1. Grammar Starter
2. Vocabulary Review
Chapter 18
Melee - a noisy riotous fight
Inevitable - an unavoidable event
Crude - simplistic or not refined
Unscrupulous - without principles
Insolence - rude and impertinent
Atrocity - an act of shocking cruelty
Harrowing - extremely painful
Spectacle - a blunder that makes you look ridiculous
Negative - film showing an image with black and white tones reversed
Gringo - a person, especially an American, who is not Hispanic or Latino
Predicament - an unpleasant or trying situation
Jeopardy - a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
Chapter 19
Delirious - uncontrolled excitement or emotion
Preoccupied - deeply absorbed in thought
Asphyxiate - deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
Impassive - not easily excited
Nuisance - a bothersome annoying person
Profane - grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
Phlegmatic - showing little emotion
Vigilant - carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
Extinction - no longer in existence
Denounce - speak out against
Impunity - exemption from punishment or loss
Commandeer - take arbitrarily or by force
Chapter 20
Succumb - consent reluctantly
Massacre - the savage and excessive killing of many people
Genocide - systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
Pompous - puffed up with vanity
3. CoB Quiz #7 (see slideshow for quiz if you're missing class)
4. Grammar: Turn in HW paragraphs
5. Book Discussion: Character Development
6. Homework Review: Poetry Packet Take Home Test,
Study for CoB Test (use literary elements, notes from class, quizzes, and HW questions)
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