Vocabulary: Spring List 5

Brouhaha: an over excited response to something.
Cloy: to disgust or sicken someone by being so nice.
Demeanor: outward behavior.
Deference: humble submission and respect.
Enigmatic: difficult to interpret or understand.
Definitive: done or reached decisively.
Bumptious: self assertive or proud to a certain degree.
Choleric: Bad tempered or irritated.
Bulwark: a defensive wall.
Curtail: To impose restriction on.
Adamant: Refusing to be persuaded.
Profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in use of resources.
Mawkish: Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way.
Thwart: Preventing someone from accomplishing something.
Onus: Someone's duty or responsibility.
Requisite: Mass necessary for some circumstances.
Mollify: To appease the anger of someone.
Sartorial: Relating to tailoring, clothes or style of dress.
Presentiment: an intuitive feeling about the future.
Impromptu: Done without being planned.
Forbearance: Self-restraint.
Remit: To send.

Spring Vocabulary #2

Toil: hard working
Saccharine: excessively sweet or sentimental.
Gibbering: speaking rapidly or speaking gibberish.
Delinquents: neglectful or failing.
Insidious: intended to in-trap someone or something.
Strewn: to scatter or spread out.
Harlequin: conventional comedian.
Praetorian: resembling a roman guard.
Sieve: a utensil consisting of a mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids.
Veiled: in disguise.
Patronage: the act of buying something.
Kadence: the pace of something(metronome, a steady beat).
Profusions: an abundance or large quantity of something.
Vessel: a ship or large boat.
Sufussed: gradually spread through or over.
Centrifuge: a machine with a rapid spinning container.
Dentifrice: a paste or powder for cleaning the teeth(toothpaste).
Leisure: free time.
Phonograph: a record player.

Spring Post 1: Music is Literature

I think Music can be considered music. If you think about it, they're pretty similar to each other. The difference between a novel/poem and a rap or a song is that the rap is in a music form. The only difference I see is that one has tone/noise/sound to it and the other doesn't. Most songs usually have a story behind the sound. If you actually read the lyrics instead just listening to the music, you'll see that the song is a story. So music can be considered Literature.

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.