For tonight, read “The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in your lit book if you were gone from class. It starts on page 636.
Here is the vocabulary list for the week:
Vocabulary List 17
- Cantankerous (adj): bad tempered; quarrelsome
- Deciduous (adj): losing leaves in the fall; short-lived, temporary
- Decimated (v): kill or destroy a large part of
- Effulgent (adj): brilliantly shining; radiant
- Effusive (adj): gushing; demonstrative
- Fastidious (adj): careful with details; hard to please
- Fatuous (adj): foolishly self-satisfied
- Germane (adj): appropriate in subject matter; relevant
- Germinal (adj): just growing; not developed; immature
- Heinous (adj): odious; monstrous
- Hermetic (adj): tightly sealed; airtight
- Immoderate (adj): excessive; extreme
- Immutable (adj): incapable of being changed
- Jollity (n): the condition of being jolly; amusement
- Judicious (adj): sensible and careful; wise