Culmination

The Super Bowl is the culmination of the entire professional football season. All the rivalries, victories, and defeats lead up to this final contest.

Context Clues:
1. The entire season - a sum up?
2. Rivalries, victories, defeats - High point?

Culmination

noun
1.
the act or fact of culminating.
2.
that in which anything culminates; the culminating position or stage; highest point; acme.
3.
Astronomy. the position of a celestial body when it is on the meridian.

"The Fourth of July celebration has a culmination of impressive display of fireworks."

Callender/ To Do List

To Do List:
Study
Sleep
Finish Car

Forestall

The owners of the failing store hoped that the huge sale would bring in enough cash to forestall bankruptcy.

Context Clues:
1. Failing store is bad
2. Having a sale raises money
3. could mean stop

Forestall

verb (used with object)
1.
to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
2.
to act beforehand with or get ahead of; anticipate.
3.
to buy up (goods) in advance in order to increase the price when resold.
4.
to prevent sales at (a fair, market, etc.) by buying up or diverting goods.


"Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action."

Belligerent

Angie was suspended for her belligerent behavior during an argument with one of her teachers. She actually shook her fist at him and threatened to hit him.

Context Clues:
1. could mean violent
2. something that can kick you out of school for
3. could mean angry

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Belligerent

adjective
1.
warlike; given to waging war.
2.
of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose: a belligerent tone.
3.
waging war; engaged in war: a peace treaty between belligerent powers.
4.
pertaining to war or to those engaged in war: belligerent rights.


"Stephen got kicked out of the party last night. He got too drunk and started acting belligerent and got into a fight."

Reflection: Week 9

I am currently taking two classes, Reading and English. I overall enjoy my English class, we've written two papers; one about the media and the other about violence. I also won the “Best Title” contest for both of those essays, which was a huge accomplishment. Before this class I wasn't a good writer and dreaded doing essays, but with the guidance of my teacher who is a little weird I've come to love writing! Being successful is something I drive to be. However, it's not always easy. This famous quote stated in a Chinese proverb helps me “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” In other words success comes with failures, but in each fault you learn more about yourself and are one step closer to success. In order to become successful I have to push myself, and work hard. I have to realize that there's a difference between work and play, and there is a time for both. The key is finding a balance between the two. To find a balance, I put my work/school first because that is what most important at the moment. At the same time, not cut myself from friends and fun but simply not giving everything up for a good time. Another way I plan to continue on my road to success is never give up, there have been so many times when I have wanted to just stop doing work and get distracted, but I've learned to be self motivated enough to push myself above and beyond. Challenges are all over, some challenges I face are staying on task and procrastination, I always wait til the last minute and forget to do things. In this class I have learned that reading is important to be successful and that you need to have good study skills or you can't get anything done. I realized I need to read more for the final and improve my study skills, and hopefully that will help me in the next few weeks.

Calender / To Do List

To do List:
1) Car wash fundraiser
2) Car show
3) homework

Exacerbate

"Instead of soothing the baby, the sound of the music box seemed to only exacerbate his crying."

Context Clues:
1) Music usually soothes a baby so could mean opposite

verb (used with object),-bat·ed, -bat·ing.
1.
to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate.
2.
to embitter the feelings of (a person); irritate; exasperate.

Watching a pot of water boil does not exacerbate the water to boil faster.

Atrophy

"Since unused muscles atrophy, an arm or leg that remains in a cast for some time becomes thinner."

Context Clues:
1. An arm or leg in a cast is unused
2. Becoming thinner = becoming weaker?


noun
1.
Also, a·tro·phi·a  /əˈtroʊfiə/ Show Spelled[uh-troh-fee-uh] Show IPA. Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
2.
degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse: He argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought.

People's minds atrophy if they only watch television all the time.

Calender/To Do List

To Do List:
1) Wash Car for One/One Show
2) Watch some Drifting
3) Homework

Adroit

"Doris is adroit in any kind of discussion or debate. She's very skillful at getting others to see things her way."

Context Clues:
1) Discussion/debate could mean verbal
2) skillful in following sentence so could mean good at

Adroit
–adjective
1.
expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
2.
cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious: an adroit debater.


Tony is very adroit when it comes to cars. He can fix anything that is wrong with one.

-That One Kid