Week 2! --GOOGLE DOC
š Open your filled out google doc.
š Go to the very last row and the last box with your
sentence in it. Click your cursor at the end of your
sentence.
š Hit the TAB button on your computer to make new rows
for week 2
š Skip one row– WRITE WEEK TWO in bold in the word box
Affirm
Definition: (verb)
1. offer (someone) emotional support or encouragement.
2. State as a fact
Synonyms: support, endorse, declare
š “So I sat reading quietly, ignoring the murmur as Lucy was
gradually identified as the culprit. I wouldn’t affirm
anything.” Conversation Hearts
Culprit
Definition: (noun)
1. a person who is responsible for a crime
Synonyms: perpetrator, criminal, offender
“So I sat reading quietly, ignoring the murmur as
Lucy was gradually identified as the culprit.” From
Conversation Hearts
Inconceivable
Definition: (adjective)
1. Not able to be imagined or understood, unbelievable
Synonyms: unbelievable, unthinkable, incredible
“The idea of getting onto a coed bus without a pre-established
seating partner was inconceivable, so Lucy and I signed up
together, and promised to sit next to each other.” From
Conversation Hearts
Incriminating
Definition: (adjective)
1. Describing something that makes someone looks guilty
Synonyms: condemning, damning
š “Lucy had vanished, and I was now sitting alone with the
incriminating, odorous evidence.” Conversation Hearts
Mutual
Definition: (adjective)
1. A feeling or an action shared between two or more
people
Synonyms: reciprocal, common, shared
š “When I pictured my ideal encounter, it consisted of an
initial dreamy gaze, filled with a silent understanding of
mutual attraction, which led immediately to making out.”
From Conversation Hearts
Raggedy
Definition: (adjective)
1. Torn, worn or in a rough and wild state
Synonyms: worn, tattered, shabby
š "An ugly sweater like that, all raggedy and old, but Mrs.
Price believes her.” From Eleven
Rattling
Definition: (verb)
1. Making sounds while shaking or moving
Synonyms: clattering, knocking, shaking
š “Only today I wish I didn't have only eleven years rattling
inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box.” From Eleven
Tension
Definition:
1. element in a narrative that causes emotions such as
worry, anxiety, fear and stress on the part of both the reader
and the characters.
Synonyms: conflict, excitement
š The horror movie built up so much tension from the music,
shadows, and screams in the movie.
Theme
Definition: (noun)
1. The underlying meaning of a book, story, film, etc. A topic plus
author’s idea about it.
Synonyms: message, moral, lesson, big idea
š A theme in my book is that true friends make sacrifices for
each other.
Theoretical
Definition: (verb)
1. Something that is just a theory, speculation or guess.
Synonyms: speculative, hypothetical
š “Even the concept of mutual attraction was for the most
part theoretical.” From Conversation Hearts.
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