6th

dross
Source sentence: Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross.

Context: Really, I don't have a clue.

Definition: something that is base, trivial, or inferior

Original Sentence: The sword smith knew nothing of dross being associated with his superior swords.

badinage
Source sentence: Wise advisers did not exchange badinage with such redoubtable characters!

Context: Small talk

Definition: light, playful banter or raillery.

Original Sentence: The badinage between the two children turned out to be the start of a lifelong friendship.

Pithy
Source sentence: Pithy sentences are like sharp nails

Context: So short that I will have to just guess, true criticism.

Definition: having substance and point

Original Sentence: When critiqued about his paper, the boy felt the pithy of their remarks and had nothing to say in return.



1 Thank Mary many times tomorrow.
2 Help my gimpy sister around the house.
3 Contemplate whether I should buy a banquet ticket or not.


In stagecraft with Jim Book, the final project is something we must draft ourselves, get signed off, and then build. I see the other classmates building simple boxlike furniture they will use at home and using our skills we have acquired from Jim. I see the simplicity and find myself seeing that as not expressing the extent at which I can express myself. So the first problem presents itself and a whole day of indecisiveness goes by with no show of progress. The next class comes around I decide to build a birdcage. I put the pencil to the paper and find that building a birdcage is something that is probably more than I can chew. By the end of the day I have a visualization and no progress, even more so that I am probably the only one not done drafting, and even more so the idea of the project gets more and more elaborate as time passes. At some point I need to stop and compromise with reality and just get it done. I look back and it has been this way with many of the projects I have done in the past. What is it that I need to fix, or do I even need to fix that? Sometimes I am thankful for my indecisiveness because I am thankful for the outcome I have achieved, but sometimes it gets me into trouble.

Fifth

halcyon
Source sentence: The phrase Halcyon days is a literary commonplace in English language and culture, signifying ideals of prosperity, bonhomie, joy, liberation, or tranquility.

Context: ideals of prosperity, bonhomie, joy, liberation, or tranquility.

Definition: a: calm, peaceful b: happy, golden c: prosperous, affluent

Original Sentence: The halcyon of spring is the essence of tranquility.

aegis
Source sentence: International action under the aegis of UNICEF held at Rukhnama school.

Context: Supervision?

Definition:
2 a: protection aegis of the Constitution> b: controlling or conditioning influence aegis of benevolent permissiveness…actually neglect their children — Time>
3 a: auspices, sponsorship aegis of the museum> b: control or guidance especially by an individual, group, or system

Original Sentence: The aegis of the small town was the steep hills surrounding it.

polyglot
Source sentence: A polyglot region without a clearly dominant culture may develop an artifical lingua franca, such as Pidgin English in the South Sea.

Context: Composing of multiple cultures

Definition: speaking or writing several languages

Original Sentence: Living in small countries in Europe, one must be a polyglot when traveling distances for close trade.


1. Fix bike
2. Study menu
3. Don't stress out during the presentation

How are you doing in your classes? What do you need to do to continue to be successful? What challenges do you face? What have you learned about reading, study skills, or yourself in this class that will help you in the next few weeks?

It seems things are becoming more and more accelerator as the semester goes on. I don't mind it if things on the home front were not so hectic. Between work and taking care of my sister and series of unfortunate events after event, it seems I just can't keep up. But I guess I'll find some way to cope with the crazy going on around me. Sometimes I wonder how I do it, or how this even happens to me. I guess being more organized would help, but I have some issues with that on a personal level. The greatest challenge I would have to overcome this semester is the fact that I have to finish this semester, and not only reading but my theatre classes as well. It seems to be over encumbering in the big picture, but with time it is manageable... I hope.
What I have learned about reading for myself is the fact that it is okay to read things more than one or even twice. I felt somewhat embarrassed about doing that on my own, but when we were forced to read something again it wasn't to bad. And I don't feel bad when skimming for information as well. In the next few weeks I see the skills we learned come together in the short weeks we have left. Saddening, but inevitable.

Fourth

gambit
Source sentence: Hollywood's next digital media gambit

Context:I would guess a company that is widely popular.

Definition: a calculated move

Original Sentence: The diner made the gambit of headlining hamburgers instead of hot dogs.

internecine
Source sentence: But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. -Wendell Willkie

Context: The word I would use in it's stead would be bloody and would still seem fine.

Definition: marked by slaughter

Original Sentence: Some internecine scenes seems senselessly cynical.

raconteur
Source sentence: He's the graceful dispenser of anecdotes, the charming raconteur and the clever story teller.

Context: Anecdote teller, says it right there

Definition: a person who excels in telling anecdotes

Original Sentence: The reconteur had no trouble writing columns for the local newspaper.




1 Re-read TTTC for clues as to how to go about doing the project
2 Star your job
3 Buy shoes for job

I am:

• slightly expressed extravert
  
• moderately expressed intuitive personality
  
• slightly expressed thinking personality
  
• moderately expressed judging personality

At first glance it seems like a horoscope that I should not take to heart easilt. But then I click ENTJ type description by D.Keirsey and see the word Fieldmarshals and suddenly become enthralled in what ENTJ is. I think it is only a general still being skeptical about it, but I see the other choices and find that I best fit with the ENTJ group. But what got me hooked really was the fact that I consider myself a great general in video games or projects that I am doing with other people. I am still skeptical about the test. For all the questions being yes and no, they were not so black and white. But for the most part I agree with the results, but nothing new like a realization or anything of the sort.
What's good about these results is that when working with people I am fantastic at completing the task at hand in a given situation. But when I am not in a group I probably will not do so well on my own. I know this, but it lets me be more creative than compromising a solution.

The third entry

PARADOX

Source Sentence: "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." -Mother Teresa

Context: I would have to say contradiction, that's all I can say.

Definition: n. a: a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true b: a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true c: an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises

Original Sentence: A paradox in society would be that prepared plans go exactly the way they should.

JUGGERNAUT

Source Sentence: "The juggernaut -- the best and biggest military force in the world -- lumbers on, doing what it knows how to do best. It is unwilling to rethink its future, unable to let go of the past. Like the shark, it must keep feeding, only now it is feeding on itself.” - William Greider

Context: An unstoppable force.

Definition: n. a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path

Original Sentence: The criminal's car was a juggernaut passing police barricade after barricade.

DIAPHANOUS

Source Sentence: "The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature." -Michael O'Donoghue

Context: With the other characteristics, outstanding beauty comes to mind.

Definition: adj. characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through

Original Sentence: The star on our Christmas tree seemed diaphanous when we lit it on Christmas day.



1 Go get my taxes done
2 Find out when I need to get training for Olive Pit
3 Try to relax, maybe hot tubing?

REFLECTION

Think of an event in your life....
The first one that comes to mind is when I was still in high school giving a presentation to my class. The topic was community service and the one that I chose to do was foster care. I did my time, done my research, and prepared my project. I proceeded to tell the class of my experience volunteering Kinship Center, a local foster care center where I used to live, which I explained was very enjoyable. A normal presentation, so far. Then I continued to what foster care does and why exists (for those who don't know, just ask me.) I told them stories of victims and participants I found on the web and of statistics concerning foster care. During this time I could see the solemn faces grow as I went along while they wondered as I kept a strait face throughout. Then finally came the Q&A of the presentation. I believe 90% of the students didn't know what a foster child was, so there was a pause until the teacher pushed a question that I don't remember so the kids can get their participation points. After my answer I saw a hand slowly rise from the students. "What made you so interested in foster care?" The question was somewhat subtle but my answer was blunt ", because I'm a foster kid." Without missing a beat I felt as if all their eyes barraged me with that all too familiar sad sympathy. I didn't tell them the circumstances of why I personally was in the situation I was in, but I don't think my teacher would let me tell them after such an emotional depression I have already put onto the class.

The second selection, "Ten Coins"

This week I'll cover the Ten Of Pentacles.

AFFLUENCE

Source Sentance: He is now rising from affluence to poverty. "Mark Twain"
Context: I'm going to say poverty is the opposite of poverty, where poverty means lack of wealth. So I would have to say affluence means having a plethora of wealth.
Definition: n- abundance of money, property, and other material goods; riches; wealth.
Original Sentence: Thomas Crapper had an affluence of effluence.

PERMANENCE

Source Sentance: We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. "Zhuangzi"
Context: In this passage, permanence it is described as not temporary.
Definition: n- the condition or quality of being permanent; perpetual or continued existence.
Original Sentence: With the ongoing years of national debt, it almost seems like a permanence.

CONVENTION

Source Sentance: By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. "Carol Bellamy"
Context: This would seem like an agreement that is put forth by a legal body that is voted to be ratified.
Definition: n- an agreement, compact, or contract.
Original Sentence: The magicians had a convention that none would reveal their secrets.



1. Job shadow Greg or Kyle
2. Sign off my hours
3. Get out of the house

1. Pack pack with construction stuff for monday.
2. Practice tennis if it stops raining.
3. Pack pack with Reading class materials on thurs.

The first selection, zero the fool

To start off, I chose to use tarot cards with their multiple meanings as my vocab. It's easy on me, easy to relate to and keep track of, and fun for some other people who might be interested in the subject. The other thing about my vocab blog that will differ from the others is that each card contains four words with the exception of the 4 knights(8 for the knights). That's 328 words for those doing the math. So an extra word wouldn't hurt now would it.

All cards will be taken from the Rider-Waite deck and mostly all of the original sentences will come from "The Fool's Journey" and will be lucky to get through the major arcana(first 22 of the 78 cards of the deck), so I may jump around how I feel like which cards have unfamiliar vocabulary. If there is enough response to tarot I'll make a post about it when that time comes.

My favorite card is the first card 0(the number) the fool.

BEGINNINGS
Source sentence:

"We begin with the Fool (0), a card of beginnings."

Context:
To begin is to start so beginnings are multiple start points.

Definition:
n. the point of time or space at which anything begins

Original sentence:
What beginnings we make for ourselves in our life will come around again when they come to an end.

Notes:
It is important to plan and pave the road ahead, but when the the task is completed it is important to start something new. The other reason why I chose this word is that it is most commonly misspelled. BegiNNings.

FAITH:

Source Sente nce:
"He is a fool because only a simple soul has the innocent faith to undertake such a journey with all its hazards and pain."

Context:
In this sentence it is described a being blind to the things around you, but believing in the outcome. So I would have to say belief is a big part of it from looking at the picture as the dog follows the fool as he goes near the cliff.

Definition:
n-confidence or trust in a person or thing.

Original Sentence:
It was not the years of martial arts that the drove fighter to win the competition, but his faith in his training and teachings that led him to victory.

SPONTANEOUS:

Source Sentence:
At the start of his trip, the Fool is a newborn - fresh, open and spontaneous.

Context:
To be open to something new is what comes to mind when I put fresh and open together but that seems like only half of it.

Definition:
adj- proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint.

Original Sentence:


FOLLY:

Source Sentence:
He is strangely empty (as is zero), but imbued with a desire to go forth and learn. This undertaking would seem to be folly, but is it?

Context:
I always thought of folly as a act of stupidity but for a goal or a reason that drove it, so stupid would probably be a suitable substitute for folly in this case.

Definition:
n- lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight.

Original Sentence:
The reporter said it was "folly" that drove the skyscraper climber caught in his quest to reach the top. But the climber, who remains anonymous, adamantly argued that he "...was well equipped, fully aware of the surroundings, and set to do what no one else has done before." He was pulled halfway in his assent to the top by local police and fire crew.