Sunday, October 3, 2010

D Period, Three Words!

Post three words from the reading this weekend you didn't understand along with their definition.

11 comments:

  1. Expatriate:to withdraw (oneself) from residence in or allegiance to one's native country p119
    Pedal:lever that drives a machine (eg a bicycle or sewing-machine) when pressed down by the foot or feet p120
    Foliage:(all the) leaves of a tree or plant; leaves with their stems and branches p122

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  2. Joy Wu

    ironical: showing that you really mean the opposite of what you are saying expressing.

    wade: to walk with an effort through sth, especially water or mud.

    rucksack: a large bag, often supported on a light metal frame, carried on the back and used especially by people who go climbing or walking.

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  3. Irony: n. 1.witty language used to convey insults or scorn
    2. incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
    3. a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

    Expatriate: v. 1. expel from a country
    2.move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
    n. voluntarily absent from home or country

    Arc: n. 1. electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
    2. a continuous portion of a circle
    3. something curved in shape
    v. form an arch or curve

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  4. Daniela Llinas

    sapling: young tree

    Meadow: field where grass is grown

    Pry: force for moving, separating

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  5. correspondent: One who communicates by means of letters.

    sommelier: is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, commonly working in fine restaurants

    hors d'oeuvres: food items served before the main courses of a meal

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  6. Diligent : Careful and using a lot of effort, done in a careful and detailed way.
    Splendid : Excellent or beautiful and impressive.
    Quiver : To shake slightly, often because of strong emotion.

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  7. SIFTED: -To seperate or sprinkle through or by means of a seive.

    EXPATRIATE: -TO banish from his/her country.

    SIMIAN: -Of or pertaining to an ape or monkey.

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  8. jerk:a quick, sharp, sudden movement

    gulp:swallow drink or food quickly or in a large amount

    impotent:helpless or powerless

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  9. (pg 49)Dome:noun:1. Architecture.
    2.A vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.

    (pg 39)"Che mala furtuna" (Itailen) "What Bad Luck"

    (pg 44)Foriegn Mouthpeice- a accent, shows where you originally from.

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  10. Trouty - containing or likely to contain abundant trout

    Sod - turf/ one's native land

    Beech - any of a genus of hardwood trees with smooth gray bark and small edible nuts

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  11. In chapter 18, Cohn leaves pamplona. Romero is doing pretty bad due to the conditions he has from his beeating. Brett suggest to go into a church to pray for romero and his injuries. Romero still wants to compete with the bullfighting because he is a true dedicated man to bull fighting. Romero gives brett his cape to hold during the fights. Romero fights and guides the bull that killed the man running in the street, and eventually kills it. He gives its notched ear to brett. Brett and Romero eventually leave pamplona together on a train.

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