Vocabulary Week 17

Listening to some people can be tortuous, just ask Ferris Bueller.



Despite their senescent years, the old couple still remained in love with each other.

My parents will be going to Boracay, Philippines this summer as well as other Asian countries which makes me wish I could go too so I can enjoy the tranquility of this place.

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Because Takesheti Street, a popular shopping section of Harajuku, was very crowded Rachel told our group to stay in the proximity of this long and narrow street.

The parrot's imitability of my voice seemed to be somewhat irritating.

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Before entering this super clean laboratory, I have to wear a shroud before entering also known as booties and a lab coat so that what I'm working with and the environment will not be contaminated.

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Sometimes I have to work laboriously cleaning numerous bottles, diluting samples, or just inputing data at my internship.

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Interminable means incaple of being terminated. I feel that this picture respresents that word since our close bond makes our friendship interminable.

Definitions:

imitability - capable or worthy of being imitated

interminable - incapable of being terminated
intuit - to know or receive by intuition
laboriously - equiring much work, exertion, or perseverance
proximity - nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation
reticence - disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved
senescent - growing old; aging
shroud - something that covers or conceals like a garment
situation - a place or locality
synchronously - occurring at the same time; coinciding in time
tortuous - not direct or straightforward, as in procedure or speech
tranquility - calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity

Vocabulary Week 16

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Conversely means something opposite or contrary. After going to a luau-themed party we took this picture. Everyone in the picture is smiling and looking at the camera, whereas my brother conversely covers his face with a cup of soda.

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Infatuation means foolish or all-absorbing passion. After taking so many pictures with my bffs [:p], I started to look back at ourselves and I thought we looked a bit infatuated since we were making silly poses.

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Enamored means to inspire with love and captivate. When I traveled to Japan, I was able to finally eat authentic Japanese food and it enamored me to try various types of Japanese foods aside from sushi. In this picture I was able to eat sashimi for the first time as well as a type of soup that Sumo wrestlers eat since I was in the Sumo District in Tokyo.

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Acquiesce means to agree or consent. This picture was taken before Advisory Olympics which is an annual event held by our school where each advisory competes in various games to be the ultimate advisory. My advisory members suggested that we put blue paint on our faces to look fierce, but though I was a bit hesitant I acquiesced.

Inevitability means unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped which exactly pertains to my family. You will not see me absent from school unless I'm very sick that I'd have to go to visit my doctor or for an academic purpose. In a nutshell, everyday when I wake up school is inevitable.

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Awkward means lacking grace or ease in movement. Here is a picture of myself and a fellow campmate up on a high ropes course by UCSD. Since this was my first time experiencing a climb such as this I looked everything but graceful. I felt that I looked a bit awkward trying to find a way how to reach the top and eventually balance on a beam with my partner.

Futile means incapable of producing any result or ineffective. At my internship, SPAWAR Environmental, I work with a system called the Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, depicted above here. This system analyzes samples that I've prepared and sometimes when I do not the prepare the water samples correctly or contaminate them, I end up with futile results.

This picture shows a group of ballerina's on pointe. It can represent the word deleterious, in the way that the different positions they have to go through which can cause deleterious injuries to their feet. These injuries include: Athlete's foot, heel bruising, sprains, and stress fractures.

acquiesce - agree; consent

amorous - showing or expressing love

aroma - an odor arising from spices, plants, cooking, etc

awkward - lacking grace or ease in movement

consummate - to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.

conversely - something opposite or contrary.

deleterious - injurious to health

delirium - a state of violent excitement or emotion

ecstasy - an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense feeling.

enamored - To inspire with love; captivate

futile - incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful:

incantation - the formula employed; a spell or charm.

inevitability - unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary

infatuation - foolish or all-absorbing passion or an instance of this

Vocabulary #8

After having been left alone at home by it's owner, the dog felt forlorn by itself in the house.

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Because of our misdirection, Candace and I wandered around the surrounding area of this shrine, lost for two hours.


Nowadays, it seems as if our generation loves to squander away our money regardless if we have the money or not.


If you gazed at this optical illusion for too long, I hope you don't experience a case of vertigo.

Salvador Dali, an epitome of surrealist art, is famous and well-known for his painting The Persistence of Memory which is also known as Melting Clocks.

Definitions:
epitome - a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class
revere - to regard with respect tinged with awe
vertigo - The sensation of dizziness
punitive - inflicting punishment
slander - defamation
squander - to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly
panache - a grand or flamboyant manner
forlorn - lonely and sad
quell - put an end to
concision - concise quality
libel - to misrepresent damagingly
defamation - slander or libel
misdirection - Incorrect instructions or directions

Vocabulary #7

In the movie The Painted Veil, it depicts how life was like living in a cholera endemic region.

Parrots cannot actually conversationally talk as thought to be, instead they mimic the articulation of people's words.





Recently, I have been hearing ads on the radio that our California water system may eventually go through a period of dearth if we do not limit the amount of water we use.






Though some might see the Berlin Wall constructed in East Germany as a bulwark against foreigners and westerners, it was anything but that. It was used to keep the communistic population inside the easter Germany premises.






The baby, who was born prematurely, was not able to inchoate thus having the baby stay at the hospital for one month.

Definitions:
scuttlebutt - A cask on a ship used to hold the day's supply of drinking water
bulwark - a wall of earth or other material built for defense
hubris - excessive pride or self-confidence
dearth - famine; an inadequate supply
deference - respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another
emulate - to try to equal or excel
imitate -to mimic; impersonate
mimic - to be an imitation of
endemic - Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people
aborigine - one of the original or earliest known inhabitants of a country or region.
inchoate - not yet completed or fully developed
precursor - One that precedes another
volatile - tending or threatening to break out into open violence

Vocabulary #6

Though we wish we could obviate a situation through the use of time machines, it just isn't possible.


In the Japanese Drama Hana Kimi, when Sano gets to know Mizuki he is inspired to continue high jumping with much more tenacity.

Personally, I feel this is a large amount of candy but in Candace's mind this amount is just a paucity of candy because she has seen the interior of M&Ms world in Las Vegas.

Cassette tapes have become obsolete because cars no longer instal cassete tape players into their sound system.

The people of the Philippines staged a People Power 2 in the mid-1990s because they found President Joseph Estrada embezzled large amounts of money from the government funds.

Definitions
Embezzle - To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust
Emaciate - to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
Obsolete - no longer in general use
Obviate - prevent the occurrence of
Penchant - A definite liking; a strong inclination
Paucity - smallness of quantity
Sycophant - a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
Taut - tightly drawn
Tenuous - lacking in clarity
Tenacity - persistent determination

Vocabulary #5

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My cousins , as well as my best friends, act as a bolster when I am in need of support or uplifting.


Despite their known dispute among their friends, their hug showed them to be conciliatory.


These teenagers are participating in an unhealthy, let alone complicit habit.

Lack of fidelity could be one of the factors for marriages ending up in divorce.


The Argentinians in this picture are in a state of insurrection towards the current US politics and the high unemployment rate in Argentina

Definitions:
1. lucidity - easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
2. conciliatory - To make or attempt to make compatible; reconcile
3. countermand - to revoke or cancel
4. acumen - Quickness, accuracy
5. insurrection - an act or instance of rising in revolt
6. fidelity - loyalty
7. complicit - choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, esp. with others
8. steadfast - firm in purpose, resolution, faith
9. emancipation - freeing someone from the control of another
10. bolster - support and strengthen

Vocabulary #3

What looks as if it used to be a lovely private beach, was now disseminated with trash everywhere.



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The cathedral that my family visited in Italy was renovated so that the building will stay in tact for more years to come and the many more tourists can visit.


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Anna smiled with a sanguine expression on her face after her friend told her to make a wish after blowing the dandelion.




William Shakespeare wrote with such eloquence, that his works are still being admired and read today and is known as one of the greatest poet and playwright in history.




Though many people who receive medication such as Prozac, an anti-depressants, there is a risk that they can relapse back into there depressed state and can inflict a greater harm to themselves.




Definitions:

1. Disseminate (v) - To scatter widely
2. Eloquence (n) - the power of expressing feelings or thoughts in words that impress or move other people
3. Austere (adj) - grave; sober; solemn; serious
4. Baleful (adj) - pernicious/ or sinister
5. Bigot (n) - a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
6. Relapse (n) - falling back into a former state
   (v) - to fall back into vice
7. Repudiate (v) - to cast off or disown
8. Resilience (n) - ability to recover readily from illness, depression
9. Sanguine (adj) - cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
10. Renovate (v) - to restore to good condition

Vocabulary #2

We can easily eradicate our words that are written on paper, as seen here.
After building the sand castle, she decided to quickly eradicate it since she didn't think it was a good enough sand castle and decided to build a new one.



When I look at this painting the first vocab word that comes to mind is erratic. It reminds me of those Disney cartoons I would watch when I was a little kid, but this picture looks a bit more eccentric.
He always liked to stand out, which is why he would wear such erratic clothing that included a shirt made out of a plastic bag.

These cars probably looked very spiffy when they were brand new, but now it looks as if they are completely eroding.
The heavy rains caused the land to erode, thus resulting the landslide.

Before the decease's caskets were laid to the ground, a priest/pastor/whoever would say a eulogy to honor the person.
My brother recited a eulogy after Maraschino, our Betta fish, died.

First look at this picture, it is obvious that this girl in a tutu is experiencing a shot of euphoria.
I had a feeling of euphoria after finding out I get to go to Japan.



Definitions:

1) equivocate - to avoid making an explicit statement
2) eradicate - to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate
3) erode - destroy by slow consumption or disintegration
4) erratic - eccentric; queer
5) escalate - to increase in intensity
6) esoteric - understood by or meant for only the select few
7) espouse - to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause
8) eulogy - a set oration in honor of a deceased person
9) euphoria - a feeling of happiness
10) euthanasia - mercy killing
11) epitome - a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class

Vocabulary Week #1

Heritage is defined as something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth. In the picture above, it depicts the different Filipino folk dances that have been a part of the different people living in the different regions in the Philippines. Even here in the US there are many dance studios that offer Filipino folk dancing and is a part of the Filipino heritage.
Though I was born in the US I am still aware of my Filipino heritage.



At first glance, this picture can be seem as a random array of color, but I'd see it better being defined as desultory. With all the different random colors mixed together, desultory is an appropriate word.
Though he is a straight-A student his work showed to be desultory since he would only study for tests and inconsistently turn in homework.



Though it may not be clearly seen in this black and white picture, it shows soldiers on the battlefield showing an act of intrepid, fearlessly courageous.
After the little boy had just been bit by the spider, he did not complain or cry and even remained intrepid towards the spider and squished it.

A state of alarm or dread can clearly be seen in this picture and would otherwise be known as trepidation.Though the expression of trepidation is painted on her face, I can't imagine what caused this.
Hearing the door creak open, she went down the stairs not knowing what to expect. As she neared towards the living room a man held a gun that was pointed in her direction and she was left with utter alarm and trepidation.



Although this does not show the feeling of despondency, the weather can cause it. The dark overcast and the dilapidated conditions of the dock may inflict the emotion of gloominess or being despondent.
Living in Seattle, she says that sometimes the despondent weather can be a bit depressing.


Definitions
1. intrepid - resolutely courageous; fearless
2. trepidation - a state of alarm or dread; apprehension
3. despondent - feeling/showing profound hopelessness or gloom
4. decorum - propriety in manners and conduct
5. aspire - to long, aim, or seek ambitiously
6. vacillate - to be indecisive or irresolute
7. desultory - lacking in consistency; random
8. fallacy - a deceptive, misleading, or false notion
9. formidable - causing fear, apprehension, or dread
10. heritage - something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth
11. guru - an intellectual or spiritual guide or leader