Friday, April 26, 2013

Vocab 8

1) word: disparity
    pronunciation: [dih-spar-i-tee]
    word origin: Middle French<Late Latin
    definition: inequality
    word used on the web: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disparity
    

2) word: forestall
    pronunciation: [fohr-stawl, fawr-]
    word origin: Middle English<Old English
    definition: to prevent by action in advance
    word used on the web: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forestall
    

3) word: insidious
    pronunciation: [in-sid-ee-uh s]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: deceitful
    word used on the web: http://vocabulary-vocabulary.com/dictionary/insidious.php
    

4) word: insinuate
    pronunciation: [in-sin-yoo-eyt]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: to suggest
    word used on the web: http://thesaurus.com/browse/insinuate
    

5) word: interrogate
    pronunciation: [in-ter-uh-geyt]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: to examine by questions
    word used on the web: http://www.interrogate.com/
    

6) word: obsequious
    pronunciation: [uh-b-see-kwee-uh s]
    word origin: Late Middle English<Latin
    definition: obedient
    word used on the web: http://www.yourdictionary.com/obsequious
    

7) word: omnipotent
    pronunciation: [om-nip-uh-tuh nt]
    word origin: Middle English<Latin
    definition: infinite in power
    word used on the web: http://www.answers.com/topic/omnipotent
    

8) word: opportune
    pronunciation: [op-er-toon, -tyoon]
    word origin: Late Middle English<Latin
    definition: appropriate
    word used on the web: http://opportune.com/
    

9) word: permeate
    pronunciation: [pur-mee-eyt]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: to pass into
    word used on the web: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/permeate
    

10) word: retribution
      pronunciation: [re-truh-byoo-shuh n]
      word origin: Middle English<Middle French<Late Latin
      definition: requital according to merits or deserts
      word used on the web: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/retribution
      

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Fahrenheit 451 Vocab 2

1) word: fervor
    pronunciation: [fur-ver]
    word origin: Middle English<Anglo-French<Latin
    definition: intense heat
    pg. 37
    sentence: "In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel."
    word used on the web: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fervor
    

2) word: ravenous
    pronunciation: [rav-uh-nuh s]
    word origin: Middle English<Old French
    definition: famished
    pg. 41
    sentence: "His hands were ravenous. And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything."
    word used on the web: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ravenous
    

3) word: jargon
    pronunciation: [jahr-guh n, -gon]
    word origin: Middle English<Middle French<Old French
    definition: meaningless talk
    pg. 42
    sentence: "She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nusery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word paterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air."
    word used on the web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon
    

4) word: pantomime
    pronunciation: [pan-tuh-mahym]
    word origin: Latin<Greek
    definition: significant gesture without speech
    pg. 46
    sentence: "He could only pantomime, hoping she would turn his way and see him. They would not touch through the glass."
    word used on the web: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797050-pantomime
    

5) word: saccharine
    pronunciation: [sak-er-in, -uh-reen, -uh-rahyn]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: sugary
    pg. 81
    sentence: "He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn't making veil references to certain commercial products that every worshiper absolutely needs."
    word used on the web: http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/aspartame-saccharine/
    

6) word: filigree
    pronunciation: [fil-i-gree]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: very delicate
    pg. 103
    sentence: "It was a good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice at first scolding him and then consoling him in the late hour of night as he emerged from the steaming subway toward the firehouse world."
    word used on the web: http://filigreecharleston.com/
    

7) word: verbiage
    pronunciation: [vur-bee-ij]
    word origin: French<Middle French
    definition: style of expressing something in words
    pg. 107
    sentence: "...'The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.' "
    word used on the web: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/do-we-really-need-%E2%80%9Cverbiage%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cverbage%E2%80%9D/
    

8) word: litterateur
    pronunciation: [lit-er-uh-tur]
    word origin: French
    definition: a literary person
    pg. 119
    sentence: " 'Go ahead now, you second-hand litterateur, pull the trigger.' "
    word used on the web: http://thesaurus.com/browse/litterateur
  

9) word: liquefaction
    pronunciation: [lik-wuh-fak-shuh n]
    word origin: Late Middle English<Late Latin
    definition: the process of making liquid
    pg. 119
    sentence: "There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam."
    word used on the web: http://www.ce.washington.edu/~liquefaction/html/what/what1.html
    

10) word: juggernaut
      pronunciation: [juhg-er-nawt, -not]
      word origin: Hindi<Sanskirt
      definition: any large, overpowering, destructive force
      pg. 140
      sentence: "He saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him."
      word used on the web: http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Juggernaut
     





Thursday, April 11, 2013

Fahrenheit 451 Vocab 1


1) word: refracted
    pronunciation: [ri-frakt-id]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: to reflect light   
    pg. 11
    sentence: "Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted their own light at you?"
    word used on the web: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Refracted
   

2) word: coattails
    pronunciation: [koht-teylz]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: the back of the skirt on a man's coat or jacket
    pg. 17
    sentence: "Everyone using everyone else's coattails."
    word used on the web: http://www.coattailsllc.com/
   

3) word: lozenge
    pronunciation: [loz-inj]
    word origin: Middle English<Middle French<Old French
    definition: a small, flavored tablet
    pg. 18
    sentence: " 'I don't know anything any more,' he said, and let a sleep lozenge dissolve on his tounge."
    word used on the web: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lozenge
   

4) word: proboscis
    pronunciation: [proh-bos-is, -kis]
    word origin: Latin<Greek
    definition: a nose   
    pg. 25
    sentence: "Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped by gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine."
    word used on the web: http://thesaurus.com/browse/proboscis
    

5) word: procaine
    pronunciation: [proh-keyn]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: spinal anesthetic
    pg. 25
    sentence: "Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped by gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine."
    word used on the web: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/procaine.html
   

6) word: proclivities
    pronunciation: [proh-kliv-i-tee-z]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: natural tendency
    pg. 33
    sentence: "Were all fireman picked then for their looks as well as their proclivities?"
    word used on the web:  https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/proclivity
   

7) word: cellophane
    pronunciation: [sel-uh-feyn]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: a transparent, paperlike product of viscose, impervious to moisture, germs, etc., used to wrap and package food, tobacco, etc.
    pg. 33
    sentence: "Captain Beatty there, rising in thunderheads of tobacco smoke, Beatty opening a fresh tobacco packet, crumpling the cellophane into a sound of fire."
    word used on the web: http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Cellophane.htm
   

8) word: rollick
    pronunciation: [rol-ik]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: to act in a carefree manner
    pg. 36
    sentence: "Next thing they were up in musty blackness swinging silver hatchets at doors that were, after all, unlocked, tumbling through like boys all rollick and shout."
    word used on the web: http://rollickclothing.com/
    

9) word: centrifuge
    pronunciation: [sen-truh-fyooj]
    word origin: French<Neo-Latin
    definition: an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force, separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
    pg. 45
    sentence: "When it was all over he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge, and spat out over a waterfall that fell and fell into emptiness and emptiness and never....."
    word used on the web: http://www.centrifugesystems.com/
    

10) word: cacophony
      pronunciation: [kuh-kof-un-nee]
      word origin: Neo-Latin<Greek
      definition: frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand
      pg. 45
      sentence: "You drowned in music and pure cacophony."
      word used on the web: http://www.cacophony.org/