Words of the Day

The cat affixed himself to the girl’s arm because he saw water.

The girl commenced her bracelet, but put it down because it was too hard.

The girl’s paper was a tolerable piece of work.

The grape shriveled up after sitting out for 5 weeks.

The food committee’s providence made the guests feel like royalty.

The pile of ingot at the incinerator kept growing.

The oracle said that they had to give a sacrifice in order for them to get out of the drought.

The infernal boy caused the baby sitter to cry.

The group went to the meeting to speculate on the issue.

The hogshead was filled with kool-aid for the celebration.

The vial contained the gold we collected from the creek.

Your ball and socket joints are like pivots.

The car careened around the squirrel and crashed into a tree.

The gaudy colors of the blown glass, all mixed together, made the piece look horrid.

The girl’s raspy voice made her sound like she was on a voice recorder.

The girl had a notion to put up the ball, but decided against it, and made a nice assist.

The dismal painting caused the viewers to leave in low spirits.

All the victuals on the table made the girl’s mouth water.

The boy got thrashed for stealing money from his aunt.

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The dogmatic detective demanded that everyone leave the crime scene.

The girl’s egregious shot cost them the game.

On a brisk fall night, a group of teens broke into a building and dissipated at the sound of sirens.

The boy’s basketball team was disparaged at the awards banquet compared to the girls.

There was confusion on weather the boys or girls basketball team plays first, so the girl’s coach asked the activities director to elucidate who plays first.

The basketball team's torpid defensive slides caused them to run 8 lines.

When the tempestuous kids ran through the house, their mother scolded them because she just got done cleaning it.

When we visited NYC we saw the empire state building, which was the biggest edifice I have ever seen.

The decorous family was offended when a group of young boys whirled through their house and trashed it.

During Mr. Feelgood’s funeral, his son wrote an eulogium that left everyone remembering all the happy memories.

The team did not show any propriety when they were laughing while someone got hurt, even though it was toward a different matter.

The sagacious old man shared his knowledge about gold panning with his grandchildren.

The girl’s voluminous hair made her look like a model.

The coach's arguous style of coaching caused the girls to win regionals.

Our alacrity for the boy’s basketball game drained all of our energy for our game.

The languid speaker bored his listeners out of their minds.

Young Goodman Brown

1) An allegory to "Young Goodman Brown" is a Journey through life. It shows that people come in conflict with temptation and weather or not are able to resist. Also that we are in a fight to keep faith because it can be lost easily.


2) Pink Ribbons could symbolize innocence and purity. When the ribbons are with faith there is innocence and purity, but when it's not with her, there is no innocence or purity.

Faith herself is a symbol of faith. When Goodman Brown goes from faith into the dark and gloomy woods.

The traveler's staff: It has a snake on it which symbolizes evil and suggests that the traveler is perhaps the devil.

3) I think the images in the forest were an illusion because i think the chances that the minister would have been going through the forest and stopped right near Goodman Brown and started to talk about the communion were next to none.

4) Goodman Brown, Faith, minister, Deacon Gookin, first and second traveler, old dame (goody cloyse)

5) The egyptian magi turned the staffs into snakes and that was an allusion to what moses can do to god. King Williams palace is an allusion to that the second traveler is very wise person of the world and would be comfortable anywhere, no matter who was there.

6) I had a hard time understanding it, but i thought it was a good story. I liked how it had a witch crafty feel to it. Also how it left you thinking about weather the images in the forest were real or not. It kept you thinking the whole time about what was going to happen next, or if what had just happened actually happened.

7) Hawthorne seemed to really get into his characters. I think the forest images were well thought out. He had lots of symbols and allusions, which helped the magical feel.

8) I think the theme is good vs. evil. Through out the story there is challenges against evil. When he doesn't want to leave faith, but has to and goes into the dark, gloomy woods. Also when Goodman Brown is trying to pray, but a dark cloud covers the opening.

Self-Reliance

1) A) They come to realize that they should accept themselves for who they are, not who they are pretending or pretend to be based on the rest of society.

B) Emerson says: “envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;” he is saying that you’re killing yourself and not letting yourself live if you live the life that is expected by society. His alternative is for you to embrace the real you, and not care what the rest of society is doing.

2) A) Society asks each person for conformity, but Emerson suggests that people should strive for self-reliance instead.

B) He advocates nonconformity because he believed that people should behave as themselves, and not how the rest of society is acting. When he says nonconformity he is saying that people shouldn’t behave in accordance with socially accepted stantards.

3) A) That you should act on your own beliefs all the time, not only when you are alone, but when you are among the rest of society.

B) That you shouldn’t be afraid, and should be allowed to do what you want to. This is something to strive for because it shows a sense of freedom and opportunity for you to be who you want to be.

4) A) They spoke what they felt and followed what they believed in.

B) Great people might be inconsistent because their thoughts and beliefs are changing from day to day because they aren't afraid to show what they believe in. Emerson doesn't think it's important to be consistent, but to rather speak what you wish, even if it changes the next day

5) A) Yes I agree with Emerson because you know and understand yourself the best and should let that person shine, and by doing so you find the true meaning of life. I think that someone that is more self-reliant will go farther in life than those who aren’t, because you are the one person you can fully trust, and trusting in yourself will make you go far.

B) I think they have the greatest impact on society because they will follow their own dreams, and that might inspire other people to do the same and break free from the ways of society. They can change society because they are very passionate about breaking free and following your own path and standing up for what you believe in. I think president Obama has had a great impact on our culture, because people are starting to realize that the color of your skin doesn't matter, but rather your ethics.

Words of day 2

The detective’s callous remark about the murder scene sent shivers down the children’s backs.

The capricious two-a-days made the players very exhausted.

The girl’s basketball team cajoled their coach to take them to dairy queen after victory in the state tournament.

The boy was censured for putting a tack on the teacher’s chair.

An enzyme is a catalyst to a reaction.

The caustic affect of batter acid is unbearable.

The opponents of the lady panthers capitulated after being in a hole by 30 points.

As we looked up to the celestial above, we wondered if there was more life up there.

The young girl’s catharsis showed after her dog died.

The overprotective mother was constantly carping at her kids to do their chores.

Virginia Convention Questions

1) A) The only way to arrive at truth is to embrace it weather the truth is something they want to hear or not.
B) He speaks out because he realizes that speaking peacefully toward Brittan isn’t working, and he thinks if he addresses the issues that might be hard for them to talk about that it’ll open them up and get them to start talking and taking action on the matter.

2) A) That they don’t want to fight in a war. They’d rather just argue the issue.

B) He distrusts it because he knows to judge from the past not the future.

3) A) That they are a strong country and that there is a just god who will gather friends to help them fight their battles.

B) The alternative would be defeat. It they don’t fight this war, then they will be defeated.

4) A) The colonists want to fight, but the British authorities want to talk and argue about it.

B) If they were a stronger and more authoratative nation they wouldn’t have to be going to war.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

1) A) The average person thinks that they are keeping themselves alive. Edward says that god is the one who keeps them alive.
B) Compares the fallen rock with the fact that once god decides to let you go and fall into hell there’s nothing you can do to stop it. The chaff of the summer threshing floor is compared to how god’s hand is keeping you alive and you can become a worthless peace of matter any second.

2) A) The sun doesn’t shine willingly, the earth doesn’t increase to satisfy your lusts, that it’s not a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon, and the air doesn’t serve you for breath.
B) The dark clouds represent God’s anger. Darkness is generally related to anger. When someone is mad they’re in a ‘dark’ or ‘unhappy’ place, and dark clouds don’t make anybody happy.

3) A) A person can be taken out of the sinner classification by: passing under a great change of heart, if you were born again and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new.
B) The abstract ideal is the insect. By us holding a spider over a fire, it occupies the abstract ideal. It’s frightening because we can realize how powerful we can be over a spider, and that’s how powerful, if not more powerful, god is to us.

4) A) The threat is that we’re hanging by a thin thread and any moment the thread can break and we’ll fall into the bottomless pit that’s full of fire and wrath.
B) This would be affective in arousing fear because people believed strongly in god and knew what he was capable of, so the idea that his hands were the things keeping you alive, and that he could drop you any second, would scare a lot of people.

Iroquois Questions

1) A) The 5 Nations.
B) To accept Adodarhoh as a new leader and tell the leaders what is expected of them. So that way, since they’re all different tribes, they can understand each other better.

2) A) Dekanawidah is speaking to Adodarhoh, who is chief confederate lord of the Onondaga, on whose land the council fire was lit.
B) I think he refers to them as cousins because they’re all the same; in the sense that they’re all there as leaders of their tribes, but they’re not really related to each other.

3) A) He will provide a wampum to show his pledge, which symbolizes honesty.
B) Qualities a leader should have: His heart should be filled with peace and good; his mind filled with the welfare of the people; he should have tenderness towards the people. Qualities a leader shouldn’t have: He should never have anger, or offensive actions and criticism within him; neither anger nor fury should be lodged in their minds; they shouldn’t have self-interest in the matter.

4) A) They are crowned with deer antlers, and when they open with prayer they thank the great creator and say they are thankful for all of mother earth’s creations.
B) They trust, and are very thankful for nature. For example putting an eagle on top of the tree to warn them about evil coming, and using the tree as shelter.

5) A) Yes I think they have chosen good qualities for a leader, such as: they should have welfare for the people and set self-interests aside, they should have a peaceful mind, and tenderness towards the people.

Words of the day

The boy was puzzled for hours from the conundrum his teacher gave him.

The deleterious meth lab blew up and killed thousands.

When the Lady panthers played the Yakutat eagles, they enervated their spirits because they beat them so bad.

The hegemony of the U.S. resulted in their victory.

The inchoate basketball game was close, but it resulted in the Skagway panthers demolishing their opponent.

The Juxtaposition of the kids showed that they loved each other.

The legerdemain magician awed his audience with his card trick.

The manifold amounts of color made the art piece stand out from the rest.

We obfuscated the dog by pretending to throw the ball for him.

The boy’s ribald speech about his teacher got him kicked out of class.