Thursday, April 25, 2013

Disparity-[dih-spar-i-tee]-lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference:
noun
middle french
Sentance: They would have been a perfect couple if it was not for thier age disparity.

forestall-[fohr-stawl, fawr-]-to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance
verb
middle english
Sentance: Stricter sentancing for drug use will help forestall the growing drug problem.


Insidious-[in-sid-ee-uhs]-intended to entrap or beguile
adjective
latin
Sentance: Drinking laundry detergent can have an insidious effect on a person's vital organs.


insinuate-[in-sin-yoo-eyt]-to suggest or hint slyly
verb
latin
Sentance: Mindy giving Martha a hug and asking her how she had been, insinuated that they were friends.


interrogate- [in-ter-uh-geyt]-to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
verb
latin
Sentance: The detective interrogated the supect about what happened the night of the murder.


obsequious-[uhb-see-kwee-uhs]-characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning:
noun
late middle english
Sentance: The obsequious servent never got to leave the plantation in his life, but is grand son is now a buisness man.


omnipotent- [om-nip-uh-tuhnt] -almighty or infinite in power, as God.
adjective
middle english
Sentance: Although each religion is different, most believe in an omnipotent power.


opportune- [op-er-toon, -tyoon] -appropriate, favorable, or suitable
adjective
late middle english
Sentance: Winning the lottery could not have come at a more opportune time for Jim because hs daughter was starting college in the fall.


permeate- [pur-mee-eyt] -to pass into or through every part of
verb
latin
Sentance: To clean water, it must permeate throw a long process of filters.


retribtion-[re-truh-byoo-shuhn]-requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
noun
middle english
Sentance:People used to behave themselves for fear of retribution in Hevan.

Friday, April 19, 2013

ravenous-[rav-uh-nuhs]-extremely hungry; famished; voracious
Middle english
Ajective
(pg 41)
Sentance: His hands were ravenous.


jargon-[jahr-guhn, -gon]-unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish
Middle English
Noun
(pg 42)
Sentance: She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.


Unitarians-[yoo-ni-tair-ee-uhn]-a person who maintains that God is one being, rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity.
neo-Latin
adjective
(pg 57)
Sentance: Don't step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers. doctors, lawyers, merchants, cheifs, Mormones, Baptists, Unitarians, Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, people from Oregon or Mexico.
 

meloncholy-[mel-uhn-kol-ee]-a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
Middle English
Noun
(pg 62)
Sentance: Don't let the torrent of meloancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.
receptable- [ri-sep-tuh-kuhl]-a container, device, etc., that receives or holds something
Middle english
noun
(pg 82)
Sentance: Books were the only one type of recepticle where we stored a lot of thins we were afriad we might forget.
arsonists-[ahr-suh-nist]-a person who commits arson
Noun
(pg 85)
Sentance - So that seed of suspicion would be sown among these arsonists, bravo, I'd say!
praetorian- [pree-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr-]-of or pertaining to a praetor.
Late MIddle English
Adjective
(pg 86)
Sentance: They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue.
valise-[vuh-lees or, esp. British, -leez]-a small piece of luggage that can be carried by hand, used to hold clothing, toilet articles, etc.; suitcase; traveling bag.
noun
french
(pg 114)
She shoved the valise in the waiting beetle, climbed in, and sat mumbling, "Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now."

wielding-[weeld]-to exercise (power, authority, influence, etc.), as in ruling or dominating.
Middle English
verb
(pg 114)
Sentance: Montag drifted about as if still another imcomprehensible storm had turned him, to see Stoneman and Black wielding axes.
excursions-[ik-skur-zhuhn, -shuhn]-a short trip or outing to some place, usually for a special purpose and with the intention of a prompt return
Noun
Latin
(pg 123)
Sentance: He tried to piece it all together, to go back to the normal pattern of life a few short days ago before the sieve and the sand, Denham's Dentifrice, moth voices, fireflies, the alarms and excursions, too much for a few short days.

trajectory-[truh-jek-tuh-ree] -the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.
Noun
Neo-Latin
(pg 127)
Sentance: The beetle came up in a single whistling trajectory, fired from and invisible rifle.


attendants-[uh-ten-duhnt]-a person who attends another, as to perform a service
Middle English
Noun
(pg 125)
Sentance: The men in the beetles were talking and the attendants were talking about engines, the gas, the money owed.