Spring Vocabulary #3

1. Apostate - person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle

2. Effusive - expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure in unrestrained or heartfelt manner

3. Impasse - situation in which no progress is possible

4. Euphoria - feeling or state of intense excitementand happiness

5. Lugubrious - looking or sounding sad or dismal

6. Bravado - bold manner or a show of boldness intended  to impress or intimidate

7. Consensus - majority of opinion; general agreement or concord; harmony

8. Dichotomy - division into two parts; into contradictory groups

9. Constrict - compress; to draw or press in; contradictory groups

10. Gothic - pertaining to the Middle Ages; medieval; barbarous or crude

11. Punctilio - fine point, particular, or detail as of conduct, ceremony or procedure

12. Metamorphosis - a form resulting from any such change

13. Raconteur - a skilled person who relates stories and anecdotes interestingly

14. Sine Qua Non - something essential

15. Quixotic - impulsive, often rashly unpredictable; resembling Don Quixote de la Mancha

16. Vendetta - any bitter feud, rivalry, contention or the like

17. Non Sequitor - statement containing an illogical conclusion

18. Mystique - mystery or mystical power surrounding an occupation or pursuit

19. Quagmire - a bog; anything soft or flabby

20. Parlous - perilous, dangerous; to a large extent; greatly

I, Culminating Senior Project

The proposal I have in mind is to create another blog where I show my interests to Dr. Preston and to the whole cyberweb. It will probably include some of the written work from my Environmental Science class and some other writing I may come up with.

Gold in the Mine

For those of you that are late at night trying to finish research papers, I have some tips. Try to take breaks, eat some food so your are not yawning, and make sure you are studying somewhere you know you will concentrate. 

UPDATE : FEBRUARY 20, 2014
I have just found a website that has the vocabulary words that I need. Maybe two websites actually

Life After... some distant future

The vision I have for the future is to start working getting out of high school and attend Allan Hancock College. I see myself more as an independent person, but also helping out my family with parts of the paycheck that I will be earning. I also see myself driving. In about 20 to 30 years, I would be really old, still working, but in my career now, not some grocery store chain. 

Spring Vocabulary #2

1. Accoutrements - to outfit and equip, especially for a purpose
2. Apogee - the farthest or highest point
3. Apropos - appropriately; pertinently
4. Bicker - to engage in petty quarreling ( to disagree angrily)
5. Coalesce - to grow or come together so as to form one whole
6. Contretemps - inopportune or embarrassing occurence
7. Convolution - tortuous winding, folding, or twisting together
8. Cull - to pick out, select; to gather, collect
9. Disparate - completely distinct or different; dissimilar
10. Dogmatic - marked by an authoritarian, often arrogant assertion of principles
11. Licentious - morally unrestrained
12. Mete - to deal out; allot
13. Noxious - injurous to health or morals
14. Polemic - controversy, argument, or refutation
15. Populous - thickly settled or populous
16. Probity - integrity, and honesty
17. Repartee - a swift, witty reply; conversation characterized
18. Supervene - to come or occur as something extraneous, additional, or unexpected
19. Truncate - to shorten by or as if by cutting off the end
20. Unimpeachable - beyond doubt or question

SENTENCES:
1. I bought some accoutrements to replace the old wind turbines because they were really beaten up by the weather.
2. My apogee in life is to be in an environmental studies career, whether it be an engineer or a lawyer for the environment.
3. The student` s comment was not apropos because he said somtehing very disrespectful and racist.
4. The elder lady on the bus, going home from school, always bickers with someone that doesn` t seem to know her very well.
5. Mega search engine Google and thermostat maker Nest have coalesced to provide the typical American home a more personalized and "smart home" experience with reminders and advertisements for your specific type of lifestyle.
6. A TV show where they air lots of funny contretemps is America`s Funniest Videos on ABC, and it shows how people can really just be nonresponsive to the world around them.
7. Convolutions were a typical and common thing in medieval times because if you could torture the prisoner, you could get their confessions out and be pardoned, or just sentenced to death.
8. I like to cull out the nice pieces of paper when I am doing a project because I like it when my paper is clean and neat.
9.  You are totally disparate from your cousin; you have no athletic skills and don`t have very good academic grades.
10. The college and career counselor is very dogmatic when it comes to deadlines because she wants us to be responsible for our own things now and in the future.
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Spring Vocabulary #1 Quiz Review

I believe I did not do good on the quiz because I really didn`t study the vocabulary words for it. Although they were only ten words to know, I think I could`ve done a better job by reviewing the words the morning before or the Sunday afternoon, or even both days.

Hacking My Education this Last and Final High School Spring Semester (Boo hoo boo hoo!)

The way that I would like to hack my education this year is to try to work around the idea of my future career which is being an environmental engineer. So, for example, in my Health and AP Environmental Science classes, I can use those classes to my most biggest advantage and try to learn even more from other classes this spring.

Spring Vocabulary #1

1. Adumbrate - to foreshadow vaguely, to suggest or disclose partially

2. Apotheosis - elevation to divine status, a "perfect" example

3. Ascetic - practicing self denial strictly, especially for religious, harshly simple

4. Bauble - trinket, a jester's scepter

5. Beguile - decieve by cunning means, to cause to pass pleasantly

6. Burgeon - expand rapidly and wildly, to put forth new growth, to burst into bloom

7. Complement - something that fills up, completes, or makes perfect

8. Contumacious - stubbornly perverse or rebellious, willfully and obstinately disobedient

9. Curmudgeon - bad tempered, difficult, cantankerous person

10. Didactic - intended to teach particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

SENTENCES: 

1. I adumbrate tha tour supply of oil reserves in a global scale will be diminished by the year 2045, and will add to the already global warming incident going on.

2. Jimmy has such an apotheosis personality to him that everyone, even the guys, surround him at lunchtime. 

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New Year 2014 from Times Square

This video was taken from somebody else in New York`s famous Times Square. Enjoy !!!