2nd Vocab Words

Here are some more interesting vocab words (fie was on my humanities vocab test for the book Macbeth)

fie |fī|

exclamation archaic or humorous

used to express disgust or outrage : if people don't answer your first letter, fie on them!

Urania |yoŏˈrānēə| Greek & Roman Mythology

the Muse of astronomy.

ORIGIN Greek, literally ‘heavenly (female).’

akebia |əˈkēbēə|

noun

a climbing shrub with purplish flowers, deeply divided leaves, and purple berries. Native to eastern Asia, it is grown as an ornamental in North America. • Akebia quinata, family Lardizabalaceae.

ORIGIN 1837: modern Latin, coined by J. Decaisne, French botanist, from Japanese akebi.

ghee |gē|

noun

clarified butter made from the milk of a buffalo or cow, used in Indian cooking.

ORIGIN from Hindi ghī, from Sanskrit ghṛtá ‘sprinkled.’

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Pictures of me reading

I have no clue why but I decided to take some photos of me reading and stuff for my Personal Odyssey, so yeah here are some pics of me that my friend Laurel took:

I look sort of dead, but not as much as in this other picture that is really creepy :)

This is me reading a book not surprisingly

This is the section of books for the reviewers, none of these books have come out yet!

I don't have a neck, and they are about to fall down

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Fav Human, Historical, Not Strong, and Paranormal Books

These are some of my favorite books I have read in the past year separated into different categories. In case you decide when you see the not strong female books to say you don't want to read them, you shouldn't. Just because I feel the characters are a little wimpy does not mean its a bad book, in fact I really liked a lot of the books that had wimpish characters. These books are really good and I hope that if you do read them you will like them :) ps. only the paranormal and the not strong female books are arranged in most fav to least fav


Paranormal Books:

1.     Raised by wolves

2.     Percy Jackson and the Olympians

3.     Born at Midnight

4.     Obsidian

5.     Sea change

6.     Vicious Deep

7.     Firelight

8.     Touch

9.     Maximum Ride

10.  Graceling Realm

Not strong female books:

1.     Immortal City

2.     Tantalize

3.     Forgive My Fins

4.     Eve

5.     Juliet Immortal

6.     Awaken

7.     Masque of the Red Death

      8.   Flirting in Italian

Historical fiction

1.     Grave Mercy

2.     Princess of the Midnight Ball

3.     A Northern Light

4.     Macbeth

5.     Nobody’s Princess  

 

Human Modern Day:

1.     Gallagher girls

2.     Belles

3.     Heist Society

4.     Flirting in Italian

5.     Ghost Flower

6.     The Emerald Atlas

7.     The Mysterious Benedict Society

8.     Bluefish

9.     Every Soul A Star

10. The Penderwicks

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Link to Goodreads

This is the link to a site called good reads that I used for my Personal Odyssey and just for fun to find cool new books I want to read. If you friend me (J) you can see the books I want to read and the 102+ books that I have read :)

 http://www.goodreads.com/

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1st Vocab Words

These are some cool words that I have recently found the definition too:

avarice |ˈavəris|

noun

extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

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

eradicate |iˈradiˌkāt|

verb [ trans. ]

destroy completely; put an end to : this disease has been eradicated from the world. See note at destroy.

DERIVATIVES

eradicable |-kəbəl| adjective

debauchery |diˈbô ch ərē|

noun

excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

Try to use these in a sentence! 

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Obsidian

Obsidian (Lux, Book 1)

Jennifer L. Armentrout
★★★★★

I read this about two weeks ago and it was very entertaining. Obsidian is about a girl named Katy who moves into a small town in West Virginia. She becomes friends with the girl next door (Dee) even though it is obvious that Dee’s brother (Daemon) hates Katy. Like extremely. For apparently no reason. She never suspected that her new neighbors were aliens, and that other aliens are out to kill them and take their powers. After Damon saves her life, he and Katy are stuck together (which she has some seriously mixed feelings about) because the people who are after him are now after her.

Obsidian was an awesome book! It was really funny in parts and I could not put it down. Even though the book didn’t have a high action plot it had tons of funny conversations between Katy and Daemon so I was very entertained. The ending to this book was quite AWESOME! And the bit before that was really sweet. Daemon is a total jerk, and Katy doesn’t fall for him which is good because some girls do fall for the jerks and I hate it! (like in Hush, Hush … ugh I didn’t like that book very much). Anyway Obsidian was great and the next one (Onyx) is coming out in August!!! 

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