- With your partner, select two words that you feel are both new to you.
- Submit the word within its context.
- Submit your own definition of the word after looking it up.
- Use the word in your own sentence and submit.
"From outside came the clang of horseshoes on the playing peg and the shouts of men, playing, encouraging, jeering."
Jeering- to shout or mock in a demeaning manner
The crowd was very rude as they were yelling and jeering the talent show contestants off the stage.
11 comments:
Rachel and Eryn
1. Sullenness
"She paused and her face lost it's sullenness and grew interested."
Def: Being in a pouty mood, and sulking around.
Original Sentence: "After hearing the news that her grandmother had passed away a few nights ago, Ariana spent the next few weeks with a smile on her lips but a look of sullenness in her eyes."
2. Crestfallen
"George scowled. 'I thought I told you not to tell nobody about that.' Candy was crestfallen."
Def: feelings of hurt, and rejection.
Original Sentence: "Rodney was crestfallen after he had finally got the courage to ask Melinda out, and she had turned him down."
Periscope-An important instrument in a submarine that allows the navigator to see things above the water surface. PG.99
Periscopes allow submarines to see above water level.
"A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shallows. "
Tenement- A run down, overcrowded house or apartment in a poor section of a large city. PG. 86
Usually a tenement is run down and overcrowded.
"All the guys got a horseshoe tenement goin' on."
By- Lina and Maurice.
Branden&Souza
Burlap: Definition-A natural woven fabric
Sentences: Souza used a burlap to cover his body from people
Quote: "Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them were made up with blankets and the other three showing there burlap ticking."
Sycamore: Definition-Is applied to three different types of trees
Sentence:When myself and Ryan were walking through the forest we spotted a sycamore.
Quote:"But by the pool among the mottled sycamore, a pleasant shade had fallen."
Monotonous:
Definition: boring, no enthusiasm, plain
Original sentence:" his voice was monotonous, had no emphasis."
Sentence: When the teacher was talking to us, she was talking in a monotonous tone.
Belligerently
Definition: mad, angry, upset, disappointed
Original sentence: "Now Lennie retorted belligerently, " he ain't neither."
Sentence: The teacher was belligerently at the students because they weren't doing what was told.
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Kaitlyn D.
Taira: pugnacious; Ready and up to fight; Rachel was pugnacious gabby; "His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious."
Christian: Itinerant; Traveling from one area to another; Football fans are itinerant to follow their teams; "As itinerant farm laborers, they hustle work where they can."
Yammered:
"UP the hill from the river a coyote yammered, and a dog answered from the other side of the stream."
def: a loud and continuous noise.
Taylor yammered at brooke because they were far apart and she couldn't hear her her yelling.
Morosely:
"George stared morosely at the water."
defi: person in a bad mood
Mr. Zavala morosely stared at the class because when he graded the assignments the night before, they all failed.
By:
brooke and taylor
Threshing(machine):
Sentence-They're picking up barley at the threshing machine.
Definition-machine that removes grain from plant
Original Sentence-The threshing machine removed the grain from the plant
Swampin':
Sentence-I just now finished swampin' out the washhouse.
Definition- Filled with water, or in this case...washed out comletely
Original Sentence- The boat was swamped
~Skylar & Joy
Words by Adara P and Kaitlyn M :DDD
Word 1: Reluctantly
Def: not wanting to do something; hesitant
Sentence: My friend was begging me to tell her the insulting things everyone has been saying about her, so I reluctantly told her.
Origin: Page 9 "Lennie reluctantly reached into his pocket."
Word 2: Pantomime
Def: Being clever or knowing how to show emotions and feelings from gestures or body language
Original Sentence: Anna expressed her frustration in pantomime by rubbing her forehead and heavily sighing.
Origin: Page 8 "But Lennie made and elaborate pantomime of innocence."
Dustin & Alexandra,
Bindle: A bag like carrying device.
Context: "I seen hundreds of men com side on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an', that same damn thing in their heads." Page 74.
Sentence: When Dustin came to school everyone was checking out his new bindle.
Averted: Ward off.
Sentence: "For a moment she stood over him as though waiting for him to move so that she could whip at him again; but Crooks sat perfectly still, his eyes averted everything that might be hurt drawn in." Page 81.
Sentence: Alex averted the commit from hitting Earth with her super powers.
Solitaire:(n) A card game played by one person: Austin sat alone in the corner playing solitaire
(Original Sentence):Almost automatically George shuffled the cards and laid out his solitaire hand.
Joshua Villanueva
Austin D.
Complacent(ly);
pleasant
Original Sentence;
Lennine, who had been following the conversation back and forth with his eyes, smiled complacently at the compliment
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