philistine-A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them. I found this word very interesting because I thought a "philistine" was only an ethnicity.
abeyance - noun temporary cessation or suspension ambivalent - adj. uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow beleaguer - verb surround so as to force to give up; annoy persistently cataclysm - noun an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; a sudden violent change in the earth's surface debauch - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity; verb corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality eclat - noun brilliant or conspicuous success or effect; ceremonial elegance and splendor; enthusiastic approval fastidious - adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures gambol - noun gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; verb play boisterously imbue - verb suffuse with color; fill, soak, or imbue totally; spread or diffuse through inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed lampoon - noun a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way; verb ridicule with satire malleable - adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; easily influenced nemesis - noun (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance; something causes misery or death opt - verb select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative philistine - adj. of or relating to ancient Philistia or the culture of the Philistines; smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values; noun a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC; a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits picaresque - adj. involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction queasy - adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit; causing or able to cause nausea refractory - adj. temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; not responding to treatment; stubbornly resistant to authority or control; noun lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace savoir-faire - noun social skill
philistine-A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them.
ReplyDeleteI found this word very interesting because I thought a "philistine" was only an ethnicity.
Rebecca Patterson period 6
Why have there been so many French words?
ReplyDeleteabeyance - noun temporary cessation or suspension
ReplyDeleteambivalent - adj. uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
beleaguer - verb surround so as to force to give up; annoy persistently
cataclysm - noun an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
debauch - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity; verb corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
eclat - noun brilliant or conspicuous success or effect; ceremonial elegance and splendor; enthusiastic approval
fastidious - adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
gambol - noun gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; verb play boisterously
imbue - verb suffuse with color; fill, soak, or imbue totally; spread or diffuse through
inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
lampoon - noun a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way; verb ridicule with satire
malleable - adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; easily influenced
nemesis - noun (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance; something causes misery or death
opt - verb select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative
philistine - adj. of or relating to ancient Philistia or the culture of the Philistines; smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values; noun a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC; a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
picaresque - adj. involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction
queasy - adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit; causing or able to cause nausea
refractory - adj. temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; not responding to treatment; stubbornly resistant to authority or control; noun lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
savoir-faire - noun social skill
*I'm missing carte blanche
^^do those seem correct?
ReplyDeleteI love when we have French vocab words ^^ I know I won't forget savoir-faire this week, because when I saw it on the list, I just started singing -.-'
ReplyDeleteKatie you are too kind
ReplyDeleteDr. Preston, Debauch is a verb and noun, which would you like us to learn? Or will you answer, both?
ReplyDelete-Trevor
Thank you Katie for the vocabulary definitions!
ReplyDeleteKayla McCallie
Period 2
I will Kayla's thanks with my own. Thank you Katie!
ReplyDeleteJon Hoffman
Period 2