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Assignments for AP 2011- 2:00 Section
 * Review to your assigned word.**
 * Each entry should contain the following seven parts:**
 * **The Word and its part of speech (may be more than one)**
 * **Pronunciation: phonetic spelling or pronunciation sound link (if already there, be sure it works)**
 * **Complete definition(s): These can be copied and pasted from dictionary.com.**
 * **Dictionary sample sentence.**
 * Delete the original sentence
 * **Image that is representative of the word and its meaning.**
 * **Memory tip.**
 * Insert any missing content and replace any incorrect postings related to your word. 6 pts.**

1. **Verbals - noun**Pronounciation: **ver**-b//uh//ls:Definition: A word, particularly a noun or adjective, derived from a verbDictionary Sample Sentence : They do not appreciate my **singing**. **Speeding** is dangerous.Image:

Memory tip: Think **verb** **a**(s**) l** (language) **s** (ubstitues), since a verbal is a verb that is taking a different role (substituting) in a sentence.

Pronunciation: [ri-**duhn**-d//uh// nt] Definition: characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; being in excess 1. No longer needed or useful 2. Able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function. Sentence: She lived vicariously and made her daughter do things she wanted to have done. (vicariously means living through someone else, in this case her daughter, thus it is redundant to state that she made her daughter do things she wanted to do.) Memory tip: the prefix “re-“ means again, and when something is redundant it is stated again and again.
 * 2. Redundant** - adj

3) **Mazy-**adj. – p 16
Pronunciation: \ˈmā-zē\ Other forms of the word Definition: Resembling a maze, as in design or complexity; labyrinthine like a maze; intricately winding; bewildering Samples: Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. Herman Melville, //Moby Dick// “We ran up Lloyd Street and wound through mazy backyards toward the steep hilltop at Willard and Lang.” RCWW Memory Tip: Mazy is the word you would use to describe a maze Image: Submitted by: Michael Guo
 * mazily** //adv//
 * maziness** //n//

1. a Christian festival, observed on January 6, commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day. 2.an appearance or manifestation, especially of a deity. 3.a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplaceoccurrence or experience. 4.a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelationandinsight.
 * 4. Epiphany**: /noun [i-**pif**-//uh//-nee]

__Sample Sentence:__ The ** epiphany ** occurredwhile I wasattendinga high schoolsummerprogramonscience. __Memory tip__: Epiphany is the name of a church, many epiphanies occur in religion. __Image:__



Submitted by: Caroline Lartz Pronunciation: / (prou) Definition: A projecting forward part, such as the front end of a ski. For example, the bow of a ship or the front end of a ski. Sentence: On the Titanic, the prow of the ship crashed into an iceberg, causing it to sink. Image: Memory tip: Prow sounds like bow and that is the more common name for the front of the ship.
 * 5. Prow, noun**



Submitted by: Christina Parlette Pronunciation: ěn-skŏns' Definition: to settle securely or snuggly, to cover or shelter, hide securely, to place or conceal in a secure place, absorbed in something Samples: I found her in the library, ensconced in an armchair. Original Sentence: My paycheck was ensconced deep in the drawer so my brother could not take it.
 * 6. Ensconced**-verb

**Definition:**
to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass:to emulate one's father as a concert violinist.

[[image:http://365daysofvocab.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/emulate11.jpg width="525" height="415"]]
Memory Tip: EmuLATE sounds like imiTATE... which are pretty darn similar.

**8. Irony**
Pronunciation: [|hear it again] \′ ī-rə-nē Samples of Irony from Alanis Morisette’s Ironic An old man turned ninety-eight He won the lottery and died the next day It's a black fly in your Chardonnay It's a free ride when you've already paid It's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break The irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend. Remember irony as this old man with no teeth. It’s ironic that he has no teeth, but is standing by lots and lots of Colgate toothpaste. Rachel Gocker
 * Defintion:**
 * a-**The use of words or phrases to convey the opposite of its literal meaning.
 * b-** A usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony
 * c-** An ironic expression or utterance
 * Sample:**
 * Original Sentence :**
 * Image:**
 * Memory Tip: (HAS TO DO WITH THE PICTURE)**

**9. Eloquent**
adjective
 * el**-//uh//-kw//uh// nt

1. having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech: an eloquen orator.

2. characterized by forcefu and appropriate expression: an eloquent speech.

3. movingly expressive: looks eloquen t o f disgust.

memory tip: eloquent sounds like elegant, as in the speaking is fine and fancy

sullenly-adverb sullenness- noun 1. showing irritation/ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve 2. persistently and silently ill-humored; morose 3. indicative of gloomy ill humor 4. gloomy or dismal: as in weather or a sound 5. sluggish, as a stream
 * 10. Sullen-adjective**
 * Pronunciation: (sulh-un'n)**
 * Definition:**
 * Dictionary Sample Sentence:** Sullen and bored at his in-laws house, he couldn't wait for the holidays to end.
 * Original Sentence:** After a hard day of school the children came home in sullen moods made evident by their silent nature.
 * Memory Tip**: the first word of sullen is S-think sadness and sluggish
 * Image:**

**-By: Anna Fritz**

Pronunciation: [ an -ik-doht ] Dictionary Sentence: She recounts ** anecdote ** after ** anecdote ** illustrating how she beat the odds. Memory Tip: Ancient people tell many anecdotes.
 * 11.**Anecdote- Noun
 * 1) a short account of a particular incident or event,especially of an interesting or amusing nature.

-Alex Gorsuch Submitted by: Liz Phipps Definition: 1. to make wider or larger; cause to expand. 2. //Archaic//. to describe or develop at length 3. to spread out; expand. 4. to speak or write at length; expatiate (often fol. by //on// or //upon//).
 * 12. Dilated:** //verb// [dahy-**leyt-**ed]

Dictionary Sentence: The sudden darkness made the pupils of his eyes dilate. Memory tip: Dilated has the word **late** in it, and when it is **late** at night, it is dark. So your pupils dilate.

13. par·a·dox   [ par - uh -doks ]
noun 1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. 2. a self-contradictory and false proposition. 3.any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory [|nature]. 4. an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion. //Standing is more tiring than walking//

Memory tip: You should wear a clean pair of socks (pair a sox) even if you have muddy shoes Mitch Styczynski

alt. spelling: Crenelated . Submitted by Srishti Goel
 * 14.Crenellated -** adjective
 * Pronunciation:** cren·el·lat·ed
 * Complete definition(s):** having crenellations (battlements)
 * Dictionary sample sentence:** a //crenellated// tower
 * Sample Sentence:** The castle was crenellated against all threats.
 * Memory Tip** -__Cre__nellated is like __Cre__vice

Pronounced: [** skruhf ** -ee ] Part of speech // : adjective // Definition // : // untidy; shabby. Dictionary Sentence // : // The neighborhood is full of dilapidated houses with //scruffy// backyards. Image // : // Memory Tips // : Buffy looks scruffy after fighting vampires. Sc**ruff**y: rough like stubble, which is a sign of untidiness or shabbiness. // // By: Katherine Hepler //
 * 15.**
 * Scruffy **

Pronunciation: (**perr**-**funk**-tor-il-ee)Definition: routinely and with little interest or careImage:
 * 16. Perfunctorily –** adjective

Sentence: The man kissed his wife perfunctorily on his way out the door. Memory tip: Perfunctorily means to **__PER__**__f__orm routinely**__.__** (First and last syllables in the word).

Noun: A facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc. Verb: To make a facial expression, often ugly or contorted that indicates disapproval, pain, etc. 4.Sentence Noun: Her grimace told me how much she resented the inappropriate remark. Verb: Lauren grimaced when she was kicked in the shin during the soccer game.5. 6. When you are injured, you are **GRIM** or gloomy because you are hurt. You would probably be in pain too, thus having a grimace on your face.
 * 17. Grimace** – noun or verb2. Pronunciation [verb: **grim**-//uh//s, noun: gri-**meys**]3.Definition: