Honors English: 3rd Period Scribe
Claire Jones
Today in class, we went over our Lesson Five SAT Exercise words, which will be due on Friday (as usual).
The words are:

1. fop (n.) an excessively fashion conscious man
2. imprecation (n.) a curse
3. non sequitur (n.) something that does not logically follow
4. sanguine (adj.) cheerful; optimistic
5. bowdlerize (v.) to remove offensive passages of a play, novel, etc.
6. impair (v.) to weaken; to cause to become worse
7. panegyric (n.) an expression of praise
8. quandary (n.) a puzzling situation; a dilemma
9. ebullient (adj.) enthusiastic
10. deference (n.) respect; consideration
11. carnal (adj.) relating to physical appetite, especially sexual
12. nebulous (adj.) hazy; vague; uncertain
13. rakish (adj.) dashingly stylish and confident
14. elegy (n.) a sad or mournful poem
15. pedantic (adj.) tending to show off one's learning 

The rest of class was spent with our Reader's Theater group.
*REMINDER* Reader's Theater annotations, performances, and scripts are due Thursday.