Thursday, January 28, 2010

Word Watcher: Post 1

Hey, you guys! It's me Opal. :D This was suppose to be posted up yesterday or today morning but my internet was acting weird do I couldn't. I can't do it as fast because (as I said before) sometimes my computer goes crazy but I got some words that caught my eyes. I wasn't sure what a word watcher was suppose to do but I heard that a word watcher is suppose to look up words and make sentences with it. But here it is! (It's for pages 1-65)

  1. oblong (pg 2): elongate, usually from the square or circular form. The cheese oblonged off the pizza.
  2. sanguine (pg 2): cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident. The new kid in school walked sanguinely down the hallway.
  3. ramify (pg 4): to divide or spread out into branched or branchlike parts; extend into subvixions. There are laws ramify into many differnt types.
  4. slummy (pg 6): not in the dictionary. If anyone knows, please tell me because now I'm curious.
  5. porpoise (pg 8): any of several small, gegarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific. Whales and dolphins are common porpoises.
  6. jewess (pg 8): a Jewish girl or woman. "There comes the jewess, Abby," said a mean 10 years old girl.
  7. burrow (pg 8): a hole or tunnel in the ground madde by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refudge. We saw the rabbit's round tail peeking out of the burrow.
  8. physique (pg 11): physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development. The physique of a football player is buff and strong.
  9. telescreen (pg 2): a television screen, especially, a large one suitable for viewing by large number of people. When we looked into the telescreen, there was a picture of a big bear.
  10. renegade (pg 11): a person who deserts a party or cause for another. After the fight, we knew that she was going to renegade us for a long time.
  11. turf (pg ): a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots. We examined the turf and found interesting plants and roots.
  12. zealot (pg 28): a person who shows a lot of zeal (zeal: fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desireor endeavor; enthusiatic diligence; ardor). Just before the marking period ends many student turn zealot so they can achieve the last minute grade "fix-up".
  13. annihilate (pg 27): to reduce, to utter, ruin, or nonexistance; destroy utterly. The atomic bomb was an annihilation to the town.
  14. unalterable (pg 30): not capable of being altered, changed, or modified. Making a unalterable mistake can be a habbit or just personalility.
  15. boughs: a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches. The boughs can scare you at nights when you are alone.
  16. shrewish: having the desposition of a shrew (shrew: a women of violent temper and speech; termagant). I sometimes show the shrewish side of me.
  17. collate (pg ): to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheet of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc). When you have a lot of files, wou must collate them to be organized.
  18. pneumatic (pg 43): of or pertaining to air, gases, or wind. The pneumatic tube in the tank was broken.
  19. cubicle (pg 42): a small space or compartment partitioned off. The drawer was full of cubicles for small tools.
  20. gin (pg 18): an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries. A girl tried a sip of gin and walked away with a sickening expression.
  21. saccharine (pg 50): of the nature of or resembling that of sugar. The secret powder had a saccharine taste.
  22. pannikin (pg 50): a small pan or metal cup. The warm soup was made and poured into a pannikin.
  23. subsidiary (pg 52): serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary. (sorry guys, I can't think of a sentence for this)
  24. strident (pg 53): making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking. The teacher made a strident noise by scratching the chalkboard to get the class' attention.
  25. ill-omened (pg 55): having or attended by bad omen; ill-starred (omen: anything percieved or happening that is believed to prtend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; potent. ill-starred: doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky). Some religion believe that people are born being ill-omened or become ill-omened.
  26. inscrutable (pg 60): incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable. If you did nothing wrong, there's no point of being inscrutable.
  27. proliferate (pg 60): to grow or produce by muliplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation. Cancer is when cells proliferate abnormally.
  28. bombardment (pg 60): to attack or batter with artillery fire. Someone holded up a bombardment as a weapon.
  29. alluring (pg 64): very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive. The warm apple pie was alluring when I'm not allowed to eat them before dinner.
  30. debauchery (pg 65): excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure; intemperance. The smell of Thanksgiving dinner was very debauchery.

(i got all the definitions from dictionary.com)

I know I didn't read all 100 pages but I did something :D Hope this helps you guys.

5 comments:

  1. Thank you so much Opal for all those words! I found this book difficult to read with all the words I didn't understand but, this definitely made my life easier!

    -Michelle Xia (:

    P.S. I marked this 'interesting' teehee! (:

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  2. Thanks Opal! I agree with Michelle, there was a lot of hard words. And those sentences that you made really helped me know how to use the word in a sentence.

    -- Janet :)

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  3. Heehee no problem you guys... I'm working on my next one so wait and see what OPAL can do :D

    -Opal Lim

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  4. According to urbandictionary.com, slummy means:

    Loose change, coins.
    This machine only takes coins. Got any slummy, mate?
    it originated or is used in Liverpool, UK, which makes sense because this story is set in London.

    Really useful, these words are way beyond my vocabulary list.

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  5. Yeah, I really feel that this book had a lot of vocabulary words that I didn't know. '

    SAT HELP!

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