Monday, December 15, 2008

December 15,2008 - Homework

Homework: Vocabulary words: Research definitions and include in complete sentences. Update your Blogs and please have distort your image to recognize that of Dorian's at this time.

servility: slavishly submissive or relating to servitude or forced labor
garrulous: Social, talkative, Wordy
impecuniosity: Lacking money; penniless
obsequious: obedient; dutiful
renunciations: A declaration in which something is renounced
sensual: lacking in moral restraints; lewd or unchaste
poignant: affecting or moving the emotions
fopperies: Foolish quality or action
profligacy: great abundance;Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant
pathos: Anything that evokes a feeling of pity or compassion
alchemist: a person who is versed in or practices alchemy
frescoes: the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture
calumnies: a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something
ego: the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
ennui: feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom

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