Fall Vocab List #7

1. Ad infinitum - To infinity; endlessly; without limit.
    - The exam seem to be ad infinitum
2. Apportion - To distribute or allocate proportionally divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution.
    - To apportion expenses.
3. Bona fide - Made, done, presented, etc. in a good faith; with out deception or fraud. Authentic; true.
    - the musket the man brought to the shop was definitely bona fide.
4. Buoyant - Not easily depressed; cheerful; cheering or invigorating.
    -  She is so happy and buoyant.
5. Clique - A small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.
    - The gang in the neighborhood was so big that they started setting cliques around.
6. Concede - To acknowledge as true, just, or proper; admit.
    - He finally conceded that his sister was right.
7. Congenial - Agreeable, suitable, adaptive, or pleasing in nature or character.
    -  That couple is very congenial.
8. Lofty - Exalted in rank, dignity, or character; eminent.
    - When I talk to a police I make sure to talk to them in a lofty manner.
9. Migration - The process of migration.
    -  Animals usually try to get a lot of food before they go to migration.
10. Perceive - To become aware of, known, or identify by means of the senses.
    - The cat perceived felt the dogs presence when it came into the room.
11. Prelude - A preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
12. Rancid - Having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell of taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils.
    - What is that rancid smell?
13. Rustic - Simple, artless, or unsophisticated
    - My friends imaginary can be rustic at times.
14. Sever - To separate ( a part ) from the whole, as by cutting or like.
    - My teacher is sever from my past teachers.
15. Sordid - Morally ignorable, selfish, self-seeking.
    - My brother can be so sordid.
16. Untenable - Incapable of being defended, as an argument, thesis, etc.; indefensive.
    - At times everyone feels untenable.    
17. Versatile - Capable of adapted for tuning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor.
18. Vindicate - To clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or like.
    - To vindicate someones honor.
19. Wane - To decrease in strength, intensity, etc.
    - Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning. 

Class Work

In the "from Thoreau’s Walden" that we read in class I thought Thoreau was his itinerary and had a guile for what he wants to do in life. He was kind of saying that he wants to learn and understand the things he does before doing anything else. He wants to ascetic every point that he think that’s is a good point to him. He lost his despair in everything like if he just gave everything up and just let it all go. I think that he thinks that his life can be very lurid sometimes with all the thing that he has to go though. I also think that he is thinking that he can thinks of pious for what his reactions are. He has his own endemic that he is doing. He is exemplary to what he thinks his life was before he ages. He is very expostulate and innuendo because it seems like he doesn’t care what other people think. For example “Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.” I think this shows that he is willing to thin about what other think about what he has to say but be happy with whatever he thinks it is.

Mid-Term Studying

For the mid-term exam I will review the old vocab (I'm so glad that I kept all my flash cards!) and make to piles. The ones that I know and the ones that I do not know or unsure of. I would also like to form a study group one of the days of this week and just collaborate with my classmates. 

Romanticism

 When I went to my walk I was thinking of all things on what I have done, what I've experienced, what I regretted, what I could have done better, etc. and I was just thinking about all these things in my head. There was a point were I just decided to stop thinking, I cleared my head from all thoughts and just relaxed (which I haven't done in a while) and it felt nice, I wasn't stressed or worried about anything about anything.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/romanticism 
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/romanticism
http://www.answers.com/topic/romanticism

The websites that I went to had pretty much of the same definitions. It describes that Romanticism as when someone is expressing emotion or that they are emotional and they are trying to find themselves (which I sort of experienced).

A Dream Within A Dream

When I read A Dream Within A Dream I was amazed on how much feel and emotion Poe, I can see myself seeing Poe in his situations and what he has gone through. When I was reading the poem it seemed to me that he had some regrets and he just wishes that he was dreaming so that way it wouldn't have had such an effect on him. Also when he is going through his emotions he is he put that "I hold within my hand the Golden sand How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep," I feel like that he had some regrets or things that he wish he could have done that he didn't do and the sand represents the chance that just slipped away in through his fingers. So this poem definitely shows some romanticism because it shows that don't do things that you will regret and don't regret the opportunities you will have in life.