Wordly Wise 8 (Week 1)

demean

To cause a lowering of self-esteem; to lower in reputation or character dementors from harry potter, to be deMEAN to someone, ruining someones life either way Don't demean yourself by trying to act like those bullies.

Instill

To introduce gradually in order to establish securely to install is to put, still is calm, to calmly put so it will establish securely, not rushed and badly Juanita' love for animals was instilled in her during the summer vacations spent at her uncle's farm as a child.

simulate

To take on the qualities of another; to imitate 2. To pretend simulated- make to look genuine while being artificial simulation-an imitation of a possible situation You know simulation, to simulate would be doing exactly that. something that is simulated would be like the simulation of a genuine thing. AstroTurf simulates real grass. Simulated leather looks and feels like the real thing.

Emulate

To try to equal; to imitate reminds me of emerald, when other things to imitate an emerald because it is pretty Musicians around the world have tried to emulate Louis Armstrong's soulful trumpet playing.

profusion

a plentiful supply; a great or generous amount profuse (adj) given or occurring in generous amount; abundant A chef was PRO FUSION of French and Japanese food. And bc he combined the two, there were generous amount to satisfy a lot of customers. 1. Daffodils grew in profusion along the river bank 2. Jerry's profuse apology convinced me he was sorry he had hurt my feelings.

inkling

a slight suspicion; a vague idea "they had the slightest inkling" (they were like -.-) As she opened the door, Shala had no inkling that her friends were hidden in the darkened room, waiting to shout "Surprise" WOOOOOO

conscientious

adj. 1. Thorough; careful. 2. Honest; principled. conscious means "aware", so if a person is conscious of their surroundings, they ought to be more thorough and careful with their actions (and because they have more stuff watching them, they have to be honest) 1. Because of our conscientious preparation, the science fair was enjoyable and informative for everyone 2. Several of the students made a conscientious effort to combat hunger by working with the food bank.

profound

adj. 1. intense; deeply felt 2. having understanding or knowledge that goes beneath the surface, beyond the obvious. if you're intensely into a subject, and have a great understanding of something, you're going to have found information 1. Parents who have been separated from their children at the beginning of the war felt profound joy when they were reuinted in the refugee camp. 2. Profound insights from Thoreau and Gandhi influenced Martin Luther King Jr.'s ideas about nonviolent protest.

sage

adj. Having wisdom and good judgement noun. 1. A person known for wisdom and good judgment. 2. An aromatic grayish-green plant used in cooking if you are wise, you would know to eat plants- to make food look good with plants is like cool move adj. Ben Franklin's poor RIchard's Almanack offered sage advice to the colonists. 1. When I need advice, I consult my grandmother, the family sage. 2. Sage and onion are essential ingredients for a good turkey filling.

Proprietor

an owner of a store or other business property, property owner suffix time! things that ends in -er or -or means one who _____ The proprietor of the restaurant decided to close his establishment after losing money for eight months. ...

Gruesome

causing horror or disgust gru some, some grus; multiple grus would be horrifying and would cause disgust The book told the gruesome details of living in Europe during the time of the Black Plague.

clad

clothed or covered clad, clams are covered before they are opened to cook :( Clad in a black rubber suit, the diver jumped from the side of the rescue boat.

prevelant

commonly occurring; widely accepted or practiced p+relevant; if it is relevant, it will be commonly seen Both chicken pox and the flu were prevalent in Edison Middle School last winter.

Audacious

(adj.) bold, adventurous, recklessly daring 2. Showing disrespect or lack of courtesy audacity- willingness to take risks by showing excessive boldness when you say "wow the audacity of that GIRL"- by audacity, we mean "wow the NERVE of that GIRL" and by the NERVE, it's their excessive boldness 2. Our teacher warned us that the audacious remarks were not appropriate in a civil debate

depict

(v.) to portray; to represent or show in the form of a picture in essays, we say "this picture depicts manifest destiny" (borrrringggg) These seafaring novels depict life aboard a navy sailing ship with great accuracy.

Inventory

1. A list of possessions or goods on hand 2. The stock of goods on hand verb. to make a complete list of your inventory on minecraft, if you want to tell your partner what you have in your inventory, you will have to make a complete list of it. Before buying school supplies for the coming year, we make an inventory of all the supplies we already have. Once a year, the librarian inventories books and software in the resource center.

pivot

1. A small bar or rod on which something else turns 2. A person or thing on which others depend verb. to turn on or as if on a pivot adj. pivotal- vitally important or significant if you have to pivot, you have to rely on a bar or your feet The quarterback is the pivot of a team's offense.

Brusque

1. Abrupt in manner or speech; gruff bro-sk+i: when you reply with broski, it's abrupt in manner and speech The last admonition is characteristic, as Shammai was choleric and brusque.

turbulent

1. Chaotic; unruly 2. Stormy; tempestuous */noun/* 1. turbulence- great disturbance 2. rapid changes in wind speed and direction in the atmosphere turbo, turbulence- crazy and you can't think my brother and i tried our best to stay calm during the turbulent period our of parents' divorce.

Avid

1. Having a strong desire for; to the point of greed 2. Eager; enthusiastic avid- a vid, he was very enthusiastic about a vid, because he made it he was avid for praise from her coach.

Evoke

1. To call forth; to produce 2. To bring to mind, often by suggestion *evocative*- creating something again, especially through the imagination to evoke anger out of someone His photographs evoke the isolation and solitude of the desert.

impel

1. To drive or to propel 2. To urge or drive by force or moral pressure to repel someone, because you don't want to follow them, or do what they want you to do. the opposite of that would be to urge them to something. 1. A raging current impelled the raft downstream towards the waterfall. 2. Hatred of slavery impelled Harriet Tubman to return repeatedly to the South to help other enslaved people escape.

Encompass

1. To enclose or encircle 2. To include compass has north, west, east, south, it includes all sides, to enclose Except for one narrow pass, mountains encompass the village of Neudorf on all sides.

inaugurate

1. To install in office with a formal ceremony 2. To begin officially or mark the opening of inauguration of the president inaugurated the college's athletic program for women.

Haunt

1. To stay in one's mind continually 2. to visit frequently 3. to appear in the form of a ghost haunt (oooo scary ghost) 1. Even though I heard the song a year ago, the music continues to haunt me.

Derive

1. To take or receive from a source 2. To obtain through reasoning to dePrive is to take away, so without the p, you can take it back and receive. After practicing so diligently, Hugo derived great satisfaction from the enthusiastic applause following his performance. We derived the answer to the question by applying logic.

Electrify

1. To wire or equip with electric power 2. To thrill or shock electric, electrocution, etc to electrify with excitement As the population of India grows, the government is working hard to make sure all areas of the country are electrified. Marissa's skating performance, which included a layback spin and several perfectly executed triple axels, electrified the audience.

Disposition

1. a person's usual mood; temperament 2. a regular tendency or inclination dis position is my favorite- right in the sun and next to the window :) im usually happy when im here. People enjoy Alice's company because of her sunny disposition.

abrasion

1. a wearing away or rubbing away by friction 2. scraped or worn area abrasive- adj, 1. causing wear by rubbing 2. harsh or rough in manner; irritating erosion, abrasion, very similar when something is abrasive, then it is like rubbing away by friction, it is irritating and harsh in manner

resilient

1. capable of recovering quickly from misfortune 2. returning quickly to an original shape or condition /*noun*/ the ability to recover 2. the ability to spring back resilient rubber, if it's resistant, then it won't change pretty similar An elastic band can be resilient.

Tremulous

1. marketed by trembling or shaking 2. Timid or fearful tremble-ous; to tremble and when you tremble it is usually from fear. treadmill- shaking because you are tired after workout. 1. The little girl tried to look brave when she fell and scraped her knee but her tremulous lower lip betrayed her. 2. In a tremulous voice, Alejandro told us how he had lost our money.

generation

1. one step in the line of descent of a family 2. all the people born and living about the same time 3. the average span of time between the birth of parents and their children grandma / grandpa is one generation, mom/dad is another, anny and i are another Four generations were represented at Naomi's family reunion last summer.

succumb

1. to give up or give in to; to yield 2. to cease to exist; to die you succ and u dumb- you have to deal with that the entire year, so you just gave up. next year, that sentence died away, and you're free now. After twenty-four hours on their feet, the relief workers succumbed to exhaustion, falling soundly asleep on their cots.

embark

1. to go on board a ship or airplane at the start of a voyage 2. to start out, to begin story: a bunch of travelers go on a ship to go on a voyage. they shout to the dog, "EM! bark!". This meant they began the voyage. 1. Around 9 o' clock we embarked for a day of whale watching. 2. Lewis and Clark embarked on their expedition across America in 1804.

rebuff

1. to reject blunty 2. to drive back */noun/* an abrupt setback in progress to re- ject a buff person, because they were too cocky after rejecting, what do you do? you escape the place by driving away. 1.Our teacher rebuffed all our requests to change the deadline for the project. 2.Although the men in the Alamo were determined to rebuff Santa Anna's forces, in the end they were defeated.

Dehydrate

1. to remove the water from 2. to cause cause to lose bodily fluids to dehydrate your body and lose bodily fluids We use the oven to dehydrate apples, and then we add the dried fruit to our homemade granola.

Imperative

1. urgent; pressing 2. Having the power or authority to command It is imperative that I finish this English assignment before tomorrow's deadline.

Amiss

1.in a wrong or imperfect way 2. out of order, wrong if you miss a target, you did it in a wrong way! Don't take amiss my suggestion for improving your drawing.

Recur

1.to come again or happen again 2. to come to mind again noun. recurrence- the act of recurring to reoccur/ to recur~ similar if it comes again, then it must be on your mind again 1. The same musical themes recur throughout all movies in the series. 2. The events of the night of the concert recurred to Maddox many times during the next few weeks.

spontanious

1.unplanned and voluntary 2. Occurring or produced without human labor noun. spontaneity- the quality or condition of occurring in an unplanned way 1. The crowd burst into a spontaneous chant of "Go, go, go!" as the first two runners neared the finish line. 2. My abeulo thought the spontaneous appearance of the tomato plants was because of seeds dropped by birds. 3. With unexpected spontaneity, Isabel rose to embrace her friend.

mutiny

deliberate refusal to obey orders given by those in command especially sailors. v. to rebel openly against a commander when the sailor commander was giving him orders via zoom, he simply put him on MUTE and deliberately refused to obey. Thus, he was openly REBELLING!! 1. The 1917 mutiny by French soldiers could have caused France to lose the war. 2. We think the students might mutiny if the cafeteria does not start serving better food.

Despondent

depressed from loss of hope or confidence; utterly discourage when you're in a desert but there's no responder, you're going to be at a loss for hope. I was completely despondent that our dog had run away.

Cursory

done in a hurry and with little attention to detail with this bad work, i could CURSE you out!!! Sherlock Holmes made a cursory search of the bedroom before going into the dining room to question the family.

Consice

short and to the point consice "No shoes, No shirt, No service" is a concise way of explaining a dress code.

lackadaisical

showing little spirit or enthusiasm they LACK a DAISY in the daisy competition. they have like... no spirit!! they're showing NO enthusiasm into this great contest. when the students came after school to work on their reports, the librarian was quiet lackadaisical about enforcing the no talking rule.

Surmise

v. to suppose something without sufficient evidence n. a guess to summarize a sunrise, when you woke up too late to even see the sunrise. you have to guess what it looked like and supposed it without evidence. Heloise surmised that her visitors were late because of traffic.

Endeavor

verb. To attempt earnestly noun. a serious, earnest effort toward a goal en-de-ver; endy would never take never as an answer, therefore he will always attempt earnestly to get that yes as an answer. The person we spoke to at the school office said she would endeavor to find the papers we need.

excruciating

very painful excruciating pain She was weak and the pain was excruciating, but she was determined to go home.

modify

1) to make less extreme or severe 2) to make changes in 3) in grammar, to limit or restrict in meaning modify- you know the second definition to change in the strict rules to make less extreme a word had too many definitions, making it too difficult to talk! so they had to restrict in meaning, changing the words. 1. My parents agreed to modify my weekend curfew after I promised to study Monday- Thursday evenings. 2. The teenagers modified their language when they tutored young children after school. 3. In the phrase, the black chair, the adjective black modifies the noun chair.

Anthology

A collection of various writings, such as songs, stories, or poems

Conjecture

A conclusion based on guesswork or insufficient evidence (surmise) verb. to form an opinion while lacking sufficient evidence a math conjecture- it isn't a theorem until it's proven; it is just a conclusion without enough evidence Dad's conjecture that the derelict building would be a problem proved to be correct when it caught on fire.

Recluse

A person who lives apart from society and often alone adj. Reclusive- withdrawn from society if something is inclusive, it includes things from all angles because it is REclusive, they are withdrawn from society Ahmed became a recluse when he was trying to finish writing his book refusing to leave his apartment for days on end.

pseudonym

a pen name soo-do-nym Female British authors of the nineteenth century often had to use a male pseudonym in order to get their books published.

gingerly

CAUTIOUS; very careful adv. extremely carefully ginger- be careful not to eat the ginger instead of the chicken! Mr. Wu made a gingerly attempt to finish the science experiment without spilling the liquid.

Guile

Cunning or deceit in dealing with others; trickery a gullible person is one that gets tricked, guile is the triker The Grimm brothers vividly described the wolf's guile toward Little Red Riding Hood.

Despicable

Deserving contempt or scorn Despicable Me is hated by many, they think they deserve scorn. Stealing from the class treasury was a despicable thing to do.

Interminable

Endless; seeming to be without end in- not; to terminate is to end We had an interminable wait at the amusement park entrance because of the enormous crowds trying to get in.

Anonymous

Of an unknown source or unrevealed name anonymous We wish we could thank the person who gave this anonymous donation to our library fund.

iracscible

Quick-tempered; irritable if you're quick tempered, then everything seems erasable to you. even friends seem erasable to you when you're quick tempered. My grandfather looked kindly, but he was really quite irascible.

tirade

a long angry speech tired ade will speak a long, angry speech because of the bad lemonade they're making! We lost interest in Marmi's endless tirades about how people disrespected her.

Affable

pleasant; approachable; gracious noun. affability- friendliness of manner telling a fable- nice grannies that tells you a nighttime story Maribel's affable manner brought her many friends.

Entreat

to ask earnestly; to beg noun. entreaty; a plea or earnest request dogs BEGGING for a treat "Please, PLEASE let me have a lizard," Augustin entreated his parents, "I promise to take care of it."

reverberate

to be repeated as in a series of echoes or vibrations revibrate, re- again, and vibrations We love to hear our shouts reverberate as we ran through the old tunnel.

extricate

to free from a difficult or tangled situation intricate is very detailed and tangled the opposite of that would be extricate Extricating our bags from the bus's crowded storage area was much simpler than we thought it would be.

Grimace

to make a face expressing feelings of pain, disgust, or contempt grimace- you know this Hana grimaced when her computer froze and she realized she'd lost her book report.

corroborate

to prove evidence to make more certain; to confirm collaborate means to bring more ideas into the group Because he was standing at the stoplight when the accident occurred, Javier could corroborate the driver's statement.

confiscate

to seize, by force if necessary; to take possession to take away "IM CONFISCATING YOUR PHONE!" Ms Martinez confiscated my phone and told me I could have it back when class is over. (sad sad sad)

Abhor

to shrink from in disgust; to detest adj- abhorrent- disgusting, causing loathing ab-horrid, if it's horrid you shrink from in disgust We abhor cruelty in all its forms.

pervade

to spread throughout invade, pervade the smell of cookies pervaded throughout his grandmother's house

pilfer

to steal repeatedly small amounts or things that are of little value "I am going to steal vitamin PILLS FOR my health (2 pills a week)" Pip pilfered bread and other bits of food from the kitchen to feed the injured mouse he was caring for.