Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Word Watcher: Part 2

ok this is for pages 65-80... it's not a lot but I did what I had to...

  1. racketeer (pg 72): a person who commits crimes such as extortion, loansharking, bribery, and obsruction of justice in furtherance of illegal business activities.(this also means lovers of rackets... I find that interesting and funny.) Being a racketeer can lead to bad reputation.
  2. dinginess (pg 74): of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness. You have dinginess if you stay out in the sand too much.
  3. listlessness (pg 74): having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent. Some people might feel listlessness happens when you watch a bad TV show.
  4. ruinous (pg 77): bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous. Walking into a thunder storm is a ruinous behavior.
  5. frontispiece (pg 80): an illustration that faces or immediately procedes the title page of a book, book section, or magazine. Many children books have frontispiece as an introduction.

I hope this helped you guys (again).

4 comments:

  1. OOOPPPPPSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! I forgot the d in word :P

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  2. Thanks for all the definitions, it really helped my reading! (:

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  3. Thanks again for the meanings! :) And the examples.

    --Janet

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