17th of October 2016

NUMBER WORD DEFINITION SENTENCE EXAMPLE 1 TRAMMELED To limit or restrict something unfairly The students have been trammelled a lot by the headmaster 2 MOROSE Very sad or unhappy He became morose and would not talk to anyone 3 ABSCISSA The horizontal coordinate of a point in a Cartesian plane Math quiz yesterday required us to find the abscissa of every graph equation 4 TIMBREL A small hand drum or tambourine The parade showcases a few men playing the timbrels 5 SYLVAN Having a lot of woods or trees A beautiful park surrounded by trees is an example of sylvan

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BOEING VS SPACEX

          Recently, the CEO of Boeing has declared the they are competing with SpaceX to arrive first in Mars. Everyone was shocked when he declared this statement in Chicago last week. Claiming that their reputation is better than Space X in aerospace , with 111 rocket launches in a row without accidents, they are planning to send their man on the Red Planet approximately in year 2034. However, SpaceX rebuts this "grand" reputation by stating that they will send an unmanned spaceship called Dragon 2 in the year 2018 and claimed that they will have their men on Mars nine years earlier than Boeing. 

          However, putting all rivalries aside, both of them have their own plans back here on Earth. For instance Boeing, is developing a hypersonic aircraft that can transport passengers from New York to California in just 12 minutes with an aircraft that travels up to mach 20. Meanwhile for SpaceX , they have been in the control of launching rockets and soon they have the idea of transporting passengers around the world in 45 minutes tops. If there is a floating platform in the Atlantic, a person can travel from California to Japan in just 15 minutes and New York from London in 10 minutes flat. We as the society, can't wait for the new technology that will surprises us in the future but we must be wise in choosing them for our own safety. 

The Shallows

          The title and poster of the movie clearly tells us what the movie is about. A girl went to a secret beach that her late mother always surfs and encounter a great white shark in the shallow water. She fought with the fight several times during she was stranded on a rock just 200 yards from the shore. Lastly, she managed to kill the shark by baiting him deep in the ocean. When the shark nearly bitten him, she swam aside and the shark bit the sharp metal structures on the bottom of the ocean.

          I dislike this movie because the story line is too slow and boring. I almost slept halfway through the movie and plus, there was inadequate excitement in the movie. Just surviving in the ocean and nothing more. I would give it a 2.5 out of 5

16th of October 2016

NUMBER WORD DEFINITION SENTENCE EXAMPLE 1 CAJOLE To persuade someone by saying nice thing so they do thing for you Cajoled her into doing my laundry 2 CAUCUS A meeting of members of political party to choose candidates for election The National Women’s Political Caucus 3 DENIGRATE To say very unfair things about someone Her story denigrates him as a person and as a teacher 4 VERACITY Truth We questioned the veracity of his statements 5 TOADY A person who praises people in order to get approval She is a real toady to the boss

15th of October 2016

NUMBER WORD DEFINITION SENTENCE EXAMPLE 1 DOMESTICATED To train an animal Horses have been domesticated to work on farms 2 SWINE A very bad person You really are a swine ! 3 PRAGMATIC Dealing problems in a specific situation in a reasonable and logical way A pragmatic man , not given to grand, visionary schemes 4 IMBUING To cause someone to be deeply affected by a feeling or to have a certain quality A feeling of optimism imbues her works 5 FEASIBLE Possible to do Looking for feasible way to create new jobs

14th of October 2016

NUMBER WORD DEFINITION SENTENCE EXAMPLE 1 APPROBATION Praise or approval That plan has the approbation of the school board 2 ESPOUSE To express support The new theory has been espoused by many physicists 3 PROBITY The quality of a person who is completely honest The defense attorney questioned the probity of the witness 4 OFFICIOUS To describe an annoying person who tries to tell other people what to do in a way that is not wanted An officious little man who was always telling everyone else how to do their jobs 5 BEGUILE To trick or deceive She was cunning enough to beguile her classmates into doing the work for her

13th of October 2016

NUMBER WORD DEFINITION SENTENCE EXAMPLE 1 COWRIES A shiny shell of a type of snail The Ibo tribes used cowries as their currency 2 TEMERITY The quality of being confident of danger or punishment He was punished for his temerity 3 UNMITIGATED Complete and total It looks like another one of your get-rich-quick schemes has ended in unmitigated failure 4 IMPASSABLE Impossible to cross over The roads were made impassable by the flood 5 KINDLING Dry twigs, pieces of paper etc that burn easily and are used to start a fire Ewell dropped the kindling after she saw the road accident