Vocabulary: Fall List # 9

Bosom: the breast of a human being
Prudently: careful in providing for the future.
Inveterate: settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling or the like.
Propensity: a natural inclination or tendency.
Repose: to pose again.
Stripling: a youth.
Sequester:  to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement.
Apparition: a supernatural appearance of a person or thing.
Purport: to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being.
Imbibed: to consume (liquid) by drinking or drink.
Incessant: continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending.
Cognomen: any name, or a nickname.
Reverie: a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing.
Gambol: to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
Spectre: specter.
Tarry: to remain or stay, as in a place.
Hessian: a German mercenary during the Civil War era.

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The tone that's set is like all horror movies.  They start of on a regular mood and they don't seem like anything bad is going to happen.  That is until they start getting them selves in something they're not supposed to.  For example, the Blair Witch Project (trailer) started of the girl doing a couple of video logs, asking people if they've heard of the Blair Witch.  One older lady says that she has encountered with the witch and the others didn't.  It was all fine until the loose the map while they were in the woods, then that's when they start getting themselves into bad situation.  So I think that the tone in the beginning of the story is set at a normal, average day.  Then when the group starts to get curious or the main character(s) get curious, that's when the trouble starts to begin.

Midterm review/study strategy

My strategy to study for the midterm test will be to use flash cards and to review the vocabulary with the vocabulary lists that I have posted on my blog.

Vocabulary: Fall List #6

Adroit: skillful, successful or ingenious. 

Amicable: characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly. 

Averse: having a strong feeling opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc. 

Belligerent: warlike; given to waging war; of warlike character. 

Benevolent: desiring to help others; charitable. 

Cursory: going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty.; superficial. 

Duplicity: an act or instance of such deceitfulness. 

Extol: to praise highly; laud; eulogize. 

Feasible: capable of being done, effected, accomplished.

Grimace: a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc. 

Holocaust: a mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life. 

Impervious: not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable. 

Impetus: a moving force; impulse; stimulus. 

Jeopardy: hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, injury. 

Meticulous: taking or showing extreme care about minute details. 

Nostalgia: a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life. 

Quintessence: the pure and concentrated essence of a substance. 
Retrogress: to back into an earlier and usually worse condition. 
Scrutinize: to examine in detail with careful or critical attention. 
Tepid: moderately warm; lukewarm. 

Vocabulary: Fall List # 5

Allude: to refer casually or indirectly. make an allusion.
Clairvoyant: having or claiming the power to read minds.
Conclusive: serving to settle or decide a question.
Disreputable: not reputable; discreditable or dishonorable.
Endemic: natural or characteristic of a specific people or place.
Exemplary: worthy of imitation; commendable.
Fathom: to not understand the depth of someone or something.
Guile: insidious cunning in attaining a goal.
Integrity: adherence to moral or ethical principles.
Itinerary: a detailed plan for a journey, especially places to visit.
Misconstrue: to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense.
Obnoxious: annoying or objectionable due to being a showoff or attracting undue attention to oneself.
Placate: to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.
Placid: pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled.
Plagiarism: an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work.
Potent: powerful; mighty; having or exercising great power of influence.
Pretext: something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object.
Protrude: to project.
Stark: sheer, utter, downright, or complete.
Superficial: being at, on, or near the surface; shallow.

Vocabulary: Fall List #4

Melancholy: a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged.
Exemplary: worthy of imitation; commendable.
Peculiar: strange; queer; odd.
Dread: to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension.
Bough: a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.
Pious: characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion.
Communion: interchange or sharing of thoughts or emotions; intimate communication.
 Auditor: a person appointed and authorized to examine accounts and accounting records, compare the changes with the vouchers.
Multitude: a great number of people gathered together.
Eloquence: a practice of art or using language with fluency and aptness.
Despair: loss of hope; someone or something that causes hopelessness.
Hoary: gray or white with age; ancient or venerable.

Vocabulary: Fall List #3

Encomium: a formal expression of high praise; eulogy.
Coherent: logically connected, consistent; sticking together.
Belabor: to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary.
Eschew: to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid.
Acquisitive: tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily.
Emulate: to try to equal or excel. imitate with effort to equal or surpass.
Arrogate: to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously assume or appropriate to oneself without right.
Banal: devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed.
Excoriation: the act of excoriating.
Congeal: to make or become fixed, as ideas, sentiments, or principles.
Carping: characterized by fussy or petulant faultfinding.
Substantiate: to establish by proof or competent evidence.
Temporize: to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
Largess: generous bestowal of gifts; generosity.
Tenable: capable of being held, maintained, or defended against an attack or dispute.
Insatiable: incapable of being satisfied or appeased.
Reconnaissance: the act of reconnoitering.
Germane: closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent.
Ramify: to divide or spread out into branches or branchlike parts; extend into subdivisions.
Intransigent: refusing to agree or compromise.
Taciturn: inclined to silence; reserved to speech.
Invidious: calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense.

Vocabulary: Fall List #2

Intercede: to act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition. 

Hackneyed: made commonplace or trite; stale; banal.

Approbation: Official approval or sanction.

Innuendo: an indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or a derogatory nature.

Coalition: a combination or alliance, especially a temporary one between persons, factions, states, etc. 

Elicit: to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke. 

Hiatus: a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, actions, etc. 

Assuage: to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate.

Decadence: the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state.

Expostulate: to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done.

Simulate: to create a simulation, likeness or model of something. 

Jaded: dulled or satiated by overindulgence. 

Umbrage: offense; annoyance; displeasure.

Prerogative: an exclusive right or privilege, etc. 

Lurid: gruesome, horrible, revolting, terrible intensity, fierce passion. 

Transcend: to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed. 

Provincial: belonging or peculiar to some particular province. 

Petulant: moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance. 

Unctuous: Characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor especially in an affected manner. 

Meritorious: deserving reward, praise, esteem, etc.