Vocab #8

1. Abase: to reduce or lower in rank, office etc.

2. Abdicate: to give up or renounce.

3. Abomination: anything greatly disliked or detested.

4. Brusque: rude, blunt, rough.

5. Saboteur: a person that practices sabotage.

6. Debauchery: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

7. Proliferate: to grow or produce.

8. Anachronism: someone or something that belongs in an earlier time period.

9. Nomenclature: names or terms used in a particular set or system.

10. Expurgate: to make appropriate by removing words/passages that are. offensive; to censor.

11. Bellicose: aggressive, hostile, ready to fight.

12. Gauche: lacking social grace;  awkward.

13. Rapacious: satisfaction of greed.

14. Paradox: a proposition that seems contradictory, but may be true.

15. Conundrum: a riddle, puzzle.

16. Anomaly: someone or something abnormal. 

17. Ephemeral: short-lived, lasting a brief moment.

18. Rancorous: someone who is full of resentment/ hate.

19. Churlish: rude, vulgar behavior.

20. Precipitous: very steep, dangerously high.

IF I JUST HAD MORE TIME

     If I had more time I would have definitely would have studied a lot more because I pretty much crammed this midterm. Even though I felt like I did well in defining as many words as I did in the time I crammed. I was kind of bummed that I was spending all the time defining the words that I didn't get to start on the essay using the vocab. That was one of my only disappointments in the midterm.

Tale Of A Canterbury Tale

   So me and my group decided to choose The Monk's Tale. In his tale he listed a series of tragedies as a warning to the other characters. In his first tragedy story he brings up Lucifer and how he fell from heaven all the way down to hell. Then he brings up Adam who apparently was the one man not born of original sin. He list many other characters and their tragedies such as Sampson, Hercules, Nabugodonosor (I have no idea how to pronounce that), Balthasar, and many other ones that I don't want to write down since there is still quite a handful of them, but you get the point. 
   What I noticed as he was telling all of these biblical characters tragedies he wasn't really using any of them to make them stand out from the rest or be a main character to his story(stories). 

    A lot of this information I got was in this website. 
Also my fellow classmates Mia Levy and Javiar Solis have some nice information about The Monk's Tale so go check it out!