Vocab

Brouhaha - Excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event; hullabaloo.
Cloy - to be weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.
Demeanor - Conduct; behavior; deportment.
Deference - Respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc.
Enigmatic - Resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.
Definitive - Most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like.
Bumptious - Offensively self-assertive.
Choleric - Extremely irritable or easily angered.
Bulwark - A wall of earth or other material built for defense; rampart.
Curtail - To cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce.
Adamant - Utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals.
Profligate - Utterly and shamelessly immoral dissipated; thoroughly
Mawkish - Characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional.
Thwart - To oppose successful; prevent from accomplish a purpose.
Onus - A difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
Requisite - Required or necessary for particular purpose position.
Mollify - To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
Sartorial - Of or pertaining to tailors or their trade.
Presentiment - A feeling or permission that something is about to happen, especially something evil.
Impromptu - Made or done without previous preparation.
Forbearance - The act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
Remit - To transmit or send money, a check to a person or place, usually in payment.

My ranking scale

Connor Albright: 8
Andrew Alcazar: 9
Francisco Ayala: 8
Mareya Biely: 7
Ethan Clardy: 8
Des Cruz: 5
Eli Esparza: 10
Allison Fouratt: 8
Christian Hernandez: 8
Mia Hernandez: 10
Whitney Houg: 10
Nathan Limon: 5
Ricky Luna: 7
Jared Perry: 7
Malik Pope: 8
Uriel Ruiz: 8
Sarah Stevens: 10
Chase Uriarte: 5
Rudy Valentine: 7
Angelica Velez: 3 Lissette Villalobos: 3
Adam Wilkanoski
Analyssa Brown: 5
Ashley Chantry 8
Julia Chavez: 5
Austyn Childers: 6

poem

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

What would you do

If someone gave you 10 billion dollars and told you to fix the country by any means you see fit how would you do it.

comment below and tell me your answer.

Spring Vocab 2

Patronage- The power to control appointments.

Cadence- A rhythmic flow of a sequence of sound or words.

Suffused- To overspread with a liquid.

Sieve- A strainer.

Centrifuge- A compartment spun around an axis to separate contained materials of different densities.

Dentifrice- Tooth paste.

Leisure- Unhurried ease.

Vessel- A hollow container to hold liquid.

Saccharine- Excessively sweet.

Phonograph- Record player.

Profusion- Abundance.

Praetorian- Forming or resembling the Roman Imperial bodyguard.

Veiled- Having or wearing a veil or a concealing cover.

Harlequin- A character in comedy with a shaved head, masked face, tights and wooden sword.

Toil- Hard work.

Delinquents- People who commit crimes.

Gibber- To speak meaninglessly.

Insidious- Intended to entrap or beguile.

Strewn- To scatter or sprinkle.

Spring Vocab  1

Proboscis- the trunk of an elephant.

Pantomime- the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc. by gestures without speech.

Proclivities- natural or habitual inclination or tendency.

Centrifuge- an apparatus that rotates at high speeds.

Odious- deserving or causing hatred.

Jargon- the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular track, profession.

Ravenous- extremely hungry, famished.

Parlor- a room for the reception and entertainment of visitor's to one's home.

Stagnant- not flowing or running.

Cacophony- harsh disordenance of sound.

Tamped- to force in or down.

Flourish- to be in a vigorous state.

Plateau- a flat stand.

Rollick- to move or act in a carefree, frolicsome way.

Asylum- an institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill.

▶ David Foster Wallace- -This Is Water- (part 2)

▶ David Foster Wallace- -This Is Water- (part 1)