World Lit Homework 10-5-2020
No homework for tonight. Make sure you have three sources for your paper on Thursday.
Also, this is the final vocab list for the quarter, so make sure you study. The words are:
Vocabulary List 5
- Facile (adj): easily done; agreeable
- Gambit (n): opening move; transaction
- Garble (v): to make misleading selections from facts; confuse
- Hapless (adj): unfortunate
- Harbinger (n): anything that foreshadows a future event
- Ignoble (adj): of low quality
- Ignominious (adj): shameful, disgraceful
- Jargon (n): meaningless talk; language used by a particular group
- Jaundiced (adj): affected by envy or hostility; prejudiced
- Kinetic (adj): related to motion; lively
- Knell (n): a mournful sound; a sign announcing the death of a person
- Lachrymose (adj): causing tears; tearful
- Lackluster (adj): dull; lacking spirit
- Machinations (n): crafty schemes
- Maelstrom (n): a situation full of strong emotions or confusing events; whirlpool