Thursday, October 1, 2009

Deraged

Daranged

Part of Speech: adj

Source of Sentence:(123) I felt like King Tut, except that I was alive and trapped in the mausoleum with a deranged koala.

Context Clues: Wrestling with a child for half an hour.

Definition: Insane Dissordered

Original Sentence: The child was acting deranged when his mother took away his toy.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Monstrosity

Montrosity

Part of Speech: Noun

The Source Sentence: (45) Despite my father's reassurance, there exised no bags in our house big enough to hold this monstrosity.

Context Clues: We could not make it any less bulky. It defined flattering.

Definition: Huge shocking and big.

Original Sentence: I just bought this compact car for my extended family to travel across country and it will not fit the monstrosity size of my family.

Apathetic

Apathetic

Part of Speech: Adjective

The Source Sentence (118): I told my father that his "Ship 'Em Aboard" program didn't sound too democratic to me, that perhaps inccluded in the freedoms in this country is the freedom to be apathetic.

Context Clues: The reason why I choose "He hung up on me" because it explains how cold hearted someone could be.

Definition: Having or showing little or no emotion.

Your original Sentence: He was apathetic to the death of his grandmother passing, because he had a bad relationship with her.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Tutelage

Tutelage

Part of Speech: noun

The Source Sentence (130): I had been taking French since seventh grade, and under the tutelage of my high school teacher, Mr. Polkingharm, affectionately known as Le Polk, I had become quite fluent.

Context Clues: The reason why I choose alliance as a context clue was because it describe the specific purpose.

Definition: The act of guarding, protecting or guiding; office or function of a guardian guardianship.

Your Original Sentence: He bodyguard tutelage the President from the terriost.

Enviable

Enviable



Part of Speech: Adjective



The Source Sentence (98) Even though their condominium has only a tiny garden, they have manage to cultivate an enviable cornucopia of figs, pomegranates, sweet lemons, and herbs.


Context Clues: Cultivate is a word that describe interest in something.


Definition: Worthy of envy very desirable.

Original Sentence: I find reading and writting to be very enviable towards getting a good grade.

Strewn

Strewn

Part of Speech: Verb

The source Sentence (113)

context clues: the reason why i choose lawn as context clue was because it descibed the picture on the Iran flag.

Definition: To let fall in seperate pieces or particles over a surface scatter of spinkle.

Your Original Scentence: To strewn seed in a garden bed.

Dote

Dote

Part of speech Verb

The Source Sentence pg(103) : Now whenever we visit my relatives all of whom dote on my husband, I realize that he didn't mary me despite my tribe, he married me because of them.

Context Clues: The reason why I choose married as a context clue was because it descibe when two people love each other.

Definition: To bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually.

Your Original Sentence: They dote on their yougest daughter.