A Dream Within A Dream

In the first paragraph i think man is talking about how he is kissing his loved one (maybe a girlfriend) goodbye and he is saying that he didn't leave because of her, he left because of himself. On the second paragraph the man is crying and regretting his disition about leaving her.

Vocabulary: Fall List #6

Adroit: skillful/ It wasn't as adroit as last week's best-ever episode, but it was a solid follow up.

 Amicable: characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly/ Contrary to other meetings you may have experienced recently, ours will be amicable.

 Averse: having a strong feeling of opposition/ He's remarkably averse to conflict, pruning the toxic people from his life

 Belligerent: of warlike character/ Have students discuss whether it is reasonable to disarm a former enemy belligerent.

 Benevolent: characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings/ When things go swimmingly, few people seem to mind being run by benevolent autocrats.

 Cursory: going rapidly over something, without noticing details/ And even a cursory look at his gallery of work makes its stealth and subversiveness abundantly clear.

 Duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct/ Its pattern of duplicity extended into the instant proceeding.

 Extol: to praise highly/ Occidentalists extol soul or spirit but despise intellectuals and intellectual life.

 Feasible: capable of being done/ Labour rates must be at financially feasible levels.

 Grimace: a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc./ The intensity of his concentration was clear in his grimace.

 Holocaust: a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire./ Many people lost their lives in a holocaust.

 Impervious: not permitting penetration or passage/ Sam did not feel the punches or kicks, completely impervious to pain.

 Impetus: a moving force; impulse; stimulus/ Creating more time is the impetus behind many new technologies that allow listeners to pick up the pace.

 Jeopardy: hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury/ For a moment his life was in jeopardy.

 Meticulous: taking or showing extreme care about minute details/ A meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.

 Nostalgia: a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life/ As you can imagine, the combined might of the property's legacy and personal nostalgia tends to complicate matters significantly.

 Quintessence: the most perfect embodiment of something./ The formulation of harmonic quintessence and a fundamental energy equivalence equation.

 Retrogress: to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition/Fluctuations can cause cut-off date movement to slow, stop, or even retrogress.

 Scrutinize: to examine in detail with careful or critical attention./ Consumers are advised to closely scrutinize any lock agreement and ask their mortgage company to explain the terms of the lock.

 Tepid: moderately warm/ The reception is familiar: tepid applause from an audience that seems resigned rather than enthusiastic.

Journal September 12, 2012

            While i was writing the essay, I noticed that i had to think a lot more as i went on because i didn't finish the story. For me I didn't think that it was impossible but it was challenging because I didn't have as much information as someone who finished reading the story and i had to stretch some things out. What i learned from this that I will use later on in school and in life is to always be prepared to work on an assignment no matter what it may be because if you are not prepared, your work will suffer for it.

Vocabulary: Fall List #4

Melancholy: Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloomy/ He had no formal education, and suffered from depression and melancholy all his life.

Exemplary: Worthy of imitation; commendable/The quality has varied, form exemplary to star-chamber.

Peculiar: Strange; uncommon; odd; unusual/ They promise an unprecedented look at the history of these peculiar structures in both birds and non-avian dinosaurs.

Dread: To fear greatly/ I dreaded the thought of being dead.

Bough: A branch of a tree/ The hummingbird feeder hanged form its lowest bough.

Pious: Having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or and earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations/ Twain was righteous without being pious, and angry for all the right reasons and funny in all the right ways.

Communion: A group of persons having a common religious faith/ The whole communion got together to search for the meteor the crash landed.

Auditor: A person appointed and authorized to examine accounts and accounting records/ When an auditor departs, the investors deserve to know why.

Multitude: A great number of people gathered together/ A multitude of people gathered around the boy who had talent.

Eloquence: The practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness/ His word are remembered for their eloquence and honestly and his actions reflect the strength of his convictions.

Despair: Loss of hope/ The man felt a when he lost his family.

Hoary: Gray or white with age/ The tips of many hairs are white, giving and overall frosted, hoary appearance.

Vocabulary: Fall List #3

1. Encomium:  Glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise/ Bruce Lee was encomiumed for the way he thought and the way he fought.

2. Coherent:  Having clarity or intelligibility/ He proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.

3. Belabor:  To attack verbally, to explain or insist on excessively/ Her habit of belaboring the obvious makes her a very boring speaker.

4. Eschew:  To avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds/ They now eschew the violence of their past.

5. Acquisitive: Strongly desirous of acquiring and possessing/ Acquisitive developers are trying to tear down the historic home and build a shopping mall.

6. Emulate: To strive to equal or excel/ She grew up emulating her sports heros.

7. Arrogate: To claim or seize without justification/ They’ve arrogated to themselves the power to change the rules arbitrarily.

8. Banal: Lacking originality/ He made some banal remarks about the weather.

9. Excoriation: To wear off the skin of/ He was excoriated as a racist.

10. Congeal: To change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold/ The gravy began to congeal in the pan.

11. Carping: Marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism/ I was carped by many people.

12. Substantiate: To establish by proof or competent evidence/ Mr. MacGregor couldn’t substantiate that it was Peter, and not some other rabbit.

13. Temporize: To act to suit the time or occasion: yield to current or dominant opinion/ Pressured by voters on both sides of the issue, the congressmen temporized.

14. Largesse: Liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior/ He relied on the largesse of friends after he lost his job.

15. Tenable: Capable of being held, maintained, or defended/ The soldiers’ encampment on the open plain was not tenable, so they retreated to higher ground.

16. Insatiable: Incapable of being satisfied/ Her desire for knowledge was insatiable.

17. Reconnaissance: A preliminary survey to gain information; especially: an exploratory military survey of enemy territory/ There are two helicopters available for reconnaissance.

18. Germane: Being at once relevant and appropriate/ My personal opinion isn’t germane to our discussion of the facts of the case.

19. Ramify: To split up into branches or constituent parts/ The rise of cable television ramified the audience.

20. Intransigent: Characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude/ He has remained intransigent in his opposition to the proposal.

21. Taciturn: Temperamentally disinclined to talk/ A somewhat taciturn young man.

22. Invidious: Tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy/ The boss made invidious distinctions between employees.