Vocab 9/24

Exempt: verb (used with object)
1.
to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release: to exempt a student from an examination.
–adjective
2.
released from, or not subject to, an obligation, liability, etc.: organizations exempt from taxes.
–noun
3.
a person who is exempt from an obligation, duty, etc.
4.
(in Britain) exon

Context Clues: Respect all religions

Sentence from: "Funny in Farsi"(pg 105) "The christian and Jewish students at my school were exempt from religious studies, a fact that caused much envy among the rest of us"

My sentence: I was exempt from class today.

Lucrative:–adjective
profitable; moneymaking; remunerative

Context Clues: N/A

Sentence from "Funny in Farsi"(pg 123) " I didn't want to get on her bad side early on in this lucrative job so I smiled as I tried to untangle her arms."

My Sentence: My up and coming job is very lucrative.

Gendarmes: noun, plural -darmes
1.
a police officer in any of several European countries, esp. a French police officer.
2.
a soldier, esp. in France, serving in an army group acting as armed police with authority over civilians.
3.
(formerly) a cavalryman in charge of a French cavalry squad

Context Clues: sifting through my suitcase

Sentence from "Funny in Farsi"(pg 133) " The gendarmes started sifting through the clothes and the myriad of gifts I had brought for my host family."

My Sentence: When my friends and I went to France, we saw lots of gendarmes.

Reflection Post

The impact of all these vocabulary words have had on me is making me aware of my use of words.This course in reading is not only for reading for me, but also for Theatre, English, math, science etc. It has effected my daily life from the train conductor to radio annoucers using unknown and known vocabulary. The current words that I have now been recognized with beautiful words surround me like ubiquitous. This particular word is always being used by the conductor on the train along with awry, queer and diabolical. He gives me my word of the day everyday of the week. When I see a word nowadays, I tend to stop and look them up right then or if I don't have a dictionary present I mark the word and look at it later. I try to use the techniques that are shown in class to make my experience in reading more effective. I have to admit, I don't use a lot of these words in my vocabulary. If I do use these atrocious words they are usually out of context. I am trying to use them in the correct context when I want to show off to my friends and family. Learning and using these new vocabulary words make me feel better. Though once the test comes I would freak out about the definition and context clues and screw them all up. I know the words that need to be known but like a car accident between a cement truck and an SUV, my mind just explodes with all that is on the page. Overall, it may take me awhile to get some more words into my daily life but I am doing the best I can. I will continue learning new words from now to enternity, well until I die.

9/17/09 Words of the Day!!!!

Dote: verb (used without object) Also, doat.
1.
to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually (usually fol. by on or upon)
2.
to show a decline of mental faculties, esp. associated with old age.

Sentence from "Funny in Farsi" (pg.103): "Now whenever we visit my relatives, all of whom dote on my husband, I realize that he didn't marry me despite my tribe, he married me because of them."

Context Clues: N/A
My Sentence: They dote on their youngest daughter.

Enviable:–adjective
worthy of envy; very desirable: an enviable position.

Sentence from "Funny in Farsi" (pg 98): "Even though their condominium has only a tiny garden, they managed to cultivate an enviable cornucopia of figs, pomegranates, sweet lemons, and herbs."

Context clues: A. Cultivate
B. wonderful

My Sentence: I have an enviable outlook on my goal in life.

Strewn:verb (used with object), strewed, strewn
1.to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed.
2.
to cover or overspread (a surface, place, etc.) with something scattered or sprinkled: to strew a floor with sawdust.
3.
to be scattered or sprinkled over (a surface): Sawdust strewed the floor.
4.
to spread widely; disseminate: to strew rumors among the troops.

Sentence from "Funny in Farsi"(pg. 113): " To my delight, I found that the lawn had been strewn with miniture Iranian flags."

Context Clues: A. miniture Iranian flags

My Sentence: My neighbor has a strewn of flowers in her front yard.

Vocab week 9/8

Bucolic: Adj. Pastrol, ruralistic 1. of or characteristic of the countryside or its people

Syn. rural

Sentence from "Funny in Farsi" pg. 31: "Or we'd try to become more bucolic, mentioning being south of the beautiful Caspian Sea, 'where the famous caviar comes from.'



Context clues: A. try to be

B. Is a simple form to live expressing rural contry and life to be

Our Sentence: A. We went through a bucolic neighborhood.

B. I was very surprised that we saw children in such bucolic streets.

Dubious: Adj. Uncertain or questionable

Sentence from "Funny in Farsi" pg. 10: "My brother Farshid, with his schedule full of soccer, wrestling and karate, was too busy to be recruited for his dubious honor."

Context clues: The young women that got pregnant two times and had two children in each pregancy was uncertain.

Our Sentence: A. I was dubious on what to get for lunch.

B. I was dubious on which movie to rent tonight.

Ubiquitous: Adj; Excisting or being everywhere at the same time; at the same time[omnipresent]

Sentence from "Funny in Farsi"pg.42: " The media is also ubiquitous present in airports, elevators, classrooms, bars and restraurants, and hospital waiting rooms."

Context clues: A. Present

B. Its an adjective that is always present in anytime.

Our Sentence: A. The ubiquitous swarm of mosquitoes blanketed the sky.

B. We were offered the ubiquitous hamburger.

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Atrocious[Adj] Extremely savage or evil, cruel. 2. Exceptionally bad abominable atrocious decor, disgraceful, grossly offensive.

[Adv] atrociousness N.



Context Clues: N/A but my logic is that it is disgussing or gross, my Mom used it in describing my room, stuffed birds are gross and dirty; like taxidermy



(44, in Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh DuMas) " The items he has picked up on clearance tables range from merely useless, like his portable siren, to truly atrocious, like birds made of felt"



My use of the word: A. What an atrocious hat!

B. The service in the restraunt was atrocious.



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