Vocab :)

Subtle - fine or delicate in meaning or intent; difficult to perceive or understand

Vehement - characterized by rancor or anger; violent

Zealous - full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent.



Adverse - opposing one's interests or desire

Averse - having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed

Blatant - offensively noisy or loud; clamorou


Alleged - doubtful; suspect; supposed

Aggravate – to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome


Discreet – showing prudence and circumspection; decorous.


Factoid - an insignificant or trivial fact


Flout - to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock:


Forte - a strong point, as of a person; that in which one excels

Disinterested - not interested; indifferent

Incognito
having one's identity concealed, as under an assumed name, esp. to avoid notice or formal attentions.
She tried to dress in cloths that would not make her stand out, so that she could be incognito.

Empathy
Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives
My teacher does not have empathy for my classmates and I if we do not do our work on time.


Bias
to cause partiality or favoritism in (a person); influence, esp. unfairly
His mother cannot be his lawyer because everything the mom would say would be bias.

accord
to be in agreement or harmony; agree
Nancy was in accord with Jeffery on the location of their wedding.


Paradigm
an example serving as a model; pattern.
Since Google bought our company, our marketing has operated in a new paradigm.

Barder and the Flying Turban

Hello my name is George, but everyone calls me Star Force well me and Barder together are Star Force. My dog has been my best friend for as long as I can remember, when I was three years old my parents had brought me home a package and inside under a large orange Turban was a cute and beautiful puppy. The reason my parents brought me home Barder was because I was sick and they thought I wouldn’t live past five years. Much to everyone’s surprise I am now 25 years old and just as healthy or even healthier then a normal person my age. I was born little I was one pound two ounces, and I had to stay in the hospital for a month because I could not breathe on my own. So after I lived past five months, then five years, people stopped worrying about me and let me live my life as a normal, short boy. Barder is the best dog that anyone could ask for and he came with a pretty great gift an ugly orange turban that has the power of flight. Anyone who wears it can fly and whoever is touching the person who is wearing it can also fly. So after I lived past five months, then five years, people stopped worrying about me and let me live my life as a normal, short boy. When the Turban finally fit me I started to experiment with the turban flying high in the skies then dipping low into the city always with Barder playing as my great horse. I went through high school known as the short boy of 5 feet, everyone joked but it was not as bad as everyone thought, I was happy and I had friends. I looked like a normal person I was just really short you could say I looked like a 17 year old who was as tall as a seven year old. After high school I didn’t really want to go to college but I decided to enroll in a couple core classes in the community college I really wanted to be out somewhere with Barder. My real passion was flying around the world helping injured and a banded animals. When I turned twenty still living with my parents because I couldn’t get a job because of my height I decided I wanted to go into the medicine field but with animals my dream was to become a veterinarian. I am still in the process of going to school to get my license but when I’m not in school I'm flying from place to place helping as many injured and needy animals as I can.

Wrighting in Reverse

Toby White is an 87 year old male who still has the heart and soul of a 17 year old boy. That is why today is the 2nd best day of his life. When Toby was 77 years old his wife past away due to cancer, which was so hard for Toby because Alice his wife was not only his wife but also his best friend. After Alice had died Toby had filled his life with work and “idea’s” of a new life. Toby has been an employee of a small independent science lab for the past 30 years. For the past ten years Toby has been working on a secret project that would hopefully change his life for the better. Toby has been working on a TIME MACHINE. Right after Alice died he thought about how is was going to continue his life and that’s when it hit him, that the only way he could live his life, is if he found a way to get Alice back into his life. If he goes back to the time when he first met Alice he can redo everyday he had with Alice, he could take back every fight, and he could take back everything he did wrong, it is a chance at a second shot at an all ready wonderful life. When Toby first had finished the first model of the time machine five years earlier the machine did not work due to the amount of energy that it consumed. Today was going to be different, he was sure that he had planed everything out perfectly, and calculated every last number, he was ready for his second chance. Today Toby’s mind is filled with everything that he is going to do over in his life, all of the vacations he is going to take, there is one thing that he will not do again, and he will never walk through these subway gates alone again. As Toby walks through the subway gates he is consumed in the thought that he is the luckiest man in the world, and the only person that will ever get a second chance with the one he loved. When Toby awoke this morning, instead of putting on his regular clothes that consisted of a pair of black slacks, black work jacket, and his hair combed to one side, he put on the outfit that Alice had bought him a year before she had died. While Toby sits on the subway he tries to think about the machine and the math behind it, but all his thoughts are clouded by the picture of Alice’s face floating around his head. As Toby arrives at the Lab he does not take off his coat or his hat, instead he goes to the basement and under a couple of heavy boxes and attacks of papers Toby uncovers his time machine. Toby can feel the life coming back into him, he can feel the butterflies in his stomach, and he can all ready smell Alice’s sweet perfume. Toby sits on the bench that he got from one of the banded offices on the top floor of the building. He types in the date to the small computer screen, “1939 the best day that I will ever have” he mummers to himself, and with a quick hit to the enter button Toby is in the basement of another building that he does not recognize, there is a large mirror on the wall and when he looks into it he sees the face that he has not seen in many years he sees the face of 17 year old Toby White.

Vocab. Week #1

Flourish – to grow luxuriantly, or thrive in growth, as a plant.
My plants seemed to flourish when I started speaking to them daily.
Renegade – a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
I will renegade the Republican Party because I do not believe in the tactics of their government.
Repose – peace; tranquility; calm.
She was very repose when she read her book by the river.
Stereotype – to give a fixed form to.
Pit bulls have been stereotyped as being mean aggressive dogs when in reality they are compassionate creatures.
Tempo – relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.
My favorite song has a very strong and steady tempo.
Tranquility – quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity.
The thought of lying on the beach in the sun may make you feel tranquil.
Tumult - a general outbreak, riot, uprising, or other disorder
As the Tumult grew the officials were moved out of the city for their safety.
Tundra - one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
The tundra in North America is so large and beautiful that it brings many visitors every year.
Unanimous- characterized by or showing complete agreement. For the proposition there was a unanimous.