Lopate+Vocabulary

Each person in the class will be assigned a single term. By the due date, each entry must contain the following seven parts: Word, Full Definition(s) + published sample sentence(s), an original sentence with clear context clue, image, and memory tip.

Sample:

**Original Sentence:** I n many current articles or novels, writers often use allusions to refer to Shakespeare.
 * Published Sentence:** Most __allusions__ are based on the assumption that there is a body of knowledge that is shared by the author and the reader and that therefore the reader will understand the author’s referent. -Britannica Online
 * Image**:
 * Memory Tip**: A novel that has an allu__sion__ in it will lead to a more knowledgeable conclu__sion.__ An __all__usion is something that both the reader and writer should all have knowledge of and __all__ be in on.

Word Assignments: There will be a quiz over these words + the style words from your pre-quiz next Friday, September 9th. Each student's word: **candor, demotic, curmudgeonly, discordant, culpability, presumptuous, eccentricity, discourse, perverse, tangential, transience, provocation, impertinence, quintessential, anchorite**

denotes someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, and—circumstances permitting—[|Eucharist]-focused life.
 * Anchorite-**

[per-vurs] 1. willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary. 2. characterized by or proceeding from such a determination or disposition: a perverse mood. 3. wayward or cantankerous. 4. persistent or obstinate in what is wrong. 5. turned away from or rejecting what is right, good, or proper; wicked or corrupt.
 * Perverse by Anastasia Pavlova**
 * Published Sentence:** He seems to take perverse pleasure in making things as difficult as possible. - Merriam-Webster Dictionary
 * Original Sentence:** When i correct my sister's math errors, she is perverse enough to insist that he is right.
 * Image:**
 * Memory Tip:** Per__verse__ is a re__verse__ of a good thing.

(of a person or their behavior) Failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.
 * Presumptuous-**

[ im- pur -tn- //uh // ns ] 1. unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence.2. impertinent quality or action.3.something impertinent, as an act or statement.4.an impertinent person.5.irrelevance, inappropriateness, or absurdity. "It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions." Mark Twain
 * Impertinence by Allie Slingsby**
 * Published Sentence:**
 * Original Sentence: **It is like Bob's impertinence to blow spit balls at dinner, because it is insolent.
 * Image:**
 * Memory Tip:** __im__pertinence is __im-__polite, or rude.

=Provocation-By Katie Sandage= (prov- uh - key -sh uh-n) 1. the act of provoking 2. something that incites, instigates, angers, orirritates. Published Sentence: He'd fly into rage at the slightest provocation. Original Sentence: The provocation given by my mother caused me to go into a fit of anger. Image: Memory Clue: If you take out the rov in the middle of provoke, it spells poke. Everyone knows how annoying the poking game is and how the provocation of the situation can cause much anger. = = [kwin-tuh-sen-sh//uh//l] 1. Of pure and essential essence of something 2. Of or pertaining to the most perfect embodiment of something
 * Quintessential by Lyndsay Shaver**

This is splendid social history, the quintessential American story of people and community. They are the quintessential team, who always works together and pushes one anther to be the best that they can be.
 * Published Sentence:**
 * Original Sentence:**
 * Image:**


 * Memory Tip:** It is __essential__ to have a quint__essential__ example to share

1. Of, relating to, or of the nature of a tangent 2. Acting along of lying in a tangent 3. Divergent or digressive 4. Touching lightly, incidental, peripheral
 * Tangential - Shelby Stork **
 * [tan-jen-sh//u//hl] **
 * Published Sentence:** Their romance is //tangentia//l to the books main thought. (Merriam-Webster)
 * Original Sentence:** The answer you provided was tangential to the actual question.
 * Image:**
 * Memory Tip:** If you go on a __tangent__, you are diverging from your original point.


 * Culpability by Cindy Ndiaye**

[kəl-pə-bel-itē]

1) Responsibility for a fault or wrong and to have blameworthiness.

2) A state of guilt.


 * Published Sentence:** They held her __culpable__ for the accident.- Merriam-Webster Dictionary


 * Original** **Sent****nce:** After Sam ran over his neighbor’dog, he felt a strong sense of __culpability__.


 * Image:**




 * Memory Tip:** Criminals can also be called __culp__rits, which are people who should feel a sort of __culp__ability for their actions.

__**Discordant - Sankhya Amaravadi**__
[ dis- kawr -dnt ]

1. being at variance; incongrous; //discordant opinions// 2. disagreeable to the ear; harsh


 * Published Sentence:** If a song ends in one key and then the next song starts in a discordant key, it psychologically jars the audience.


 * Original Sentence:** After arguing for a long time, the two sides were still discordant with each other and simply could not agree on a solution.


 * Image:**[[image:pioneerswrite/calvin_arguing.png height="230"]]
 * Memory Tip:** __Dis__cordance is being __dis__agreeable.

(Dih-mot-ik)
 * Demotic Sabrina Miller**
 * 1) Of or pertaining to the ordinary, everyday, current form of alanguage; vernacular: //a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.//
 * 2) Of or pertaining to the common people; popular.
 * Of, pertaining to, or noting the simplified form of hieratic writing used in ancient Egypt between 700 B.C. and A.D. 500.
 * 1) Published Sentence: //A poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.//
 * 2) Original Sentence: The writing in this novel is very demotic; it is very simple and easy to comprehend in this day and age.
 * 3) [[image:pioneerswrite/DEMOTIC.jpg]] (In the day it was used commonly, this writing would have been considered demotic.)
 * 4) Writing Tip: When a piece of writing is considered __de__motic, it does not __de__motivate you from reading the piece.

=Candor by Alina Makarenko= [kan-dər] > a) Frankness of expression; sincerity; straightforwardness. b) Freedom from prejudice; impartiality.
 * **Full Definition:**
 * **Published Sentence:** "**Candor** is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman." - James F. Cooper.
 * Original Sentence: Openness and **candor** are not so "popular" now.
 * **Image:** http://www.photoclub.com.ua/_/88584.jpeg?0
 * **Memory tip:** When speaking __can__didly, you will be using __can__dor.

[ker-muhj-uh'n-lee]
 * Curmudgeonly by Aleta Cardinal**


 * Definition:** the state of being difficult, bad-tempered, or cantankerous.


 * Published sentence:** Peter Lawrence Boyle, American actor, showcased his comic talents in a series of films, notably as the creature in Mel Brooks's //Young Frankenstein// and as the curmudgeonly Frank Barone in the television sitcom //Everybody Loves Raymond. -Britannia Online//


 * Original** **sentence:** I deal with curmudgeonly old people all day at work on Wednesday; seniors day.


 * Image:**


 * Memory tip:** a __crum__my grumpy old man is acting __curm__udgeonly.

[tran-shuhns, -zhuhns, -zee-uhns]
 * Transience **

1) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying 2) the attribute of being brief or fleeting //- 50 First Dates//
 * Published Sentence: **“Maybe it's the curse of globalized life, or maybe there's something attractive about transience.”
 * Original Sentence:** The __transience__ in the room made everyone upset.


 * Image:**



 **Memory Tip**: Add an “I” in the first part of the word (__tran__sience) to make the word “train”. Trains are able to __fleet__ or disappear. And the all have and __end__ destination.

Discourse Brett Blankenship
[dis-kawrs]


 * Definition:** Communication of thoughts by words


 * Published Sentence:** Obama doesn't care a whit about the civility of our public discourse. (Health care news blog)


 * Original Sentence:** The teacher is tired of the discourse between students.


 * Memory Tip:** Get help in the course with some discourse with a friend


 * Definition:** Deviation from an established pattern or norm; especially: odd or whimsical behavior.
 * Published Sentence:** "Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." -Edith Sitwell
 * Original Sentence:** If we were all filled with eccentricity, eccentric behavior would be considered normal.
 * Memory Tip: Eccentric="Ex"Center=Off Center=Odd. vs. Center=Normal.**