The book offers a few useful suggestions, but the rest of it is chaff.

equivocal “A great kingdom will fall,” the equivocal prophet said, but no one knew which kingdom he meant. equivocal “Elizabeth saw directly that her father had not the smallest intention of yielding; but his answers were at the same time so vague and equivocal, that her mother, though often disheartened, had never yet despaired of succeeding at last.” Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

chicanery With accounting chicanery, some executives falsely inflate corporate revenues to mislead investors. chicanery “Should not a magistrate be not merely the best administrator of the law, but the most crafty expounder of the chicanery of his profession, a steel probe to search hearts, a touchstone to try the gold which in each soul is mingled with more or less of alloy?” The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

debonair So debonair was Dennis that he made the most complex dance steps seem free and easy. debonair “The sweet Lenore hath ‘gone before,’ with Hope, that flew beside Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride - For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes - The life still there, upon her hair - the death upon her eyes.” “ Lenore ” by Edgar Allan Poe

macabre Gothic novels are well known for their macabre stories. macabre “The ears hung at different angles, negligently; and the macabre figure of that mute dweller on the earth steamed straight up from ribs and backbone in the muggy stillness of the air.” The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

genealogy The snooty patrician thought her royal genealogy granted her special privileges. genealogy “An authentic genealogy traced up so high could not but be extremely curious; and with good reason might the Emperors of Abyssinia boast themselves the most illustrious and ancient family in the world.” A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo

feisty The movie Rudy tells the true story of a small but feisty young man who, against all odds, makes the elite football team at Notre Dame. feisty “In her typically feisty manner, Ms. Dorries subsequently stood up to Gordon Brown in a packed Commons chamber and challenged him to apologize in person for Mr. McBride's s.” “Blogger’s Bleating Fails to Impress Leader” from The Journal (Newcastle, England.)

impervious Elise was so confident that she was impervious to even the coldest insults. impervious “I apologized; but he continued scornfully, ‘Since you are impervious to argument, you shall hear with your ears how by means of my two voices I reveal my shape to my wives, who are at this moment six thousand miles seventy yards two feet eight inches away, the one to the North, the other to the South.’” Flatland by Edwin Abbott

depletes When a professional hockey player depletes his supply of electrolytes, he often consumes an energy drink to replenish them. depletes “ ‘The conclusion is that if you can create a drug that preserves the B10 subset and depletes other B cells at the right time, that would be the best therapy,’ Tedder said.” Duke Researchers: “B Cells Can Fight Nerve Disease” from ConsumerAffairs.com

gull “These days, with all the advances in sales techniques, it is difficult to figure out who is telling the truth, and who is trying to gull you.” gull ``‘Ay,’ said the Knight, ‘`to gnaw the bowels of our nobles with usury, and to gull women and boys with gauds and toys—I warrant thee store of shekels in thy Jewish scrap.’” Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

farcical When the leading man slipped on a banana peel, the movie turned farcical. farcical “The world in general looks upon the college duels as very farcical affairs: true, but considering that the college duel is fought by boys; that the swords are real swords; and that the head and face are exposed, it seems to me that it is a farce which had quite a grave side to it.” A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

nadir Some people cannot appreciate the top until after they have hit the nadir. nadir “Here and there nebulous masses like large flakes of starry snow; and from the zenith to the nadir, an immense ring formed by an impalpable dust of stars, the ‘Milky Way,’ in the midst of which the sun ranks only as a star of the fourth magnitude.” Round the Moon by Jules Verne

penchant Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, had a penchant for what was then called the “talking cure.” penchant “He ran across a book in the library on the care of the body, and promptly developed a penchant for a cold-water bath every morning, much to the amazement of Jim, and to the bewilderment of Mr. Higginbotham, who was not in sympathy with such high-fangled notions and who seriously debated whether or not he should charge Martin extra for the water.” Martin Eden by Jack London

adjunct The doctor made aspirin the adjunct treatment to be used with the penicillin he prescribed for the patient. adjunct “But you speak of instruction, and of a profession; are you an adjunct to the provincial corps, as a master of the noble science of defense and offense; or, perhaps, you are one who draws lines and angles, under the pretense of expounding the mathematics?” The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

F ilial 14. F ilial. adj. of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter filial John’s mother tested his filial loyalty by crashing his prized car. filial “There was in it, no doubt, filial devotion, domestic attachment; there was also the fascination of one spirit by another spirit.” Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

mitigate Nothing Peter could do would mitigate the harsh punishment. mitigate “They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death.” The Essays by Sir Francis Bacon

Reading Fix-up strategies: 1.Make a connection between the text and: Your life. Your knowledge of the world. Another text. 2.Make a prediction. 3.Stop and think about what you have already read. 4.Ask yourself a question and try to answer it. 5.Reflect in writing on what you have read. 6.Visualize. 7.Use print conventions. 8.Retell what you've read. Reread. Notice patterns in text structure. 9.Adjust your reading rate: slow down or speed up. From: Cris Tovani. I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers (Kindle Locations ). Kindle Edition.

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