• Read the “Quote of the Day”, Record it in your binder with your thoughts.
• Record the Word of the Day
• Discuss the format for future Vocabulary Units. `
• Discuss the Vocabulary Test that will take place on Friday October 31, 2008.
• Discuss the class expectations for the following week.
• Complete the Group Papers.
• ANAÏS NIN: We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
• Copemate/ Copesmate noun:
• PRONUNCIATION:(KOP-mayt)
• MEANING:
• 1. An associate or friend.
• 2. An opponent or adversary.
• "Weigh gentlemen, and consider, whether my affirmations, back'd with reason, may hold balance against the bare denials of ... my copesmate."
Vocabulary Review
• Circumspect- adj : careful to consider everything that might happen
• Commandeer-vb : to take possession of by force especially for military purposes
• Diffuse- diffuse adj 1 : using too many words : VERBOSE • Dilemma- n : a situation in which one has to choose between two or more things, ways, or plans that are equally unsatisfactory
• Opinionated-adj : holding to one's own opinions and ideas too strongly
• Perennial-adj 1 : present at all seasons of the year
• Predispose- vb : to dispose in advance
• Spasmodic- adj 1 a : relating to or affected or characterized by spasm
• Spurious- adj : not genuine or authentic
• Unbridled- adj : UNRESTRAINED
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