NUMBER	WORD	DEFINITION	SENTENCE EXAMPLE
1	STARK	Very obvious	The stark reality of death
2	DECIPHER	To find the meaning of something that is difficult	I could not decipher his sloppy handwriting
3	CONUNDRUM	A difficult or confusing problem	The conundrum of how ancient people can build massive infrastructures
4	EXILE	A person who has been forced to live in a foreign country	They hoped that his exile is temporary
5	OPPRESSIVE	Very cruel or unfair	The country is ruled by an oppressive regime

31st of May 2016

NUMBER	WORD	DEFINITION	SENTENCE EXAMPLE
1	CONCOMITANTLY	Happening at the same time	The drug’s risk increase with the concomitant use of alcohol
2	DISSERVICE	Something that harms someone or something	Her comments were a disservice to those volunteers
3	INQUISITIVE	Tending to ask questions	An inquisitive woman who tends to everybody’s business but her own
4	CONGLOMERATES	Made up of parts from various sources	Over the years the town’s discarded junk conglomerated at the bottom of the river
5	PERSE	Of a dark grayish blue resembling indigo	The perse colour of her coat was magnificent

30th of May 2016

          The new Jurassic World, owned by the corporation of Simon Masrani operates in Isla Nublar, Central America, with dinosaurs genetically created by the InGen Company. The workaholic and uptight manager Claire Dearing receives her nephews Gray and Zach in the park, but she is too busy to give attention to them and asks her assistant to escort the boys. Meanwhile the dedicated Owen Grady is training four velociraptors and the InGen security guard Vic Hoskins believes that the animal can be trained for military use. When Owen and two other employees go to an isolated paddock to evaluate the new attraction of the park, the hybrid dinosaur Indominus Rex, the animal lures them, kills the two men and flees from the spot. Owen escapes and asks Masrani to kill the Indominus, but he believes his security team can contain and capture the animal that cost lots of money. However the team is destroyed by the Indominus and Claire orders the evacuation of the tourists from the island. But the dangerous pterosaurs escape from the aviary and the place goes havoc. Meanwhile Gray and Zach are riding a gyro-sphere in the restricted area and Claire and Owen seek them out. With the chaos in the island, Vic assumes the command and decides to use the four velociraptors to locate and destroy the Indominus. However , his plan failed as Indominus Rex is part of raptor and can communicate with the raptors to give a new command to kill them. 

          Because of the strong bond and effective communication between Owen and his raptors , he was able to manipulate the new command and give a new one to attack the Indominus. After one by one raptor was defeated , Claire had no options but to release the greatest and fiercest dino predator , the T-Rex ( which was seen on the old movies). T Rex and Indominus Rex had a one on one battle and with the assistance of the raptor , Indominus was finally eaten by the huge sea dinosaur  , mamosaurus.


          Honestly , by watching the material it did not change me as a person. Well maybe a slight because of the bravery shown by Owen and his love for his raptors. But other than that , it was only for entertainment and thrils. The movie also gave vision to me of how this world would be when pre-historic animals collide with the modern technology, gene modification. Surely anyone with knowledge and money would be able to create their own monster. 

NUMBER	WORD	DEFINITION	SENTENCE EXAMPLE
1	VERISIMILITUDE	The quality of seeming real	The novel’s degree of verisimilitude is compromised by characters who speak in 21st century English
2	AGOG	Full of interest or excitement	The news has chemists agog
3	REVELERS	A person who is celebrating with other people in usually a wild and noisy way	The streets were crowded with revellers on New Year’s Eve
4	SOMBER	Very sad and serious	Her death put us in a somber mood
5	SPECULATIVE	To think about something and make guesses about it	She could only speculate about her friend’s motives

29th of May 2016

Chapter 4-Chapter 8

          For the first three chapters , I rarely understood the story line . Well maybe it's because that it is only the beginning of the novel. However , when I read until the 8th chapter, this novel kinda get into my interest. Previously , Emerald Deegan was still alive , but now , she was found dead in her bedroom with splatters of blood covering every inch of the mattress sheet. The authorities and news conference believed that she committed a suicide by slitting her own throat with a paring knife. When Simone first walked into the crime scene , she was so noxious and had the urge to puke when she saw the bloody red bed and Emerald's pale hand sticking out from the plastic that was covering her body. Honestly , this sent me a chill. 

          The author made an approach to the reader by using persuasive style of writing which stated that Emerald was first dead because of suicide. However , her personal assistant , Holly revealed that she was murdered and the murderer was stalking her now. However , the police did not listen to her which resulted a great amount of stress for her. Other than that , the author used very descriptive details of the incidence and I quote "So much blood , around one small bed. She shot herself? Or did someone else..... She could not reconcile that with this blood, this smell, that unadorned limb like a stage prop on the stained satin sheet". 

          

NUMBER	WORD	DEFINITION	SENTENCE EXAMPLE
1	DEFERS	To postpone	John likes to defer his assignment at the eleventh hour
2	VERACITY	Truth or accuracy	We questioned the veracity of his statements
3	RUEFULLY	Feeling regret of something done	He wish that he can turn back time to show his ruefulness because of his inappropriate act
4	STRATAGEM	A trick for deceiving an enemy	Tried various stratagems to get the cat into the carrier but it is wiser
5	DISPOSITION	A tendency to act or think in a particular way	Her disposition was to always think negatively

27th of May 2016

NUMBER	WORD	DEFINITION	SENTENCE EXAMPLE
1	INCARCERATE	To put someone in prison	The state incarcerated over 1900 people last year
2	INSIGNIA	A badge that shows you are a member of a group	Their jackets have the school’s insignia on the front
3	PIVOTAL	Very important	She is at a pivotal point in her carrier
4	CATHARSIS	The act of releasing a strong emotion	Painting is a catharsis for me
5	EXPOSITION	The act of explaining something	The subject requires some exposition

26th of May 2016

NUMBER	WORD	DEFINITION	SENTENCE EXAMPLE
1	FLUSTERED	Not calm	The interruption flustered the speaker
2	PEDANT	Person who insist on strict adherence to rules	Jones always annoys Shane because of his pedant behaviour about everything
3	SPARSE	Present in small amounts	Open land is sparse around here
4	SPECIOUS	False	He justified his actions with specious reasoning
5	VENIAL	Unimportant	Taking the restaurant’s menu as a souvenir seems like a venial ofense

25th of May 2016