4th Vocab Words

Sorry, I am trying to do a science lab report so I don't yet have another book review but here are some for vocab words :)

consensus |kənˈsensəs|

noun [usu. in sing. ]

general agreement : a consensus of opinion among judges | [as adj. ] a consensus view.

ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin, ‘agreement,’ from consens- ‘agreed,’ from the verb consentire.

weird |wi(ə)rd|

adjective

suggesting something supernatural; uncanny : the weird crying of a seal.

noun archaic chiefly Scottish

a person's destiny.

verb [ trans. ] ( weird someone out) informal

induce a sense of disbelief or alienation in someone.

DERIVATIVES

weirdly adverb

weirdness noun

ORIGIN Old English wyrd [destiny,] of Germanic origin. The adjective ( late Middle English ) originally meant [having the power to control destiny,] and was used esp. in the Weird Sisters, originally referring to the Fates, later the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth; the latter use gave rise to the sense [unearthly] (early 19th cent.).

concord |ˈkä ng ˌkôrd; ˈkän-|

noun

1 formal agreement or harmony between people or groups : a pact of peace and concord.

• a treaty

avarice |ˈavəris|

noun

extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French, from Latin avaritia, from avarus ‘greedy.’

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3rd Vocab Words

Here are some more interesting vocab words:

alfalfa |alˈfalfə|

noun

a leguminous plant with cloverlike leaves and bluish flowers. Native to southwestern Asia, it is widely grown for fodder(food usually dry hay for livestock). Also called lucerne . • Medicago sativa, family Leguminosae.

ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Spanish, from Arabic al-faṣfaṣa, a green fodder.

Australasia |ˌôstrəˈlā zh ə|

the region that consists of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the neighboring islands of the Pacific Ocean.

DERIVATIVES

Australasian adjective & noun

kylix |ˈkīliks; ˈkiliks|

noun ( pl. kylikes |kīliˌkēz; kili-|or kylixes)

an ancient Greek cup with a shallow bowl and a tall stem.

ORIGIN from Greek kulix.

harridan |ˈharidn|

noun

a strict, bossy, or belligerent old woman : a bullying old harridan.

ORIGIN late 17th cent. (originally slang): perhaps from French haridelle ‘old horse.’

incarnadine |inˈkärnəˌdīn; -ˌdēn| poetic/literary

noun

a bright crimson or pinkish-red color.

adjective

of a crimson or pinkish-red color.

verb [ trans. ]

color (something) a bright crimson or pinkish-red.

ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French incarnadin(e), from Italian incarnadino, variant of incarnatino ‘flesh color,’ based on Latin incarnare (see incarnate ).

ambiguous |amˈbigyoōəs|

adjective

(of language) open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning : the question is rather ambiguous | ambiguous phrases. See note at doubtful .

• unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made : this whole society is morally ambiguous | the election result was ambiguous.

DERIVATIVES

ambiguously adverb

ORIGIN early 16th cent. (in the sense [indistinct, obscure] ): from Latin ambiguus ‘doubtful’ (from ambigere ‘waver, go around,’ from ambi- ‘both ways’ + agere ‘to drive’ ) + -ous

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Hush, Hush

Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush #1) 
Becca Fitzpatrick 
✭✩✩✩✩

Hush, Hush is about a girl named Nora who is stalked by people and she thinks she is seeing things when she is with this guy called Patch. Because seeing your own death beforehand is not normal, she thinks she’s going crazy. Patch kind of creeps her out yet she STILL likes him, even though he is most likely the one who is stalking her… and trying to kill her. She also meets these other dudes who are not important until the end. At the very end there is a surprising twist (but a really weird one). Is Patch trying to save her or kill her? Who knows? The guy is a jerk.  

I have to admit, this is not one of my favorite books. I don’t know, maybe I’m just sick of angel books (I also didn’t like Embrace) but this book just didn’t do anything for me. Also I really disliked the girl, Nora; she pushed my buttons because she was constantly complaining. And I HATED the dude, Patch. He was awful and she still liked him (I saw the caption for the next book saying that he likes some annoying popular girl). Overall the book didn’t have much of a plot. I don’t know why I dislike the book so much - actually I do. The girl was weak, the dude was creepy, and this was not an original take on an angel story. And though I hate sad books and I refuse to have someone die, I kind of wish that Nora did die in the end. I probably would have freaked out in the beginning but then I don’t think I would care. You may like this book but if you have similar tastes as me you may dislike it.

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PS. Sorry if there are some weird formatting issues 
I am having a few technical difficulties because 
the site is being evil. It hates me. 

One question to think about: 
Why do most of the females in angel stories tend to be 
wimpy?  


Usually ...
The boy is an angel, the girl is a human, the angel 
has to save the weak pathetic human, and they fall
deeply in love.

The Selection

The Selection (The Selection #1)

By Kiera Cass 
★★★★★

I love The Selection!!!! It was amazing! The Selection is about a girl whose name is America Singer in a country of the future. In this country there are eight social classes. The Ones are the royal family; the Twos are really rich and are pretty much celebrities; the Threes are pretty high on the chain; the Fours are the middle class; the Fives are artists and low in the social class; the Sixes are the servants and they are poor; the Sevens and the Eights are the lowest and they are homeless, getting jobs wherever they can. America Singer is a Five but she is in love with a Six, which is pretty bad because females rarely marry down. America’s life is going pretty well until the Selection. The Selection is when 35 girls are chosen to court the prince and he will have to choose one to become his wife and queen. America is chosen as one of the 35. She goes to the palace with its rivalries and rebel danger to meet Prince Maxon. Surprisingly he is not as much of a jerk as he seemed to be (he’s stiff not jerkish but still). 

The Selection was awesome. It had no paranormal stuff, which the books I usually read have but I still loved it! I didn’t want to put the book down because the main character rocked! She was not a wimp. In the beginning Aspen (the guy from Six that she is in love with) was really sweet but then he was an annoying jerk and then at the end he was ok again. I love how America chooses to understand herself instead of choosing one of the guys that likes her. I love when books have romance but the main character is not just sucked in and the plot is not all about choosing one guy.  I ended up liking almost all the characters because they were more or less normal. I would recommend this book to people who like strong female characters and Princess/Prince stories. This book is great and I hope you will enjoy it if you read it!

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Reading Quiz

Here is a quiz I made to recommend some books you may like. Unfortunately you can't check off the boxes so just write them down or do the quiz on survey monkey (the problem with survey monkey is that I can't write the books I recommend so you will have to look back at the original page. Sorry for the inconvenience, I hope the quiz will recommend so good books for you. Link for survey monkey

 Do this quiz for book recommendations  

Instructions

Answer the following questions by choosing the response that best fits what you would want the character in a book to do in each situation.

1)		If the character in the book you want to read gets a call from a government agent they would:
	a.	Volunteer to go on the mission and kick butt
	b.	Drool over a person on the mission and then go on and on about danger
	c.	Go on the adventure and find his or her soul mate
	d.	Freak out
	e.	Go on the adventure, find out he or she has powers, and save the day

2)		If the character was stranded on a deserted island what would he or she do?
	a.	Become Robinson Crusoe and build a AWESOME tree house and invent tons of things only using material from the island
	b.	Moan and Complain and wait until help comes
	c.	Meet a person who saves him or her and fall deeply in love
	d.	Freak out, and then try to remember all the survival skills they learned
	e.	Discover Mermaids… or Peter Pan

3)		Where would your character’s story take place?
	a.	On a ship
	b.	In a car
	c.	Paris, the City of Love
	d.	High School
	e.	Small town

4)		What kind of action would you like to see your character involved in?
	a.	Fights to the Death
	b.	A conversation
	c.	Kissing after a life threatening situation
	d.	Running away from home
	e.	Super spectacular fights between supernatural natural creatures

5)		What type of plot would you want your character to be in?
	a.	Looking for the Golden Fleece
	b.	Girl trying to get guy/ guy trying to get girl
	c.	Journey to find your soul mate
	d.	Life
	e.	A fight between paranormal creatures

6)		What era are they in?
	a.	During the Viking voyages in the years 500 – 1350
	b.	Now… that is self-explanatory
	c.	Late 1500’s early 1600’s, the time in which William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet
	d.	1960’s ☮ ❤ ☺ “Here comes the sun...”
	e.	The early 18th century with the flood of superstition pertaining vampires

7)		How old is the character?
	a.	13 or 14
	b.	18
	c.	17
	d.	15
	e.	16

8)		Who is your character with?
	a.	The character is with a group of people, like in The Mysterious Benedict Society
	b.	They are all alone
	c.	With one other person (or two but then the character always has to pick a one)
	d.	A few other people
	e.	Friends and family

9)		The character usually…
	a.	Takes charge and becomes the leader of a group
	b.	Sits alone and thinks
	c.	Is making a plan for life but gets off track and falls in love
	d.	Is talking with friends
	e.	Attempting to master powers

10)		Who does the character live with?
	a.	The character is an orphan or adopted so either with a family or in a orphanage
	b.	They live with relatives
	c.	They live mostly by themselves
	d.	With a normal* family
	e.	With a single parent

* = nothing is normal so more like average

11)		What would the character do if they were being chased?
	a.	Fight and get away to plan another day
	b.	Get caught
	c.	Watch someone fight for the character then try to help
	d.	Run like the wind
	e.	Fight

Mostly A’s:

Adventure books:

1.     Invisible Tower

2.     Percy Jackson

3.     Maximum Ride

4.     The Alchemyst

5.     The Mysterious Benedict Society

6.     The Emerald Atlas

7.     The Penderwicks

8.     Nobody’s Princess

9.     The Graceling Realm

10.  The Vindico

Mostly B’s:

Not strong female books:

1.     Masque of the Red Death

2.     Juliet Immortal

3.     Tantalize

4.     Awaken

5.     Forgive My Fins

6.     Immortal City

7.     Flirting in Italian

8.     Hush, Hush 

9.     Wicked Lovely

10.  Eve

Mostly C’s:

Fav Romance books:

1.     Princess of the Midnight Ball

2.     Touch

3.     Grave Mercy

4.     Sea change

5.     Oh. My. Gods

6.     Firelight

7.     Graceling Realm

8.     Obsidian

9.     The Selection

10.  Born at Midnight

Mostly D’s:

Fav Teen characters books:

1.     Obsidian

2.     Raised by wolves

3.     Touch

4.     Sea change

5.     Gallagher girls

6.     Percy Jackson

7.     Graceling Realm

8.     Princess of the Midnight Ball

9.     Academy 7

10.  Born at Midnight

Mostly E’s:

Fav Paranormal Books:

1.     Obsidian

2.     Raised by wolves

3.     Touch

4.     Sea change

5.     Vicious Deep

6.     Firelight

7.     Maximum Ride

8.     Percy Jackson and the Olympians

9.     Graceling Realm

10.  Born at Midnight

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