Thursday, August 10, 2006

Vocab Word #1

As we discussed in class, one of your first assignments is to find a word that could add to your vocabulary. When you find a good word, please add it as a comment to this post, along with the original sentence in which the word appeared, the source of the sentence, and a short definition in your own words. Your word should be unique in the class; that is, you shouldn't post the same word as someone else. Therefore, before you post your word and definition, read through the existing comments to see if your word is there already. If it is, you need to find another word.

4 comments:

Erin O said...

FATUOUS:

"I am, of course, a mere student," said I, with a fatuous smile, "hardly more, I might say, than an earnest inquirer."
The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Fatuous meaning stupid,crazy, unintelligent, foolish..etc.

Marcus P said...

vacillating

"Lalla had always been such a certain person, so posotive, so unveering from a chosen course, That they were all thken by surprise by her vacillating indecision as to what she was going to do with her life."
-Lalla Rosamunde Pilcher

vacillating-adj.-swinging indecisively from on course of action or opinion to another

Tyler S said...

Synergy

"Progressive admires, though, hailed Pei's seventy-one-foot-tall transparent pyramid as a dazaling synergyof ancient structure and modern method- a symbolic link between the old and the new- helping usher the Louve into the next millenium"
-The Davinci Code by Dan Brown

Synergy in the interaction of two or more forces that there combined effects are greater than there individual effects.....working together to make a more powerfull team.

Alex C. said...

unequivocal

"Remember, you have to be unequivocaly sure"
-My Father said this to me when he was explaining what to do with my vocabulary homework.

Unequivocal means that you are absolutly, without doubt sure of what you are saying.

Clear; having one meaning or interpretaion