Vocabulary+Extra+Credit

If you find any of our CURRENT vocabulary words in a book, magazine or in a song, you may copy the quote, cite the source and explain the meaning of the word. (No on line sources are allowed unless it comes out of either a Commercial Appeal or NY Times article). Only one person can find each new word for credit. Each word is worth five points. Only 30 points can be accumulated per nine weeks. Once a word is used, it is dead to the rest of the class. Extra credit will appear in Powerschool as "Extra Credit". Be sure to include your name!

"**Forlorn** her nights and days go by, her life used up in weeping." -(Book 11) Odyssey -Forlorn means alone in this sentence. Kaitlyn Notto

"Adams regarded Hamilton as 'the most ruthless, impatient, artful, **indefatigable** and unprincipled intriguer in the United States, if not the world.'" -(202) APUSH textbook. Hayley Notto
 * Indefatigable- can not be made to tire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJEFoK0qIRg&feature=youtube_gdata_player This song contains the word "contrive," skip to around 0:46-0:47 to hear it. "I'll contrive a way to find you diamond rings." Brynna Williams
 * contrive- make up a scheme

"It might be, that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other **heterodox** religionist was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle and vagrant Indian, whom the white man's fire-water had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest." -(37) The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hayley Notto
 * Heterodox- departing from or opposed to the usual beliefs or established doctrine

"'but did ever a woman, before this brazen hussy, **contrive** such a way of showing it! Why gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment?'" -(40) The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hayley Notto
 * Contrive- made up scheme or imagined fabrication.

"Discerning the impracticable state of the poor culprit's mind, the elder clergyman, who had carefully prepared himself for the occasion, addressed to the multitude a discourse on sin, in all its branches, but with continual reference to the **ignominious** letter." -(51) The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hayley Notto
 * Ignominious- shameful, dishonorable, disgraceful.

"Thou hast kept the secret of thy **paramour**."-(57) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eli Womack
 * Paramour-lover

"It was whispered, by those who peered after her that the scarlet letter threw a **lurid** gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior." (52) - Nathaniel Hawthorne, //The Scarlet Letter// Emily Mitchell
 * Lurid- characterized by a violent passion or crime.

"...Mistress Prynne shall here-after be more **amenable** to just authority than you may have found her heretofore." (53) - Nathaniel Hawthorne, //The Scarlet Letter// Emily Mitchell
 * Amenable- responsible or answerable, able to be controlled or influenced.

"Since that wretched EPOCH, he had watched, with morbid zeal and minuteness, not his acts, -- for those it was easy to arrange, -- but each breath of emotion, and his every thought." (Scarlett Letter p. 154) -Epoch means a notable period in time. Kaitlyn Notto.

"It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwonted **jollity** that brightened the faces of the people". -The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hayley Notto
 * Jollity-the quality or state of being fun.

"In Europe the diversionary power of Napoleon was destroyed in mid-1814, and the dangerous **d****espot** was exiled to the Mediterranean isle of Elba." -pg.234 APUSH textbook. Hayley Notto
 * Despot-a ruler who is a tyrant.

"These primitive statesmen, therefore,-Bradstreet, Endicott, Dudley, Bellingham, and their compeers,-who were elevated to power by the early choice of the people, seem to have been not often brilliant, but distinguished by a **ponderous** sobriety, rather than activity of intellect." -pg.183 The Scarlet Letter. Hayley Notto
 * Ponderous- heavy

"Pearl either saw and responded to her mother's feelings, or herself felt the remoteness and **intangibility** that had fallen around the minister."- pg. 185 The Scarlet Letter. Hayley Notto
 * Intangible- can not touch; not easily grasped.

"Within the church, it had hardly been kept down; beneath the sky, it pealed upward to the **zenith.**"- The Scarlet Letter, pg. 192. Hayley Notto
 * Zenith- the highest point.

"I had CONJURED up my grandfather's own bogeyman." (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 39) -conjured means to bring up magically. Kaitlyn Notto.

"Hester sought not to acquire anything beyond a subsistence of the plainest and most **ascetic** description, for herself, and a simple abundance for her child."-Scarlet Letter(Hawthorne 62) Eli Womack
 * Ascetic- a person who leads a life with strict self-discipline and without the usual pleasures and comforts, often for athletic competition.

"She had in her nature a rich, **voluptuous**, Oriental characteristic, -- a taste for the gorgeously beautiful, which, save in the exquisite productions of her needle, found nothing else, in all the possibilities of her life, to exercise itself upon."-Scarlet Letter(Hawthorne 63) Eli Womack
 * Voluptuous-- Sexually attractive because of a full, shapely figure

"If they were resolute to **accost** her, she laid her finger on the scarlet letter, and passed on."- pg.124 The Scarlet Letter Hayley Notto
 * Accost- to approach or confront aggressively.

"Jackson's followers presented their hero as a rough-hewn frontiers and a **stalwart** champion of the common man."-pg. 260 The American Pageant/ The APush book. Eli Womack
 * Stalwart- having a firm foundation, brave, resolute, firm, and unyielding.

"These are when one ascends to princely rule by some wicked and **nefarious** means;" - The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Hayley Notto
 * Nefarious-horribly villainous.