Mr. Chalk - English I Pre-AP/TAG

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Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man
 
The Veldt - african grassland 
Nursery reacts to telepathic emanations - communication other than 
senses/thoughts
they're insufferable - difficult to endure
nostalgia of the falling astronauts - longing for the past; homesick
NO WHITE clientele - customers
cured hypocricy - falseness; professing beliefs you do not practice
afflicted with a withered arm - inflicting with pain, suffering 
can't go on hearsay - evidence based on reports of others
trying to bilk them - to trick; beguile  
perpetual rain - lasting for eternity
molted the bushes - to shed the outer covering; making way for new growth
the pallid shore - pale, the pastey gangster

in the luminous night - emitting light
now he's on the tarmac - landing area or runway
always with a rapt attention - absorbed; engrossed 
sin might appear as virtue - moral excellence 
surrounded by a blue phosphorescence - persistent emission following exposure 
to radiation OR emission of light with no burning or without heat
tempered justice with mercy - to bring to a desired consistency 
This is logical.  Good night. - valid reasoning
The Exiles - banished; excluded (the rocc)   
Mrs. Fezziwig, with one vast substantial smile - ample; strong 
It summoned us out of what? Death? - to call together 
The flickering orb - sperical object 
sat staring at the edges of the encroaching and uninhabited sea - advance 
beyond proper limits

You get wildly philisophocal - love and pursuit of wisdom
Spell psychiatrist.
fireworks that ascended...- went up and blew up...sweet
an automatic gesture of this day and age - movement; sign 
an affliction of the rusted ones - noun form of afflicted 
It's a conspiracy against you. - perform a subversive attack together
each with his little cache of food - hiding place 
his smile incredulous - filled with disbelief 
arguments and ferocities still continued - examples of savageness 
Satirical Attack!! - If you don't know satire by now, please keep chewing 
your gum and watching TV...Only kidding.  It is mocking anything.   
the assignor scowled - one who makes an assignment
 
children cavorted - danced around; jerked   
You're a heathen! - sinful person; doesn't want a fancy car 
their derrieres incredible in girth - derrier is hiney; girth is size; bulk
his fevered ear rested firmly and irrevocably against her.. - impossible to 
retract or revoke  
marionette - puppet 
obsidian walls - black, banded volcanic glass 
unscathed from the city - unharmed 
The children catapulted this way and that - jumped; bounded  
no disgruntled ones - discontent  
Give me a civil answer - in accordance to an organized society 
All the little revelations and knowledges exploded in her - manifestation of 
truth 
ripping metal, melting it, pouring out usable ingots - mold for casting metal 
the vague patch began to assemble itself...

POE VOCABULARY - We are using ONLY the words the average man may scribe...

THE RAVEN - "While I pondered weak and weary...

quaint - odd 
lore - traditional knowledge 
entreating - begging 
bust - statue from chest up 
dirges - funeral songs 
melancholy - sad, gloomy 
placid - calm 
ebony - black 
beguiling - tricking; charming 
discourse - conversation 
tempest - storm 
undaunted - unharmed 
pallid - pale

...Shall I be lifted, nevermore"

RED DEATH  - "The Red Death had long devasted the country.  No pestilence has 
ever been so fatal or so hideous.  But the Prince Prospero was wise and 
dauntless and sagacious...

pestilence - disease 
avatar - quality or symbol 
sagacious - wise 
countenance - facial expression 
pervaded - spread 
solemnly - sincer; somber 
gaunt - skinny 
robust - large 
summoning - calling together 
dominion - rule 
cessation - a stop 
phantasm - illusion or apparition 
save - except

...the Red Death held domninion over all."

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO "A thousand insults of Fortunado I had borne as best 
I could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge...

borne - to bear or endure 
venture - to proceed 
avenged - to take vengeance 
preclude - keep from happening 
impunity - without punishment 
perceive - to become aware 
immolation - killing or sacrifice 
gait - how you move on foot; walk 
repose - rest 
mason - one who builds with stone, brick 
fettered - chained 
hearken - to listen 
aperture - opening 
catacombs - underground tunnels

...In pace requiescat."

ANIMAL FARM, PSAT, and BIG RED BARN

spelling:  hoe, bray, weather vane, receive, ration

sloth (n) apathy, laziness 
abolish (v) to do away with 
blithely (adv) carefree; casual  "The pigs walked blithely into the yard."
gluttony (n) in excess 
satire (n) mocking or ridiculing society 
allegory (n) an abstract representation 
orator (n) speaker 
toil (n) work 
procure (v) to obtain 
rhetoric (n) the art of language 
dole (v) to ration or give out
shrewd (adj) clever or sly 
fortnight (n) two weeks 
encsconce (v) to conceal 
euphemism (n) soothing language 
emboldened (v) to encourage "Emboldened by the success of the windmill, the 
animals worked until dawn."
indignant (adj) righteous anger 
contemptuously (adv) without respect 
pension (n) fixed income after retirement
posthumous (adj) happening after death 
incumbent (n) the one currenly in power 
breach (v) to break or violate 
draconian (adj) severe; harsh 
bureaucracy (N) government characterized by specialization of functions, 
adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority
3 : a system of administration marked by officialism and red tape 
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"Into Thin Air" 
cognizant (adj)  - aware 
compulsively (adv) in obedience to an irrisistible impulse
escalate (V) to increase intensity
hindsight (n) knowledge of events after they have occurred
initiative (n) the will or power to begin a task
meander (v) follow a winding path
obscuring (adj)concealing  
obstinacy (n) stubborneness
supplemental (adj) extra; additional
pugnacious (adj) aggressive and tough 
impeded (v) hampered 
interia (n) the tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest
intermittenly (adv) occasionally

spelling:  souvenier, gauge, rappel, fahrenheit, descend

"The Most Dangerous Game" 
affable (adj) friendly, likeable 
elude (v) to escape or evade 
solicitous (adj) with concern 
zealous (adj) passionate 
droll (adj) odd 
tangible (adj) able to be touched or felt 
opaqueness (n) darkness 
stamina (n) endurance 
imperative (adj) urgent, important 
disarming (adj) removing suspision 
condone (v) to overlook 
uncanny (adj) almost supernatural 
scruple (n) doubt based on beliefs
deplorable (adj) regretable 
amenity (n) something adding convenience 
quarry (n) prey or object of a hunt 
cosmopolitan (adj) worldly, aristocratic
precarious (adj) unsteady

spelling: yacht, gargoyle, bough

fray (n) a fight 
nirvana (n) oblivious from pain or worry
sublime (adj) elevated in thought or language 
incubus (n) an evil spirit visiting in the night
paramour (n) one you are in love with
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