Thursday, May 30, 2013

Week One Vocabulary

NOTE: As we didn't watch the interview, you are not responsible for the "John Stossel "Too Many Laws" video on the test.  We will watch and discuss this on Monday, though!

Grammar Dimensions
p211
lie lay lain (v.i.)
lay laid laid (v.t.)
to/a swoop
yolk
to soar
cramp(ed)
to oblige/obliged

p214
belligerent
a bush
malformed

216
elaborate
emphatic

217
Prometheus/
Promethean
a deity
primordial

221
one’s share of
royalty

222
chaos
to derive from
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
a spring
chimera/chimerical
a titan
Pluto

226


an ointment
play tricks on
tawny

228
an allegory
inclement

229
adversity
to preach
eloquent

231
a phobia
an epic

233
to hurl
to flee/fled/fled
disgrace
a pillar

234
grief/grief-stricken
mortal/a mortal

235
reconciliation


Raise The Issues

2-3
bear resemblance to
a fine
to stipulate
humane
a vet(erinarian)
an amateur
to crave 
to pose a danger, etc.
to soar
subject to
a violation
to detain







“on the books”
“turn a blind eye to”
to pull over
to wiggle
to confine/confinement

p5
to relieve one’s self
to romp
to duck/to duck into
“to that end”    = for that purpose
insulate
a badge
closure
“money changes hands”


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