The Winsome Scholar

Double-check the roots and prefixes of the words at Etymonline, and definitions at NinjaWords. (Or your favorite paper dictionary.) Ten words or so will work, but enter as many as you’d like.

Here’s the plan we worked out in class today. Tuesday will give us a chance to take more time in discussing the articles on Monday, or provide me with more time to explain concepts and such. All of this is subject to change with prior notice.

Here’s a copy of the “Formatting Your Paper” handout I mentioned in class. If you notice anything that is misleading or incorrect, let me know.

(at least in high school.)

We’ve all done it before—sometimes an elusive word is on the tip of the tongue, but we can’t seem to come up with it. So, we type in a similar word, right-click, and hope the synonym list jogs our memory. The right correct appropriate word pops up, the writer’s-block crisis is averted, and we’re on our way. Good times. Sometimes, though, the synonym doesn’t quite fit, or is the wrong word altogether.

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So, the plan is to check your answers, take the numbers you got wrong, write down the definition in your own words, use it in an original sentence, then turn it in before March 23rd. (That’s the Monday after Spring Break.)

Also, we will be moving our reading schedule back a day. Read through page 123 for tomorrow.

1. Unrequited
2. Eminent
3. Peregrinations
4. Austerity
5. Premonitory
6. Contemplative
7. Indomitable
8. Faltering
9. Erosion
10. Fastidious
11. Disingenuous
12. Diligent
13. Despondency
14. Anachronism
15. Clandestine
16. Inexorable
17. Atavistic
18. Miasmic
19. Solemnity
20. Avid
21. Putrefaction
22. Pedagogy
23. Inculcate
24. Convalescence
25. Quagmire
26. Ominous
27. Interminable
28. Capitulated
29. Complaisant
30. Providential
31. Vulgarization
32. Facile
33. Reiterated
34. Brevity
35. Effusiveness

We will be using at least two of the above vocabulary terms in our article analyses tomorrow. Remember to take into consideration the connection between rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) and devices. Devices (listed above) are used to create logical, pathetic or ethical appeal in a piece.

[This post was WinsomeWiki'd on 5 Jul. 2009.]