Vocabulary
Upon the Burning of our House page 78
1.Sorrow- Sorrow is a feeling of immense sadness, like the sorrow you would feel if your best friend suddenly moved to New Zealand
2.piteous-If something's piteous, it makes you feel pity and concern. The piteous cries of the orphaned kittens under your porch might convince you to climb under there and gather them up so you could feed them.
3.shrieks-A high-pitched, piercing cry is a shriek. A common response to finding a snake curled in the silverware drawer would be to shriek
4.consume-The Freshman 15" describes freshman-year college students who gain about fifteen pounds because they consume way too much lousy dorm food all day long.
5.repine-The verb repine describes expressing gloom or discontent. Brooding, fretful, and sad — these are the traits of people who repine at their circumstances in life.
6.vanity-Vanity is the quality of being vain, or having a ridiculous amount of pride. If you have excessive vanity in your appearance, you probably spend long hours sitting at your vanity table doing your makeup or plucking your nose hairs.
7.chide- To chide someone is to ride them or get on their case, without really getting in their face.
2.piteous-If something's piteous, it makes you feel pity and concern. The piteous cries of the orphaned kittens under your porch might convince you to climb under there and gather them up so you could feed them.
3.shrieks-A high-pitched, piercing cry is a shriek. A common response to finding a snake curled in the silverware drawer would be to shriek
4.consume-The Freshman 15" describes freshman-year college students who gain about fifteen pounds because they consume way too much lousy dorm food all day long.
5.repine-The verb repine describes expressing gloom or discontent. Brooding, fretful, and sad — these are the traits of people who repine at their circumstances in life.
6.vanity-Vanity is the quality of being vain, or having a ridiculous amount of pride. If you have excessive vanity in your appearance, you probably spend long hours sitting at your vanity table doing your makeup or plucking your nose hairs.
7.chide- To chide someone is to ride them or get on their case, without really getting in their face.
1. The old teacher felt Sorrow because the people like to misplace the truth with the lies.
2.The Piteous old teacher needs to be nice because she is mean to people.
3. Sentence: Shrieks-Sharp loud noise Shrieks The old Teachers Shrieks at the kids Because they were loud.
4. Sentence: Consume- The boys are Consume people.
5. Sentence: Repine:Third-person singular simple present repines, present participle repining, simple past and past participle repined
6.Sentence: Vanity- I Vanity to say it out loud.
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7.Chide- People get Chide at there dog.
To My Dear and Loving Husband page 79
1.Surely- Use the adverb surely to emphasize your certainty about a point. For example, you could tell your friend that her painting is so good that she'll surely win the art contest.
2.Compare-To compare is to look at two things and see how they are similar and different.
3.Ought- used to indicate duty or correctness, typically when criticizing someone's actions.
4.Persevere-Use the verb persevere when you want to persist in anything and continue despite difficulties or obstacles.
5.Emptiness-Has your girlfriend left you? Your boss fired you and your dog run away from home? Then you're probably feeling a state of emptiness, a condition of meaninglessness or futility. Cheer up, you could try writing a country music song.
1.Surely- Use the adverb surely to emphasize your certainty about a point. For example, you could tell your friend that her painting is so good that she'll surely win the art contest.
2.Compare-To compare is to look at two things and see how they are similar and different.
3.Ought- used to indicate duty or correctness, typically when criticizing someone's actions.
4.Persevere-Use the verb persevere when you want to persist in anything and continue despite difficulties or obstacles.
5.Emptiness-Has your girlfriend left you? Your boss fired you and your dog run away from home? Then you're probably feeling a state of emptiness, a condition of meaninglessness or futility. Cheer up, you could try writing a country music song.
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Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God page 101
1.instincts-An instinct is something you don't need to learn — it happens naturally, without you even thinking about it. Babies cry by instinct, and ducks follow their mother by instinct.
2.fiery-When something is very hot or intense, it's fiery. That could mean a forest fire or a fiery temper.
3.wrath- Wrath is great anger that expresses itself in a desire to punish someone: Noah saw the flood as a sign of the wrath of God.
4.security- Security means safety, as well as the measures taken to be safe or protected. In order to provide adequate security for the parade, town officials often hire extra guards.
5.incensed- To be incensed is to be beyond mad. It's how you feel when fighting with your cell phone company's customer service representative whose only response is to quote company policy verbatim from a script.
1.instincts-An instinct is something you don't need to learn — it happens naturally, without you even thinking about it. Babies cry by instinct, and ducks follow their mother by instinct.
2.fiery-When something is very hot or intense, it's fiery. That could mean a forest fire or a fiery temper.
3.wrath- Wrath is great anger that expresses itself in a desire to punish someone: Noah saw the flood as a sign of the wrath of God.
4.security- Security means safety, as well as the measures taken to be safe or protected. In order to provide adequate security for the parade, town officials often hire extra guards.
5.incensed- To be incensed is to be beyond mad. It's how you feel when fighting with your cell phone company's customer service representative whose only response is to quote company policy verbatim from a script.
Instincts- A baby has Instincts to cry.
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Fiery- The teacher has a fiery tempers.
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