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VOCABULARY 10

VOCABULARY 10. 11 TH Grade . Tangible. Does tangible mean A variation of the tangerine A new, tangy taste Existing materially A hands on computer. I can see and touch this building!. Salacious. Produces sexual excitement Helps to digest food A salsa-type dance

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VOCABULARY 10

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  1. VOCABULARY 10 11TH Grade

  2. Tangible • Does tangible mean • A variation of the tangerine • A new, tangy taste • Existing materially • A hands on computer I can see and touch this building!

  3. Salacious • Produces sexual excitement • Helps to digest food • A salsa-type dance • Foods that produce excess saliva

  4. Quagmire Does quagmire mean • Type of gem stone • A type of quicksand • A difficult situation • An easily handled situation This could be BAD!

  5. BALEFUL • Does baleful mean • Heavenly • Heavy load of hay • Happy • Evil A baleful look

  6. Cauterize • Does cauterize mean • To heat steel to melting • To sauté onions, meat, etc. • To burn tissue • To sear

  7. Emaciated • Civil war • Excessively thin • Excessively overweight • Liberated

  8. Nocturnal • An inherited disease • Active at night • Active only in the daylight • A contagious disease

  9. Pacifist • One who is satisfied • One who uses force • One who does not use force • One who likes the ocean

  10. Awry • a type of bread • Not as planned • A planned event • A distance place Rain on the day of our picnic was not welcomed.

  11. Cumbersome • A gap in the mountains • A cucumber salad • Unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk • A day that is cloudy

  12. To Sir, With LoveE. R. Braithwaite • To Sir, With Love is a 1959autobiographical novel by E. R. Braithwaite set in the East End of London. The novel is based on true events concerned with Braithwaite taking up a teaching post in a school there. The novel was made into a film in 1967.

  13. Rime of the Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the EnglishpoetSamuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1797–1799. It relates the supernatural events experienced by a mariner on a long sea voyage.

  14. The Hunchback of Notre DameVictor Hugo • The book tells the story of a poor Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo) who was raised by the archdeacon (Claude Frollo). The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it, as Hugo was thoroughly against.

  15. The Mayor of CasterbridgeThomas Hardy • Michael Henchard is traveling with his wife, Susan, looking for employment as a hay-trusser. When they stop to eat, Henchard gets drunk, and in an auction that begins as a joke but turns serious, he sells his wife and their baby daughter, -Elizabeth-Jane, to Newson, a sailor, for five guineas. In the morning, Henchard regrets what he has done and searches the town for his wife and daughter. Unable to find them, he goes into a church and swears an oath that he will not drink alcohol for twenty-one years, the same number of years he has been alive.

  16. The Importance of Being ErnestOscar Wilde • This is the classic screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde's delightful comedy of manners about the English upper class in the late nineteenth century. The effect of this is to demonstrate that fashion and fashionable ways of behaving that are often thought by young people to be very important are, in reality, fads which will have their day and then fade away.

  17. Brontophobia Fear of storms

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