1. Good Morning/Afternoon! Please get ready to learn new vocabulary words

2. Something Different! Today for the first half of the class: Look up the PPT for “Vocabulary Set 3” on my website. 1. Enter these words into your notebook. 2. Enter these vocabulary words into Quizlet. Play games on Quizlet to help you learn these words! OR Create actual flash cards of these words. I have some paper I can give you if you do not have your own.

3. Vocabulary Set 3 Write down the words, part of speech and definitions. The quiz on Friday will have ALL of these words, and SOME of the words from the previous weeks & Logical Fallacies!

4. When the going get’s tough… 1. Convoluted (adj) Def: Intricate; complex. Sample: The directions were so convoluted that we drove all around the city and got lost. 2. Cryptic (adj) Def. difficult to comprehend The writing on the walls of the crypt was cryptic; none of the scientists understood it.

5. When the going gets tough… 3. futile (adj.) Def. having no useful purpose; pointless Sample: “It is futile to try to explain the difference between right and wrong to your pet.” 4. impede (verb) Def. to slow the progress of Sample “The retreating army constructed barbed-wire fences and destroyed bridges to impede the advance of the enemy.”

6. When the going gets tough… 5. obscure (adj. or verb) Def. Relatively unknown (adj) Def. to conceal or make indistinct (v.) Sample: “Scott constantly makes references to obscure cult films, and no one ever gets his jokes.” Sample: “The man in front of me was so tall that his head obscured my view of the movie.”

7. When the going gets tough… 6. quandary (abstract noun) Def. a state of uncertainty or perplexity Sample: “Ann was in a quandary because she had no soap with which to do her laundry.”

8. I’m a loser, Baby… 1. indolent (adj.) Def. lazy Sample: “Mr. Lan said his students were indolent because they had not done their homework.” 2. insipid (adj.) Def. uninteresting; unchallenging Sample: “That insipid movie was so boring and predictable.”

9. I’m a Loser, Baby… 3. lament (verb) Def. express grief for; mourn Sample: After Beowulf was killed by the dragon, the Geats wept and lamented his fate. 4. listless (adj.) Def. lacking energy Sample: Because he is accustomed to an active lifestyle, Mark feels listless when he has nothing to do.

10. I’m a Loser, Baby 5. melancholy (abstract noun) Def. sadness; depression Sample: Francis fell into a state of melancholy when her childhood pet died of old age. 6. torpor (abstract noun) Def. laziness; inactivity; dullness Sample: The hot and humid day filled everyone with an activity-halting torpor.

11. Quiz on Friday Will include all of these words. Will include SOME of the previous words. Will include all Rhetorical Fallacies.