semester 1 (2015-16)
( Base Tier, Top Tier)
All "In Writing" words and sentences are from this Winter Break freewrite-
All "In Writing" words and sentences are from this Winter Break freewrite-
Mastery words
1) Malicious: having the nature of threatening evil.
Novel Sentence: “...announcing to no one in particular but with a sort of malicious glee: ‘Well, sailors, grit your teeth. It’s twenty below, for sure’” (Solzhenitsyn 7).
Stand-alone: Something about his malicious grin sends shivers down my spine.
In Writing: #1 Procrastination is one of my malicious addictions.
#2Not having any commitments and procrastinating may at first seem like your salvation from all the stress of school and work, but as time passes it becomes a malicious addiction, that will sooner or later end any chance of personal growth.
2) Severe: unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment.
Novel Sentence: “The frost was severe, but not as severe as the squad leader” (Solzhenitsyn 59).
Stand-alone: My teacher is always so severe with grading, especially when it comes to class projects.
In Writing: I begin to resent myself and everything because I know deep down that I am capable of greater things, but whenever I begin to stray from my designated path of known and comfort, then my mind goes into a severe state of panic and self sabotage.
3) Ration: a fixed portion that is allotted.
Novel Sentence: “A cleverly fixed work report meant good rations for five days” (Solzhenitsyn 82).
Stand-alone: I must ration my trick-or-treat candies, or else I might finish them all today.
In Writing: So in addition to enjoying some romcoms that made me bawl like a baby, rationing the amount of junk food i allow myself to eat, and trying to improve my dexterity by attempted juggling, I have again experienced a lesson of responsibilities and balance.
4) Bawl: cry loudly.
Novel Sentence: Tiurin was bawling out someone else down below” (Solzhenitsyn 96).
Stand-alone: The grown men bawled their eyes out miserably after they lost the Quittage World Cup.
In Writing: So in addition to enjoying some romcoms that made me bawl like a baby, rationing the amount of junk food i allow myself to eat, and trying to improve my dexterity by attempted juggling, I have again experienced a lesson of responsibilities and balance.
5) Ingenuous: lacking in sophistication or worldliness.
Novel Sentence: “He smiled ingenuously, revealing the gaps in his teeth, the result of a touch of scurvy at Ust-Izhma in 1943” (Solzhenitsyn 13).
Stand-alone: Brain strongly believes the reason Pinkey is ingenuous is because he lived in a cage his whole life.
In Writing: So please, if you are, do not feel any commiseration for me, fore it was my half-ingenuousness that led me to believe that I could leave all my winter break homework till the last day and still be fine.
6) Commiseration: feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others.
Novel Sentence: “'You shouldn’t have shown your pride so much,' he said, shaking his head in commiseration” (Solzhenitsyn 49).
Stand-alone: A song of commiseration goes out to all the losers of the 2015 Quittage World Cup.
In Writing: So please, if you are, do not feel any commiseration for me, fore it was my half-ingenuousness that led me to believe that I could leave all my winter break homework till the last day and still be fine.
7) Neglect: leave undone or leave out.
Novel Sentence: “Without neglecting a single fish scale or particle of flesh on the brittle skeleton, Shukov went on chomping his teeth and sucking the bones, spitting the remains on the table” (Solzhenitsyn 17).
Stand-alone: I regret the fact I neglected you because I wasn't strong enough.
In Writing: #1 Neglecting one’s responsibilities while you sit there addled as the world passes you by is not the way to live.
#2 Now I know that it is not to my vantage to deliberately neglect my responsibilities and to waste my time doing things that will make me resent my actions later.
8) Deliberate: carefully thought out in advance.
Novel Sentence: “Waiting for work to start, or turned in for the night, they went on talking to each other in their quiet, deliberate manner” (Solzhenitsyn 48).
Stand-alone: You deliberately picked a fight with me, just so you could make a scene.
In Writing: #1 I deliberately seek out means of distraction to guarantee self sabotage and kill any vantage in my work or life that begin to emerge.
#2 Now I know that it is not to my vantage to deliberately neglect my responsibilities and to waste my time doing things that will make me resent my actions later.
9) Barren: completely wanting or lacking.
Novel Sentence: “The steppe was barren and windswept, with a dry wind in the summer and a freezing one in winter“ (Solzhenitsyn 71).
Stand-alone: My world feels barren and pointless without the existence of chocolate chip ice-cream.
In Writing: #1 It’s when those days become weeks, and those weeks turn into what seems like one long miserably barren day.
#2 Routines are not always a boring thing, but necessary if you wish to grow in life and move forward, rather than stuck addled in a barren life of murderous misery.
10) Disdainful: showing arrogant superiority to those one views as unworthy.
Novel Sentence: “In fact, Solzhenitsyn had a rather disdainful attitude towards liberals” (Yevtushenko X).
Stand-alone: She ran her eyes over me with a disdainful expression.
11) Imperiously: in a manner showing arrogant superiority.
Novel Sentence: “At that very moment his blanket and jacket were imperiously jerked off him” (Solzhenitsyn 7).
Stand-alone: He was an imperious king, who ruled with a high hand.
12) Murder: unlawful premeditated killing of a human being.
Novel Sentence: "In denouncing Stalin as a murderer in 1956 at the Twentieth Party Congress, Khrushchev did not find the courage to repent for his own role in the repressions" (Yevtushenko ix).
Stand-alone: If I eat cereal for breakfast, does that mean I'm murdering the cereal like a cereal killer?
In Writing: True at first a break from everything feels great, and not having any responsibilities or murderous homework due anytime soon lifts this great weight off your shoulders.
#2 Routines are not always a boring thing, but necessary if you wish to grow in life and move forward, rather than stuck addled in a barren life of murderous misery.
13) Contradictory: unable to be both true at the same time.
Novel Sentence: "His hero was not a rebel against the camp regime, someone who considered that regime to be abnormal and contradictory to common sense." --> no in-text citation given
Stand-alone: Contradictory to popular opinion, I would actually love to go to prom.
In Writing: Then the idea of not having a routine by doing nothing contradicts itself.
14) Resentful: full of or marked by indignant ill will.
Novel Sentence: “Had Shukhov been punished for something he deserved he wouldn’t have felt so resentful” (Solzhenitsyn 8).
Stand-alone: She isn't a bad person at heart, but her actions make me resent her.
In Writing: #1 I begin to resent myself and everything because I know deep down that I am capable of greater things, but whenever I begin to stray from my designated path of known and comfort, then my mind goes into a severe state of panic and self sabotage.
#2 I had very little motivation except for the fear of being resented by people who wanted to spend time with me, if after i had already told them i had to study, they later found out that I didn’t use that time to do my work.
#3 Now I know that it is not to my vantage to deliberately neglect my responsibilities and to waste my time doing things that will make me resent my actions later.
15) Dexterous: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands.
Novel Sentence: “He dexterously pulled his feet out of the valenki, put the valenki in the corner…” (Solzhenitsyn 13).
Stand-alone: A pickpocketer must be quick and dexterous, in and out without turning any heads.
In Writing: So in addition to enjoying some romcoms that made me bawl like a baby, rationing the amount of junk food i allow myself to eat, and trying to improve my dexterity by attempted juggling, I have again experienced a lesson of responsibilities and balance.
16) Ostensibly: from appearances alone.
Novel Sentence: “And so we have One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - ostensibly one day in the life of a gulag prisoner” (Solzhenitsyn 174).
Stand-alone: She made a snide remark towards my shoes, ostensibly to make me feel self-conscious.
In Writing: No matter how many times I blink or widen my eyes like a panda on steroids I can’t keep them open, ostensibly in a state of near death
17) Addle: mix up or confuse.
Novel Sentence: “'Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling'"(Shakespeare Act 3, Scene 1).
Stand-alone: I'm afraid your attempts to woo me has left me quite addled.
In Writing: #1 Neglecting one’s responsibilities while you sit there addled as the world passes you by is not the way to live.
#2 Routines are not always a boring thing, but necessary if you wish to grow in life and move forward, rather than stuck addled in a barren life of murderous misery.
18) Nip: sever or remove by pinching.
Novel Sentence: ”The frost was trying to nip his ears…” (Solzhenitsyn 11).
Stand-alone: Whenever I tried to clean my turtles tank, he would always be frightened and try to nip me.
In Writing: While the thought of sleep hangs over my head, cold air nips at my naked feet which have begun to lose all source of circulation… This is the pain you experience when you don’t sleep.
19) Salvation: means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness.
Novel Sentence: ”Let your work warm you up, that was your only salvation” (Solzhenitsyn 6).
Stand-alone: On a freezing cold night, Starbucks is my only salvation.
In Writing: #1 My only possible salvation is coffee, which I had consumed at 5:30 in the morning
#2 Not having any commitments and procrastinating may at first seem like your salvation from all the stress of school and work, but as time passes it becomes a malicious addiction, that will sooner or later end any chance of personal growth.
20) Vantage: place or situation affording some benefit.
Novel Sentence: “'I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, which now to claim my vantage doth invite me'” (Hamlet: 5.2).
Stand-alone: When stalking my cat, I find hiding in a Hello Kitty onesie gives me the best vantage point.
In Writing: #1 I deliberately seek out means of distraction to guarantee self sabotage and kill any vantage in my work or life that begin to emerge.
#2 Now I know that it is not to my vantage to deliberately neglect my responsibilities and to waste my time doing things that will make me resent my actions later.
Novel Sentence: “...announcing to no one in particular but with a sort of malicious glee: ‘Well, sailors, grit your teeth. It’s twenty below, for sure’” (Solzhenitsyn 7).
Stand-alone: Something about his malicious grin sends shivers down my spine.
In Writing: #1 Procrastination is one of my malicious addictions.
#2Not having any commitments and procrastinating may at first seem like your salvation from all the stress of school and work, but as time passes it becomes a malicious addiction, that will sooner or later end any chance of personal growth.
2) Severe: unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment.
Novel Sentence: “The frost was severe, but not as severe as the squad leader” (Solzhenitsyn 59).
Stand-alone: My teacher is always so severe with grading, especially when it comes to class projects.
In Writing: I begin to resent myself and everything because I know deep down that I am capable of greater things, but whenever I begin to stray from my designated path of known and comfort, then my mind goes into a severe state of panic and self sabotage.
3) Ration: a fixed portion that is allotted.
Novel Sentence: “A cleverly fixed work report meant good rations for five days” (Solzhenitsyn 82).
Stand-alone: I must ration my trick-or-treat candies, or else I might finish them all today.
In Writing: So in addition to enjoying some romcoms that made me bawl like a baby, rationing the amount of junk food i allow myself to eat, and trying to improve my dexterity by attempted juggling, I have again experienced a lesson of responsibilities and balance.
4) Bawl: cry loudly.
Novel Sentence: Tiurin was bawling out someone else down below” (Solzhenitsyn 96).
Stand-alone: The grown men bawled their eyes out miserably after they lost the Quittage World Cup.
In Writing: So in addition to enjoying some romcoms that made me bawl like a baby, rationing the amount of junk food i allow myself to eat, and trying to improve my dexterity by attempted juggling, I have again experienced a lesson of responsibilities and balance.
5) Ingenuous: lacking in sophistication or worldliness.
Novel Sentence: “He smiled ingenuously, revealing the gaps in his teeth, the result of a touch of scurvy at Ust-Izhma in 1943” (Solzhenitsyn 13).
Stand-alone: Brain strongly believes the reason Pinkey is ingenuous is because he lived in a cage his whole life.
In Writing: So please, if you are, do not feel any commiseration for me, fore it was my half-ingenuousness that led me to believe that I could leave all my winter break homework till the last day and still be fine.
6) Commiseration: feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others.
Novel Sentence: “'You shouldn’t have shown your pride so much,' he said, shaking his head in commiseration” (Solzhenitsyn 49).
Stand-alone: A song of commiseration goes out to all the losers of the 2015 Quittage World Cup.
In Writing: So please, if you are, do not feel any commiseration for me, fore it was my half-ingenuousness that led me to believe that I could leave all my winter break homework till the last day and still be fine.
7) Neglect: leave undone or leave out.
Novel Sentence: “Without neglecting a single fish scale or particle of flesh on the brittle skeleton, Shukov went on chomping his teeth and sucking the bones, spitting the remains on the table” (Solzhenitsyn 17).
Stand-alone: I regret the fact I neglected you because I wasn't strong enough.
In Writing: #1 Neglecting one’s responsibilities while you sit there addled as the world passes you by is not the way to live.
#2 Now I know that it is not to my vantage to deliberately neglect my responsibilities and to waste my time doing things that will make me resent my actions later.
8) Deliberate: carefully thought out in advance.
Novel Sentence: “Waiting for work to start, or turned in for the night, they went on talking to each other in their quiet, deliberate manner” (Solzhenitsyn 48).
Stand-alone: You deliberately picked a fight with me, just so you could make a scene.
In Writing: #1 I deliberately seek out means of distraction to guarantee self sabotage and kill any vantage in my work or life that begin to emerge.
#2 Now I know that it is not to my vantage to deliberately neglect my responsibilities and to waste my time doing things that will make me resent my actions later.
9) Barren: completely wanting or lacking.
Novel Sentence: “The steppe was barren and windswept, with a dry wind in the summer and a freezing one in winter“ (Solzhenitsyn 71).
Stand-alone: My world feels barren and pointless without the existence of chocolate chip ice-cream.
In Writing: #1 It’s when those days become weeks, and those weeks turn into what seems like one long miserably barren day.
#2 Routines are not always a boring thing, but necessary if you wish to grow in life and move forward, rather than stuck addled in a barren life of murderous misery.
10) Disdainful: showing arrogant superiority to those one views as unworthy.
Novel Sentence: “In fact, Solzhenitsyn had a rather disdainful attitude towards liberals” (Yevtushenko X).
Stand-alone: She ran her eyes over me with a disdainful expression.
11) Imperiously: in a manner showing arrogant superiority.
Novel Sentence: “At that very moment his blanket and jacket were imperiously jerked off him” (Solzhenitsyn 7).
Stand-alone: He was an imperious king, who ruled with a high hand.
12) Murder: unlawful premeditated killing of a human being.
Novel Sentence: "In denouncing Stalin as a murderer in 1956 at the Twentieth Party Congress, Khrushchev did not find the courage to repent for his own role in the repressions" (Yevtushenko ix).
Stand-alone: If I eat cereal for breakfast, does that mean I'm murdering the cereal like a cereal killer?
In Writing: True at first a break from everything feels great, and not having any responsibilities or murderous homework due anytime soon lifts this great weight off your shoulders.
#2 Routines are not always a boring thing, but necessary if you wish to grow in life and move forward, rather than stuck addled in a barren life of murderous misery.
13) Contradictory: unable to be both true at the same time.
Novel Sentence: "His hero was not a rebel against the camp regime, someone who considered that regime to be abnormal and contradictory to common sense." --> no in-text citation given
Stand-alone: Contradictory to popular opinion, I would actually love to go to prom.
In Writing: Then the idea of not having a routine by doing nothing contradicts itself.
14) Resentful: full of or marked by indignant ill will.
Novel Sentence: “Had Shukhov been punished for something he deserved he wouldn’t have felt so resentful” (Solzhenitsyn 8).
Stand-alone: She isn't a bad person at heart, but her actions make me resent her.
In Writing: #1 I begin to resent myself and everything because I know deep down that I am capable of greater things, but whenever I begin to stray from my designated path of known and comfort, then my mind goes into a severe state of panic and self sabotage.
#2 I had very little motivation except for the fear of being resented by people who wanted to spend time with me, if after i had already told them i had to study, they later found out that I didn’t use that time to do my work.
#3 Now I know that it is not to my vantage to deliberately neglect my responsibilities and to waste my time doing things that will make me resent my actions later.
15) Dexterous: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands.
Novel Sentence: “He dexterously pulled his feet out of the valenki, put the valenki in the corner…” (Solzhenitsyn 13).
Stand-alone: A pickpocketer must be quick and dexterous, in and out without turning any heads.
In Writing: So in addition to enjoying some romcoms that made me bawl like a baby, rationing the amount of junk food i allow myself to eat, and trying to improve my dexterity by attempted juggling, I have again experienced a lesson of responsibilities and balance.
16) Ostensibly: from appearances alone.
Novel Sentence: “And so we have One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - ostensibly one day in the life of a gulag prisoner” (Solzhenitsyn 174).
Stand-alone: She made a snide remark towards my shoes, ostensibly to make me feel self-conscious.
In Writing: No matter how many times I blink or widen my eyes like a panda on steroids I can’t keep them open, ostensibly in a state of near death
17) Addle: mix up or confuse.
Novel Sentence: “'Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling'"(Shakespeare Act 3, Scene 1).
Stand-alone: I'm afraid your attempts to woo me has left me quite addled.
In Writing: #1 Neglecting one’s responsibilities while you sit there addled as the world passes you by is not the way to live.
#2 Routines are not always a boring thing, but necessary if you wish to grow in life and move forward, rather than stuck addled in a barren life of murderous misery.
18) Nip: sever or remove by pinching.
Novel Sentence: ”The frost was trying to nip his ears…” (Solzhenitsyn 11).
Stand-alone: Whenever I tried to clean my turtles tank, he would always be frightened and try to nip me.
In Writing: While the thought of sleep hangs over my head, cold air nips at my naked feet which have begun to lose all source of circulation… This is the pain you experience when you don’t sleep.
19) Salvation: means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness.
Novel Sentence: ”Let your work warm you up, that was your only salvation” (Solzhenitsyn 6).
Stand-alone: On a freezing cold night, Starbucks is my only salvation.
In Writing: #1 My only possible salvation is coffee, which I had consumed at 5:30 in the morning
#2 Not having any commitments and procrastinating may at first seem like your salvation from all the stress of school and work, but as time passes it becomes a malicious addiction, that will sooner or later end any chance of personal growth.
20) Vantage: place or situation affording some benefit.
Novel Sentence: “'I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, which now to claim my vantage doth invite me'” (Hamlet: 5.2).
Stand-alone: When stalking my cat, I find hiding in a Hello Kitty onesie gives me the best vantage point.
In Writing: #1 I deliberately seek out means of distraction to guarantee self sabotage and kill any vantage in my work or life that begin to emerge.
#2 Now I know that it is not to my vantage to deliberately neglect my responsibilities and to waste my time doing things that will make me resent my actions later.