Well, I don't know about anyone else, but Annie is mighty excited about starting a new game. In case, I haven't said it before, a huge thank you to all who play! It really is a fun way for Annie to see her vocabulary words in use, which is obviously a lot better than just reading a definition.
In case we've got any new players, here's a brief recap of the rules:
1. Write as many sentences as you wish, but use no more than 10 of the vocabulary words. (That is, you can write ten sentences each using one word each. Or you can write one sentence using ten words. Or you can write six sentences using one word each and two sentences using two words each. Etc. You choose.)
2. You may use less than 10 words. If you just want to write one sentence, using just one word, that's perfectly fine!
3. Annie will choose her five favorite sentences. Each vocabulary word in these sentences earns a point.
4. A "secret" bonus word will yield everyone would happens to use that word an extra point.
5. Sentences must be posted in the comments by late Thursday afternoon (EST), as judging will take place Thursday evening.
6. Once again, the game will consist of eight rounds. Don't worry if you have to miss a week or two or even more...it is definitely still possible to win!
*Please feel free to ask, if anything is unclear.
*The prize for this game will be a $15.00 Amazon gift certificate.
*Again, just a hint...playing to Annie's passions can pay off! (She still loves wolves, ravens, and most any other animal. She still loves fantasy. Halloween themes are likely to be well-received. And she definitely seems to go for humor.)
And now for this week's words:
*disgruntled
*vituperate
*purloin
*canard
*subterfuge
*rudiments
*acclimate
*tangential
*semaphore
*sangfroid
*facinorous
*cerebrate
*refectory
*lauded
*egalitarian
*tenebrous
*apotheosis
*saturnine
*halitus
*deliquesce
*prognathous
*votary
*ambuscade
*indurate
Good luck everyone!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
a fresh start
Well, I did a really lousy job of keeping up-to-date on our homeschooling blog last quarter. Even missed reporting on the big event of Annie's starting her first class at the local community college.
I did post this picture over on my regular blog, but it really should be here. This is Annie headed out to her first day of Honors English 200 (Advanced Composition). She was so excited that morning, and a bit nervous, too. But no one can fault her for that.
The good new is that after five weeks of classes (a third of the way through), she's still loving it, and is excited about going to each and every class. And she's holding her own, too.
We completed lots of other things as well, but I'm just too overwhelmed to do an accounting. I am going to try to do a much better job of posting here, now that we're about to embark on our second quarter of the year.
(The first post for quarter two should be up later today when we'll get the words up for round 1 of the new Using that Vocabulary game.)
I did post this picture over on my regular blog, but it really should be here. This is Annie headed out to her first day of Honors English 200 (Advanced Composition). She was so excited that morning, and a bit nervous, too. But no one can fault her for that.
The good new is that after five weeks of classes (a third of the way through), she's still loving it, and is excited about going to each and every class. And she's holding her own, too.
We completed lots of other things as well, but I'm just too overwhelmed to do an accounting. I am going to try to do a much better job of posting here, now that we're about to embark on our second quarter of the year.
(The first post for quarter two should be up later today when we'll get the words up for round 1 of the new Using that Vocabulary game.)
Thursday, September 4, 2008
And the winner is...
First of all, here are this week's winning sentences:
I thought the EXECRABLE, RUGOSE, CHIMERA to be one of the most ELDRITCH beings I encountered in that INSULAR world, a creature so INELUCTABLE and ATAVISTIC that I suffered from URTICATION just thinking about it in its DORMANT phase let alone its RECRUDESCENT one. (Jean)
Make sure you buy the rugose chips that hold the dip so well in their grooves. (RaiderGirl3)
Two roads diverged in a wood and I had a choice: parsimony or affluence for the rest of my life which really wasn't much of a choice. (RaiderGirl3)
The constantly cranky chimera was glad of his sudden recrudescence, for now his execrable younger brother could not refer to him as a rugose old fart. (Carl)
When the execrable and affluent lothario returned home, he felt sure that his alibi would satisfy his empathic wife, but after he fell asleep and began to snore as she was talking to him, she let her gravamen be known by gluing him to the couch as he slept, loading the couch onto the truck, driving it to the sea, depositing it in the tidal pool of her insular retreat and awakenening her dormant octupi and jellyfish which she let enjoy their recrudescence by giving the sleeping idiot a good urtication. (Rich)
This week's bonus word: eldritch (Jean, Carl)
Well, both Jean and Rich went for the gusto this final week, and it paid off for both of them! The winner turned out to be Rich, and though I swear it was entirely above board, we want to avoid the appearance of impropriety and are going to give the second place finisher, Jean, a $10 Amazon gift certificate as well. And don't worry, Rich, we're giving you one, too!
Thank you all so much for playing! Not only do we really enjoy reading all your fabulous writing, it really is helpful to Annie as well! I was amazed at how close a game it was all along. I really, really, really hope you ALL will come back and play Game 3! Annie has a review test for the quarter coming up next week, and then has a couple weeks break before we begin her next vocabulary unit. But please come back the first week of October when the first round of Game 3 will be posted. Thanks again!
I thought the EXECRABLE, RUGOSE, CHIMERA to be one of the most ELDRITCH beings I encountered in that INSULAR world, a creature so INELUCTABLE and ATAVISTIC that I suffered from URTICATION just thinking about it in its DORMANT phase let alone its RECRUDESCENT one. (Jean)
Make sure you buy the rugose chips that hold the dip so well in their grooves. (RaiderGirl3)
Two roads diverged in a wood and I had a choice: parsimony or affluence for the rest of my life which really wasn't much of a choice. (RaiderGirl3)
The constantly cranky chimera was glad of his sudden recrudescence, for now his execrable younger brother could not refer to him as a rugose old fart. (Carl)
When the execrable and affluent lothario returned home, he felt sure that his alibi would satisfy his empathic wife, but after he fell asleep and began to snore as she was talking to him, she let her gravamen be known by gluing him to the couch as he slept, loading the couch onto the truck, driving it to the sea, depositing it in the tidal pool of her insular retreat and awakenening her dormant octupi and jellyfish which she let enjoy their recrudescence by giving the sleeping idiot a good urtication. (Rich)
This week's bonus word: eldritch (Jean, Carl)
Well, both Jean and Rich went for the gusto this final week, and it paid off for both of them! The winner turned out to be Rich, and though I swear it was entirely above board, we want to avoid the appearance of impropriety and are going to give the second place finisher, Jean, a $10 Amazon gift certificate as well. And don't worry, Rich, we're giving you one, too!
Thank you all so much for playing! Not only do we really enjoy reading all your fabulous writing, it really is helpful to Annie as well! I was amazed at how close a game it was all along. I really, really, really hope you ALL will come back and play Game 3! Annie has a review test for the quarter coming up next week, and then has a couple weeks break before we begin her next vocabulary unit. But please come back the first week of October when the first round of Game 3 will be posted. Thanks again!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
using that vocab-game 2, week 8
Last week of Game 2! Good luck everyone!
*gravamen
*empathy
*recrudescence
*affluence
*insular
*dormant
*parsimony
*chimera
*supernumerary
*eldritch
*execrable
*rugose
*atavistic
*ineluctable
*concatenation
*urtication
*lothario
*alibi
*gravamen
*empathy
*recrudescence
*affluence
*insular
*dormant
*parsimony
*chimera
*supernumerary
*eldritch
*execrable
*rugose
*atavistic
*ineluctable
*concatenation
*urtication
*lothario
*alibi
winning sentences (game 2, week 7)
Sorry for the delay in judging/posting this round's winners. Blame is fully mine (not Annie's) with equal parts busyness and disorganization involved.
This week's winning sentences:
Alyson stomped her feet and cried at her husband, "Your orange sweater, green pants and purple hat have completely ruined the aesthetic of this room and you will rue the day you tried to dress yourself!" (RaiderGirl3)
Conflate 'lunch' and 'breakfast' and you get my favorite meal: brunch. (RaiderGirl3)
Dude, only someone with hypoxia would think skateboarding down a mountain is a good idea. (RaiderGirl3)
The wolf SUCCORED his mate, licking her SUPPURATING wound to help it heal. (Jean)
I rue the day that I tried to bamboozle the mummy of King Rootentooten and had to suffer the incurable malediction of forever being a peripatetic moron with no sense of the aesthetic. (Rich)
Secret bonus word: malediction. (Carl, RaiderGirl3, Jean, Rich)
I can't believe how close this game is going into the final round! That $10 Amazon gift certificate could go to anyone. Anyway, this week's words should be posted this evening...and we'll try to get the judging done Thursday evening. Again, I apologize for being late this week.
This week's winning sentences:
Alyson stomped her feet and cried at her husband, "Your orange sweater, green pants and purple hat have completely ruined the aesthetic of this room and you will rue the day you tried to dress yourself!" (RaiderGirl3)
Conflate 'lunch' and 'breakfast' and you get my favorite meal: brunch. (RaiderGirl3)
Dude, only someone with hypoxia would think skateboarding down a mountain is a good idea. (RaiderGirl3)
The wolf SUCCORED his mate, licking her SUPPURATING wound to help it heal. (Jean)
I rue the day that I tried to bamboozle the mummy of King Rootentooten and had to suffer the incurable malediction of forever being a peripatetic moron with no sense of the aesthetic. (Rich)
Secret bonus word: malediction. (Carl, RaiderGirl3, Jean, Rich)
I can't believe how close this game is going into the final round! That $10 Amazon gift certificate could go to anyone. Anyway, this week's words should be posted this evening...and we'll try to get the judging done Thursday evening. Again, I apologize for being late this week.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
using that vocab-game 2, week 7
Just two more lists before we "crown" our winner. Shorter list of words to choose from this week. And a couple extra days to write. (Judging will take place next Thursday, August 28th.)
*bamboozle
*malediction
*peripatetic
*aesthetic
*rue
*succor
*embroil
*conundrum
*penury
*suppurate
*propitious
*conflate
*hypoxia
*interlocutor
Good luck, everyone!
*bamboozle
*malediction
*peripatetic
*aesthetic
*rue
*succor
*embroil
*conundrum
*penury
*suppurate
*propitious
*conflate
*hypoxia
*interlocutor
Good luck, everyone!
Saturday, August 16, 2008
point winners for week 6
Lots and lots of points to be awarded this week. The winning sentences:
Though you may accuse me of a puerile quibble, the sycophant Big Bad Wolf did indeed prevaricate when claiming that he was not a wolf, but a mere practitioner of the art of lycanthropy…this just before he gobbled up my grannie. (Carl)
Lord Chauncy was feeling a bit dauncy until the adventitious event of a craven raven’s fealty granted his daughter Harriet her manumit. (Carl)
{must be sung to the tune of Ebony and Ivory}
Apogee and perigee,
round and round go the planets,
in harmony,
Near and far pulls the sun,
for infinity. (RaiderGirl3)
"Do you dare to prevaricate on the stand?" the lawyer demanded of the witness, who helplessly howled at the moon as he tried to deny the lycanthropy charge against himself. (RaiderGirl3)
The teacher said my poem about a fish who had a wish that he was a girl named Trish was doggerel, but I knew otherwise. (Rich)
And this week's bonus word was lycanthropy. (Carl, Jean, RaiderGirl3, Rich)
Sheesh, Carl really wracked up the points this week!
As we're headed out of town again in the morning, the next list is going to be posted late. I hope to have them up by Tuesday evening (the 19th), but the judging won't be until the following Thursday (the 28th). Only two lists to go before we have a winner for this game!
Though you may accuse me of a puerile quibble, the sycophant Big Bad Wolf did indeed prevaricate when claiming that he was not a wolf, but a mere practitioner of the art of lycanthropy…this just before he gobbled up my grannie. (Carl)
Lord Chauncy was feeling a bit dauncy until the adventitious event of a craven raven’s fealty granted his daughter Harriet her manumit. (Carl)
{must be sung to the tune of Ebony and Ivory}
Apogee and perigee,
round and round go the planets,
in harmony,
Near and far pulls the sun,
for infinity. (RaiderGirl3)
"Do you dare to prevaricate on the stand?" the lawyer demanded of the witness, who helplessly howled at the moon as he tried to deny the lycanthropy charge against himself. (RaiderGirl3)
The teacher said my poem about a fish who had a wish that he was a girl named Trish was doggerel, but I knew otherwise. (Rich)
And this week's bonus word was lycanthropy. (Carl, Jean, RaiderGirl3, Rich)
Sheesh, Carl really wracked up the points this week!
As we're headed out of town again in the morning, the next list is going to be posted late. I hope to have them up by Tuesday evening (the 19th), but the judging won't be until the following Thursday (the 28th). Only two lists to go before we have a winner for this game!
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