Showing posts with label Vocab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vocab. Show all posts

Monday, April 28, 2008

shmockin 7, 8 , 9

Word: Loomed
Context: It explains that a child is feeling a sort of mood and it goes on to explain it more in the sentences after.
Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Loomed
Sentence: The sun had loomed right through the shades in my room this morning.


Word: Domestic
Context: It is used in the context of how the family is run. I have had it as a vocabulary word before.
Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/domestic
Sentence: The family had been through enough so they decided it was about time to get domestic and start over with their lives.


Word: Stigmatized
Context: Putting an emphasis on how the family really felt about the divorces.
Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stigmatized
Sentence: I was stigmatized when i found out that my dad had given away the dogs.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

shmockin 4,5,6

Word: Notoriously
Context: The sentence that it is used in, explains the word a little bit but the sentences that surround the word help identify the meaning.
Sentence: She was notoriously late her english class.
Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/notoriously


Word: Impeding
Context: The meaning was very obvious, and i have had it as a vocabulary word last semester.
Sentence: Mike was known to always imped in Shanley and my conversation no matter what we were talking about.
Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/impeding

Word: Converge
Context: they were discussing a meeting of some sort and the meaning was obvious.
Sentence: I went up to kaitlin and converged the situation with her ex-boyfriend Christopher.
Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Converge

Monday, March 31, 2008

shmockin 3

Word: Interject
Context: The sentence before the one with the word and the sentence the word is in, helps express the meaning to the word.
Sentence: I told my cheer girls to interject themselves with Varsity squads but they were to shy.
Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interject

shmockin 2

Word: Ambiguity
Context: This word is not explained in the sentence that it is placed in, but the prior sentence explains the meaning of the word more clear.
Sentence: Most of my grandmother and my conversations end with me being a bit ambiguity on what we just discussed because i do not understand her spanish.
Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambiguity

shmockin 1

Word: Interrogation
Context: The sentence that it is used in explains the meaning clearly, and uses a clue word which is meeting.
Sentence: My brother had an interrogation with the man who stole the old man's bike.
Definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interrogation