For tonight, finish reading 8-12 of Beowulf and do a reader’s response.
Here are your vocab words for the week. The quiz is on Friday.
Vocab List 2
- Aloof (adj): remote in manner; distant
- Amass (verb): collect or gather; get or gather together
- Ambiguous (adj): having more than one possible meaning; often misleading
- Ambivalence (noun): mixed feelings or emotions
- Ambulatory (adj): relating to or adapted for walking; able to walk about
- Ameliorate (verb): get better; to make better
- Amity (noun): a cordial disposition; a state of friendship and cordiality
- Anchor (noun): a central cohesive source of support and stability
- Anchor (verb): fix firm and stably
- Antagonize (verb): provoke the hostility of; act in hostility of
- Antediluvian (noun): a very old person
- Apathy (noun): the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally; an absence of enthusiasm
- Apocryphal (adj): of doubtful authenticity
- Arcane (adj): requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
- Ascendancy (noun): the state that exists when one person or group has power over another