Additional Vocab Homework (for Friday)

As you read Chapter 9 in Howard Zinn´s "A People´s History," keep a vocabulary notebook with the words you don´t know. List the word in one column, meaning in another, and your own personal connection in the third column. I will give you a completion grade for your own notebook. Please post your word list in as a reply to this topic. I will try to compile a master list.

Example:

WORD MEANING CONNECTION
antediluvian before the flood (Noah and the Ark) That book is ancient,
antediluvian.
old, ancient

Please know the homework posts were all me, not Oscar! My bad! I didn´t realize my computer automatically logged him in. It won´t do that in the future.

preponderant
big amount, overwhelming
Preponderance of the evidence

2.) kinship
family ties, by family relation
kinship bonds weakened

3.) burlesque
18 century cabaret style, sensual, vulgar, cheap OR parody, satire, comedy
a burlesque costume/performance

4.) pusilanimity/pusilanimous
timid, cowardly, faintheartedness
"he's a PUSinlanimous person" - 11th grade B, you know what I mean

5.) foray (verb or noun)
raid, attack
foray into topic
forayed a village

6.) subsidize or subsidy(noun)
to sponsor, pay for part of it, to partially fund
"the UN should subsidize health programs"

7.) conniving or to connive
manipulative, scheming
"conniving bi**" sorry ms garret but this one REALLY helped!

8.) ms.garret's favorite word: behooves
would be of interest, would do you good
it behooves you to vote on Luisa for class rep

Do we have to do this on the forum?!?!

Ms Garrett, I am sorry, it seems your compúter automatically log in on my account

Ana, the list should be post on the forum, so Ms Garrett can create a huge vocab list

Here is a tool to help: http://dictionary.reference.com/

Here is my word list:

1) overseer
a person who oversees
the overseer of a plantation.

2) stern
strict, severe
stern police measures

3) contention
strife in debate; dispute; controversy.
the historians' contention about slavery impact on the blacj community

4) coalition
a combination or alliance between persons, factions, states
a new coalition of northern industrialist and southern business-planters

5) curtail
reduce; diminish
the influence of the state was curtailed

6) devout
earnest or sincere; hearty
He had a devout allegiance to the political regime.

7) deprecate
to urge reasons against; protest against
Abolitionnists deprecated slavery

1.)Catechism
-an elementary book containing a summary of the principles of the Christian religion, esp. as maintained by a particular church, in the form of questions and answers.
- He read the Catechism.

2.)Bayonet
- a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat
- He solider carried a bayonet.

3.) Jeering
- To speak or shout derisively; mock
- He was jeering the girl in front of her.

1. dissecting
To examine, analyze, or criticize in minute detail

2. bayonet
A blade adapted to fit the muzzle end of a rifle and used as a weapon in close combat

3. truancy
The act or condition of being absent without permission

4. absconding
To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution

5. insurrectionary
A person who takes part in an insurrection; rebel; insurgent

6. preponderant
superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing

1. Thwarted-
To prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment

2. Kinship-
The state or fact of being of kin; family relationship.
Relationship by nature, qualities, etc.; affinity

3. Smoulder-
To burn with little smoke and no flame.

4. Embedded-
To fix into a surrounding mass
To surround tightly or firmly

5. Preponderant-
Superior in weight, force, influence, numbers

6. Mockery-
Ridicule, contempt, or derision

pare de copiar dos outros john!

se não eu vou fazer igual

1) unravel- to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.), to free from complication or difficulty; make plain or clear; solve
-to unravel a mystery

2)garrison-to occupy (a fort, post, station, etc.) with troops, to put (troops) on duty in a fort, post, station, etc.

3) delusion- act of misleading someone
-labored under the delusion that success was at hand.

4)entail-to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence
-a loss entailing no regret

carlos seu retardado vc nao pode falar nada, vc nem fez sua anta antes de vim falar que to copiando!

thwarted- to prevent realization

pusilanimity- timid or shy, coward

absconding- run to avoid prosecution

behooves- of interest or choice