VOCABULARY: FALL LIST #2

 1. Intercede: To plead on another's behalf.
 2. Hackneyed:  Used so often as to be trite, dull, and stereotyped.

 3. Approbation: An expression of warm approval; praise.
 4. Innuendo: An indirect or subtle, usually derogatory implication in expression; an insinuation.
 5. Coalition: An alliance, especially a temporary one, of people, factions, parties, or nations.
 6. Elicit: To bring or draw out (something latent); educe.
 7. Hiatus: A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break.
 8. Assuage:  To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe.
 9. Decadence:  A process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline, as in morals or art; decay.
 10. Expostulate: To reason earnestly with someone in an effort to dissuade or correct; remonstrate.
 11. Simulate: To have or take on the appearance, form, or sound of; imitate.
 12. Jaded: Worn out; wearied
 13. Umbrage: Offense; resentment
 14. Prerogative: An exclusive right or privilege held by a person or group, especially a hereditary or official right.
 15. Lurid: Causing shock or horror; gruesome.
 16. Transcend: To pass beyond the limits of.
 17. Provincial: Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated.
 18. Petulant:  Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
 19. Unctuous:  Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

 20. Meritorious: Deserving reward or praise; having merit.

Young Goodman Brown Questions

·        When the author wrote, "Then God bless youe!" said Faith, with the pink ribbons..." why did the author just write only about those pink ribbons at that time, do they indicate how beautiful she is, are they a symbol for the chief's wife or are they just a fashion statement. 

·        Why is the chief, her wife and possibly the rest of the village so obsessed with angels, demons, spirits, and other things like that? They talk about them a lot.  Did they ever encounter a supernatural phenomenon before, or where they told about the supernatural by their ancestors and now believe what they believed.

·         Who was the traveler, who were his family members, what was his past like.

Vocab Quiz

     Some of my reasons for taking this course are to burgeon my English skills and to obtain more information. I adumbrate that this school year will be difficult but i need to be more ascetic about school and my academic life. Another reason I chose this course was to see how helpful is this new blog work going to workout. To try out this new way of presenting my material.
   
     This year I am excited about beguiling on the blog because I have never used or had a blog before and it seems like fun.  And I want to complement people on their blogs.  I am nervous of being bauble to others, my goal this year is to not be contumacious.
   
     Throughout this course I want to be didactic by my instructor and to expand my knowledge beyond what I already know, and to help out the kids that are curmudgen.