Tuesday, October 25, 2011

5 words (vocabulary presentation) by Baybe Enna Thom

5 words (vocabulary presentation)

 1) ARROGANT
    Meaning:Believing that your are better or more important
                 than other people.
    IPA: ar'a-gant
   Synonyms:Proud
   Antonyms:Polite
   Words:Sam told to Jane that he is arrogant than Max and Vella.

2)ASSERTIVE
   Meaning:Behaving or speaking in a strong.
   IPA: a-sur'tiv
   Synonyms:Decisive,Confident
   Antonyms:Bashful,Shy
   Words:The politician must assertive when speaking in front of society.
    
3)CONTRADICT
   Meaning:To say that what someone else has just
                   said is wrong.
    IPA: kontra'dikt
   Synonyms:Deny
   Antonyms:Support,Agree
   Words:The guys always contradict what the lecturer said in their English class.


4)EXQUISITE
   Meaning: Very beautiful or perpect. 
   IPA: Ik'sk wizit
   Synonyms: Lovely,Charming
   Antonyms: Ugly,Unlovely
   Words:I always imagine that the heaven is exquisite place.

5)FRIVOLOUS
  Meaning: Silly and not serious.  
  IPA:  friv'a-les
 Synonyms: Flippant,Trivial,Foolish 
 Antonyms:Serious,Earnest,Responsible  
 Words: Mary looking frivolous when Stalone giving her one thousand roses flower.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Vocabulary Presentation


Vocabulary Presentation
Vocabulary
IPA
Antonym
Synonym
Meaning
Word
Aegrotat
ee'gro-tat
Healthy
Sick
*Aegrotat is a medical certificate of illness excusing student's sickness. *He is sick.
*Josh can’t come to school because he aegrotat.
Acquiesce

ac·qui·esce
Contest, protest. 
Accede, concur, and capitulate. 
*To agree or express agreement.
*Avoiding public tantrums is a major reason we acquiesce and that why we need compromise.
Atrabilious
at·ra·bil·ious
Patient, not easily upset
Irritable, bad-tempered
*Its about our bad emotions.
*Why are you so atrabilious?
*My dad so atrabilious because I fail my English exam.
Copacetic
co·pa·cet·ic
Bad, not excellent, unsatisfactory
good or even excellent completely satisfactory
*Something that we do and say in the right thing.
*Your work is so copacetic.
*The speech from our government is so copacetic.
Cancrizans
kang'kri-zanz
moving fowards
moving backwards
*use in music or some movement.
*The Musical team repeating the theme cancrizans but it’s so lovely to hear.