Assiduous

I assiduously completed my homework to ensure I would do well on the upcoming test.

Compelling

I made a compelling argument against the teacher’s inkling to reschedule the test for the day after because I had studied for 4 hours the night before.

Diligent

A diligent worker makes sure everything is done well, successfully and completely.

Dogged

I had dogged determination to make the party a success because the one before had failed tremendously.

Endure

I had to have a great amount of stamina to endure the harsh conditions of the desert when I visited there.

Intrepid

My intrepid classmate was bold enough to not answer one question on his homework to prove to his classmates that he was not the teacher’s pet.

Maverick

I heard the word maverick get tossed around so much when talking about McCain, I had to look up in what way was McCain considered an independent minded person even though he belonged to the Republican Party.

Obdurate

My teacher hates when students are obdurate when she tells them to do a problem on the board.

Obstinate

My family had been having trouble overcoming the obstinate problem of unemployment.

Proliferate

I learned in my science class that bacteria can proliferate on almost any surface.

Tenacity

I have the tenacity of super glue to a fake nail to my laptop. You have to pry it away from in order to borrow it.

Vitality

I wish I had the vitality of some of the other teachers I worked with because my mentor teacher always recommended I heighten the level of energy.

Assimilation

I am hoping I will be assimilated well into Occidental’s atmosphere because the last thing I want is to be a misfit.

Consensus

There was an overall consensus amongst the class that we wanted to buy a hall for our party.

Context

I could tell from the context of the situation that someone was getting suspended for public displays of affection.

Derived

The idea of being a midwife derived from my initial compassion for children and pregnant women.

Incumbent

I couldn’t give up my responsibility as the incumbent president of the committee for a basketball game.

Inevitable

It’s inevitable that I got too tired to do homework after coming home from the gym.

Malleable

I have a lot of friends that are malleable anytime they are told they will be rewarded with food.

Subdue

It was difficult to subdue the feelings she had for new husband. They were always walking hand in hand.

Acquired

The skills I have acquired in high school will allow me to be successful in college.

Conception

I look forward to studying every aspect of conception in college.

Conviction

My cousin will hear his conviction on his birthday. That’s not the best birthday gift but I was always taught to take responsibility for my actions.

Dogmatic

My mom speaks to me about everything dogmatically as if she knows for sure that I won’t transfer from Occidental.

Enlightening

I often find my church services to be enlightening after I go even if I didn’t want to go in the beginning.

Impression

I was under the impression that the test was tomorrow not Thursday.

Intuition

I have a very strong intuition that I won’t be able to get my tuition paid off by graduation.

Misconception

It is a very common misconception that all organic food is significantly more expensive than conventionally grown food.

Perception

My little brother can’t even handle the slightest perception of pain. He cried when he fell of his bike the first time and barely grazed his knee on the concrete.

Perspective

When I visited Occidental, I was called a “Prospy” as a nickname for prospective students.

Profound

A lot of people I know have a profound ability to have a flowing conversation with people they’ve just met.

Inherent

Being a service station worker is one of the jobs that has the most inherent danger incorporated into it.

Innate

I wish I had the innate ability to read and study for hours on hand.

Inveterate

I have a very bad inveterate cursing problem when I’m upset.

Omnipotent

I hate it when TV ads try and advertise cleaning products as if they are omnipotent.

Proximity

I learned about using proximity when teaching a class. Von told us the closer you are too the student the more likely they are to pay attention to what you are saying.

Elusive

A lot of nurses tell me my veins are elusive when they are trying to draw blood.

Emigrate

I would like to some day emigrate from the United States to Europe.

Transient

A lot of students have transient attention spans and can’t make it through a class without talking about something off topic.

Transitory

I’m hoping some sort of transitory job or something to earn money to pay off my tuition.

Affable

I wish I had the ability to come off as affable when I’m in a group of people I don’t know. Instead many people tell me I look mad all the time.

Amenable

I try to be as amenable as possible to other people’s suggestions in meetings.

Camaraderie

There’s a genuine camaraderie between our classmates because we’ve spent so much time together and had the opportunity to really get to know each other.

Cordially

The hostess on horseback cordially invited me to the banquet.

Facetious

His facetious attitude about the handicapped woman’s inability to walk normally because of nerve damage disgusted me.

Impinge

I didn’t mean to impinge on the meeting and have the director speak to me about courtesy the next day.

Lament

I lamented over the death of my dog for about a month. I thought I would’ve moved on from that before then.

Melancholy

Rainy days create a very melancholy vibe around campus because a lot of people seem down.

Sanction

Some students have to be sanctioned more than other before the teacher just can’t take anymore and gives students detentions.

Truncated

I’m thinking I might get my dress truncated for graduation because the top and the bottom both are a little too long.

Aesthetic

I hope someday my house has an initially beautiful aesthetic like one of my artsy friend’s parent’s house.

Anthology

I have seen a lot of anthologies in Wal-Mart of artists that have died.

Contemporary

I have come to find that I enjoy contemporary designs more than traditional ones.

Dilettante

I like to tell people that I have a very dilettante interest in the arts, specifically fashion.

Eclectic

I was eclectic when I read that Occidental had accepted me into the class of 2014.

Excerpt

I read an excerpt from Shakespeare’s Othello for a presentation on deception and backstabbing.

Genre

I like all genres of music and books except for metal and mysteries.

Medley

I have a strong interest in a medley of different dress designs, which makes choosing a graduation dress even more difficult.

Mural

Some students the school painted murals on the walls as a farewell.

Narrative

I’ve read so many narratives in my English classes that I have no choice but to recognize one when I read one.

I'm at the end. Now what?

The ending of the book made Mr. Yang Sun look even more scandalous than he had before. They are not getting for love Mr. Yang Sun wants to be able to get the money that he can get from being with her rather than marrying her because he loves her so much. She’s naïve at one point thinking that he loves her so much and is marrying her because of that. Everyone seems to know what he’s marrying her for. His own mother is telling him that he shouldn’t marry her if she won’t sell the tobacco shop for him. From one source I read, it talked about satire using irony as an instrument for getting the point of the satire across (Blackwell Reference Online). If this is the case, then I think irony of the way the play ends could be a type of satire if I understand correctly. The fact that the play ends kinda in the middle of things and the problem isn’t really resolved could be situational irony because the play ended the opposite of the way I expected. I expected there to be a conclusion to the ending of the situation.

From talking about satire and irony in class, I think I have a little bit of a clearer idea of what it really is. I know that I still have trouble detecting both because I struggle with tone and have always done so since middle school. Maybe the fact that I can’t pick up tone contributes to the fact that I have trouble with reading comprehension, which is linked to why I have trouble finding the satire in the play that we are reading. Also, I was having trouble understanding whether or not the whole play was a satire of something or if individual parts of the play made the play considered a satire or containing satire. Tracy brought this up in class as well. I was confused about whether or not we really need to try to see the whole play as a satire or read the play as a normal play and see if we detect satire in the individual parts of the play. As a whole, this play has definitely been a challenge for me. Even now that we’ve finished the play I still don’t think I understand the satire. Does anyone else get it???

Pavlovskis-Petit, Zoja. "26. Irony and Satire : A Companion to Satire: Ancient and

Modern : Blackwell Reference Online." Blackwell Reference Online: Home. Web. 19 Apr. 2010. .

Brecht, Bertolt, and Eric Bentley. The Good Woman of Setzuan. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota, 1999. Print.

Mastery

1. CLARITY: His accent cleared up so well that know everyone notices how he speaks with such clarity and eloquence.

2. COHERENT: She was so incoherent after 3 glasses of champagne that she started talking about politics when she was asked her name.

3. COHESIVE: I want my marriage to have love and trust be cohesive not having to chase one or the other.

4.ELOQUENCE: Jake spoke with such eloquence with his words flowing one after the other and fitting together in perfect harmony.

5. EMPHASIZE: Dave said the same sentence over and over to emphasize that we really needed to know that information for the test.

6. FLUID: I want to develop my Spanish skills to the point where I can translate between English and Spanish fluidly.

7. IMPLICATION: His comment about my hair gave the implication that he didn't like it.

8. LUCID: The way the guess teacher taught the class was a lot more lucid than the way our current teacher teaches the class.

9. RHETORIC: Dave also uses rhetoric to make sure we understand the concepts that we need to.

10. BIASED: In my statistics class, we are studying whether or not data are biased by factors like where you got the population from or how many people payed attention to the experiment.

11. EXCULPATE: Ford's exculpation of Nixon didn't really make him the most popular president.

12. IMPARTIAL: As a teacher, you can't always find the most impartial solution to every problem that arises with your students.

13. INCONTROVERTIBLE: My teacher declared the issue incontrovertible because neither side had a convincing argument.

14. INTEGRITY: His integrity about even situations that could have ended in bad consequences for him made people view him as a very trustworthy person.

15. PLAUSIBILITY: Some teachers don't really view Wikipedia as being one of the most plausible sources for a research paper because so many different people contribute to the site.

16. DISCOURSE: We had a very long discourse over the world wars changing topics every five minutes.

17. DIDACTIC: My grandma is a lot of the time didactic subconsciously telling me stories about things that are very pertinent in my life.

18. CONDESCENDING: He has a very condescending tone to the way he speaks, making everyone feel insignificant to him.

19. DICTATORIAL: He runs his class very dictatorially making every one feel like they are under his absolute control.

20. DISDAIN: Mo'nique played the role so well in the movie Precious that I disdained her character throughout the whole movie.

21. HAUGHTY: A very haughty Republican once told me the Dream Act is not worth debating. If you weren't born here, you shouldn't be given the privilege of being a citizen here in the US for ANY reason.

22. IMPERIOUS: A lot of students don't like his class because of his very imperious attitude towards the students and the school in general even though he's not the director.

23. PATRONIZING: I don't understand why some people try to patronize her for being an over-a chiever.

24. CRYPTIC: I wrote a very cryptic note to my friend for lying about what it was he was doing to let him know how much I didn't appreciate that.

25. FUTILE: I had a very futile argument with the manager of the store because they didn't want to give me the student discount.

26. IMPEDE: The rain tried to impede in the plans to go to the park that we had arranged months before, but luckily it lightened up and we were able to go anyway.

27. OBSCURE: As I was researching for my environmental science class, I realized that the idea of organic food is somewhat obscure.

28. QUANDARY: I found myself in a quandary when I found out my mom passed and I had just seen her an hour before.

29. INDOLENT: The indolent character of the book never wanted to participate in anything that had anything to do with movement.

30. INSIPID: My first time cooking spaghetti resulted in insipid disgust.

31. LISTLESS: I had a very listless spirit at the start of class because it was so early.

32. TORPOR: I felt plagued by extreme torpor after I ran the marathon.

33. ALIENATED: I felt alienated from the sorority girls because I didn't know anything about pledging.

34. ALLIANCE: I developed an alliance with my teammates whereas my opponent's team was segregated.

35. DISPARITY: I could feel the disparity between us before our first date.

36. SERVILE: I felt almost servile to the house guests giving them everything they wanted whenever they wanted it.

37. SUPPRESSED: I suppressed my feelings for him taking into account that he is 15 years older than me.

38. EMBELLISH: I embellished the plain statue to make it look more appealing to the visitors.

39. FLORID: When he came into my room my cheeks became florid and my feelings for him seeped through every part of me.

40. OPULENT: I aspire to be a very opulent and and lavish old lady someday.

41. ORNATE: I bought a very ornate Chanel purse to show all my friends.

42. OSTENTATIOUS: I put on a very ostentatious display in front of the audience to make my small role seem more important than it had been.

43. POIGNANT: I inhaled the very poignant smell of dead animal as I drove pass horrendous rode kill.

44. EBULLIENCE: My ebullience of happiness radiated through my spirit because I was so happy see my uncle make it home from the war.

45. EFFUSIVE: My emotions were effusive. How I felt carried over to everyone around me.

46. EGREGIOUS: Susan is always sure we don't have any egregious errors in our papers.

47. FLAGRANT: My lack of preparedness was flagrant to my teacher when I was asked what the book was about.

48. FRENETIC: I was frenetic when I thought I had won the lotto only to find out it was a fake ticket.

49. GRATUITOUS: When I told my mom I got a gratuitous laptop from my school, she ironically asked, "How much did it cost?"

50. SUPERFLUOUS: A lot of the times the way I feel about current events forces me to behave very superfluously in whatever direction I choose to go in.