“OVERKILL”

Hit Parade Vocab 5

HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND? WRITE ABOUT YOUR

WEEKEND USING 2 SIMPLE SENTENCES, 2 COMPLEX

SENTENCES AND 2 COMPOUND SENTENCES.

DMA November 16th 2014

1. ebullience

(Ih BOOL yuns)Noun (abstract)Def. Intense enthusiasmSample sentence: A sense of ebullience swept

over the crowd when the matador defeated the bull.

2. egregious

Uh GREE jusadjectiveDef. conspicuously bad or offensiveSample sentence: Forgetting to sterilize

surgical tools before an operation would be an egregious error.

3. flagrant

FLAY grantAdjectiveDef. extremely or deliberately shocking or

noticeableSample sentence: His throwing the pie at his

teacher was a flagrant sign of disrespect.

4. frenetic

Freh NEH tikadjectiveDef. Wildly excited or activeSample sentence: The pace at the busy office

was frenetic; Megan never had a moment to catch her breath.

5. superfluous

Soo PER floo usadjectiveDef. Extra; unnecessaryIf there is sugar in your tea, adding honey

would be superfluous.

“IT’S GETTING BETTER”

Hit Parade Vocab

1. alleviate

Uh LEEV ee aytVerbDef. to ease a pain or burdenSample sentence: John took aspirin to

alleviate the pain from the headache he got after taking the SAT.

2. asylum

Uh SY lumnounDef. a place of retreat or securityThe soldiers sought asylum from the bombs

in the underground shelter.

3. auspicious

Aw SPISH usAdjectiveDef. favorable; promisingSample sentence: Our trip to the beach had

an auspicious start; the rain stopped just as we started the car.

4. benevolent

Buh NEH vuh luntAdjectiveDef. well-meaning; generousSample sentence: She was a kind and

benevolent queen who was concerned about her subjects’ well-being.

Malevolent - having or showing a wish or desire to do evil to others.

5. mollify

MAHL uh fyVerbDef. to calm or sootheSample Sentence: Anna’s apology for scaring

her brother did not mollify him; he was mad at her all day.

6. reclamation

Rek luh MAY shunnounDef. the act of making something useful againThanks to the reclamation project, the once

unusable land became a productive farm.

7. sanction

SANK shunVerbDef. To give official authorization or approvalSample sentence: The students were happy

when the principal agreed to sanction the use of calculators in math classes.

Rhetorical Devices

1. Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”

(repetition of “f” sound)

Rhetorical Devices

2. Allusion – an indirect reference to a historical event or work of literature.

“The Director of Secondary School Principals admitted in 1981 that ‘schools are a puny David without even a slingshot against the media Goliath.’”

An allusion to the biblical story of David and Goliath. David was a small boy who took down the giant Goliath with a slingshot.

Rhetorical Devices

3. analogy – an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things.

Example:“Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a

pen is the weapon of a writer.”

Rhetorical Device

4. anaphora (a specific type of repetition)The repetition of words at the beginning of

successive clauses.Example:With malice toward none;

with charity for all; with firmness in the right,...

— Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address

Rhetorical Device

5. antimetabole: a repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast.

“As not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.” (JFK)

“Play the game don’t let the game play you.” (Macklemore)

Rhetorical Devices

6. Antithesis: Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas.Example:"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."(Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859)

Quiz on Friday

All of this week’s wordsTypes of sentences: declarative,

interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, simple, compound, complex, periodic and cumulative (to be introduced this week)

Rhetorical Devices : alliteration, allusion, anaphora, antimetabole, and antitheses.