1. Week #15 Anderson

2. pious Sentence: (a.) Before going to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel was an extremely pious young man who spent many hours each day exploring religious texts. (b.) He was a pious man who went to church every Sunday. (c.) Joan was proud of her piety and always made it a point to praise God in front of others. Definition: (1.) devoutly religious; (2.) spiritual, devout, devoted, faithful, (3.) showing religious reverence Part of speech: adjective Other forms: piousness (noun) piously (adverb) piety (noun) Antonyms: agnostic, unholy, irreverent

3. compunction Sentence: (a.) Dr. Jekyll fails to feel any compunction for the crimes he commits as Mr. Hyde. (b.) Even though he felt some compunction for lying, he continued telling lies until he could no longer remember to whom he had told what. Definition: (1.) feelings of shame and regret about doing something wrong; (2.) anxiety or uneasiness about doing something Part of speech: noun Other forms: compunctious (adjective) Antonyms: disregard, indifference, unconcern

4. disparate Sentence: (a.) Robert Louis Stevenson helps readers to understand the idea of man’s duality in the disparate physical characteristics of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; one is tall, good-looking, and refined; the other, short, deformed, and ugly. (b.) With one group wanting a casino theme and the other a tropical island theme, the disparate ideas for prom themes made it difficult for the class president to decide which one to go with. Definition: (1.) describes people or things so completely unlike one another that they cannot be compared; (2.) fundamentally so different that two things are beyond comparison Part of speech: adjective Other forms: disparately (adverb) disparateness (noun) disparity (noun, very common) Antonyms: comparable, similar, analogous

5. subjugate Sentence: (a.) The people of Sighet were slowly subjugated by the German army. (b.) Once the rebel forces subjugated the country’s top political figures, they were able to control the general population. (c.) Dr. Jekyll is unable to subjugate his darker side, Mr. Hyde, and lives in fear of when he will transform. (d.) The RUF used fear to subjugate the people of the villages they raided. Definition: (1.) to bring somebody, especially a people or nation, under the control of another, e.g. by military conquest; (2.) to conquer or take control by force; (3.) to conquer or take control by force; (4.) overpower, conquer, defeat, overcome, master, overthrow, subdue, enslave Part of speech: verb Other forms: (-s, -ed, -ing) subjugation (noun) Antonyms: lose, surrender

6. tenet Sentence: (a.) For his thesis, the student chose to compare the main tenets of the world’s most popular religions. (b.) The primary tenet of most religions is God exists. Definition: (1.) an established fundamental belief, especially one related to religion or politics; (2.) any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, especially, one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement; (3.) rule, belief, principle, custom, law. Part of speech: noun Other forms: tenets (plural) Antonyms: none

7. Literary Term: Metaphor Definition: Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things. A metaphor suggests that one thing is another thing, or is equal to another thing. Examples: “All the world is a stage.” – Shakespeare "The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner." (Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa") Language is a road map. Bad Examples The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon. Why is it important? Metaphors create vivid descriptions with few words, as the subject of the comparison takes on the qualities of the thing with which it is compared.

8. Grammar Rule: Commas w/ non-essential clauses (which) Comma Rule #7: Use a comma to separate non-essential clauses from the rest of the sentence. (A non-essential clause can be left out of the sentence without changing the meaning.) Non-essential vs. Essential clauses– “which” vs. “that” Non-essential: The car, which was parked on the street, received a ticket last night because of the snow-removal ordinance. Essential: The car that was parked on the street received a ticket last night because of the snow-removal ordinance. Essential = that = no commas Non-essential = which = commas

9. Homework Vocabulary Words - One sentence for each vocabulary word. 2 compound sentences with long coordinating conjunction 1 compound sentence with a short coordinating conjunction 2 complex sentences Literary Term – Metaphor One sentence with an example of a metaphor Grammar Rule – non-essential vs. essential clauses One sentence with a non-essential clause, one with an essential clause One illustration

10. tenet A tenet is a principle or belief honored by a person or, more often, a group of people. "Seek pleasure and avoid pain" is a basic tenet of Hedonism. "God exists" is a tenet of most major religions. Tenet is pronounced "ten’it." The word evolved from the Latin tenere "to hold." The noun tenet is an opinion or doctrine one holds. It usually refers to a philosophy or a religion, but it doesn't have to — for instance, Eastern medicine has different tenets from Western medicine. One of the central tenets of succeeding in the workplace is that a good offense is the best defense. www.vocabulary.com

11. compunction When you feel compunction you feel very, very sorry, usually for something you did to hurt someone or mess something up. When you feel no compunction, you're not at all sorry. The noun compunction comes from the Latin verb compungere, meaning “prick sharply.” When you feel compunction, you feel a sharp prick of your conscience. The word compunction is often used in the negative in phrases like “without compunction” or "no compunction." You might say that the burglar acted without compunction when he stole your baseball card collection. www.vocabulary.com

12. subjugate If you say you won't be kept down by the man, you are saying that you won't let the man subjugate you. To subjugate is to repress someone, or to make them subservient to you. In subjugate you see the word subject. In this word, it's not talking about the subject of a sentence, rather it's talking about the kind of subjects that Kings have serving them. Subjugate is to reduce someone's status to that of a subject. It's a royal demotion, often brought by force or intimidation. www.vocabulary.com

13. pious If someone is deeply religious and visibly follows all the moral and ethical codes of his religion, he is pious. Don't become a priest if you're not prepared to live a pious life. Pious comes from the Latin pius, which means dutiful. It doesn't always have to be used to talk about organized religion. If someone believes deeply in something, and lets everyone see it through their behavior, then they are pious, whether they're pious Christians or pious environmentalists. It differs from its synonym devout, which implies deep religious sentiment, whereas pious emphasizes the public display of feeling. www.vocabulary.com

14. disparate The trunk of some people's cars may contain items as disparate as old clothes, rotting food, and possibly a missing relative. Disparate things are very different from each other. Near synonyms are unequal and dissimilar. The adjective disparate is from Latin disparātus, from disparāre "to separate, divide," from the prefix dis- "apart" plus parāre "to prepare." Disparate in the sense of "very different" probably developed by association with the Latin adjective dispar "unequal, different.” www.vocabulary.com