Sunday, September 20, 2015

Vocabulary #2

1.Tedious (pg.39) ­adj. 

            ○ "Nothing radical, no hothead stuff, just ringing a few doorbells for Gene
McCarthy, composing a few tedious, uninspired editorials for the campus
newspaper." (paragraph 2) 
            ○ Example: "Nothing radical, no hothead stuff" 
            ○ Explain: because being tedious is usually long and boring so by not being radical
it must not be interesting. 
            ○ My math teacher was very tedious with his lecture.
2. Smug (pg.39) ­adj. 
            ○ "Stupidly, with a kind of smug removal that I can't fathom, I assumed that the
problems of killing and dying did not fall within my special province." (Paragraph 2
           ○ Example: "removal that I can't fathom" ○ Explain: some people's pride can be annoying and he can't fathom it" 
           ○ After my mom was honored for her hard work during an event she was feeling of
smug. 
3. Vigil (pg.53) ­noun
           ○ "...to guide me across the river and to take me to the edge and to stand a kind of vigil as I chose a life for myself." (Paragraph 3)
           ○ Example: "stand a kind" 
           ○ Explain: because vigil means to be awake during a time of sleep most people
can't sleep standing so by him standing he wouldn't be able to sleep."
           ○ In order to see the meteor shower we had to keep a vigil.

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