Daily Log

Friday, May 16

We watched the beginning of Winter Dreams, another documentary about Fitzgerald. Students took notes and turned them in at the end of the period.

Handout: Vocabulary list for Test on Tuesday:

Compiled from SAT practice questions:
extricate
inequity
iniquity
histrionic
axiom
tenuous
infallible
expunge
erroneous
archetype
pedant
autodidact
didactic
ostentatious
timorous
dauntless

From last chapters of Gatsby:
ingratiate – to bring (oneself, for example) into the favor or good graces of another, especially by
deliberate effort
menagerie – a collection of wild animals on exhibition
meretricious – attracting attention in a vulgar manner
septic – causing the presence of pathogenic organisms in the body
turgid – swollen or distended, as if from fluid
vestige – a visible trace, evidence or sign of something that no longer exists or appears
adventitious – not inherent, but added extrinsically
amorphous – lacking a definite organization or form; shapeless
commensurate – of the same size, extent, or duration
inviolate – not violated or profaned; intact
pander – to gratify or indulge a person, a desire, or a weakness
redolent – fragrant
truculent – aggressively defiant; pugnacious