Week 15 SAT Words

Sagacity (n.) - wisdom.  Like a sage, his sagacity lingers throughout the endless saga of textbooks.

Sanguine (adj.) - optimistic and cheerful.  I've always thought that sanguine means deadly, horrific, and evil, but it is not! That is one way to remember this word, but also, my favorite pasta is linguine!

Sans (adj.) - without.  You cannot go through a childhood without making a PowerPoint without using Comic Sans as the font. Sans also seems like a prefix or suffix that does not mean anything without the other part.

Schadenfreude (n.) - enjoyment of the misfortune of others.  I am not a racist, but stereotypically  this word is  German and Nazis have a reputation consisting schadenfreude".

Scrutinize (v.) - meticulous examination and careful observation.  When you try to see something up close, or carefully, you usually squint to make sure you get all the details. Scrutinize is like squinting.

Consider Face

Shrewd (adj.) - keen and clever regarding practical matters; intelligent at practical affairs.  A shrew is a rodent that is nocturnal. Although owls are nocturnal too, they dig tunnels of holes underground to avoid getting caught by prey. A shrew knows his way around.

Sovereignty (n.) - a nations power to govern itself.  Throughout history and social study classes is is important to study the Independence and sovereignty of one's nation, for other nations will try to claim the land.

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan

Spontaneous (adj.) - very enthusiastic and sudden movements.  People describe me as spontaneous, I know what it means. In addition, Sponge-bob is also very spontaneous, and he makes lots of awkward and "irregular" movements.

Spurious (adj.) - false, phony.  The San Antonio Spurs often claim to be the best, (but hey, who doesn't) but everyone knows Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls are the best.

Submissive (adj.) - weak, meek, ready to give in. submit means to turn something in, and submissive is the quality of turning something in.

Week 14 SAT Words

Rancor (n.) -deep, bitter feeling, ill-will; hostility.  In Scandinavian Mythology, and in a game that I play, Ragnarok is (second coming of Christ or Judgement Day)the final battle between good and evil. Ragnarok is one of the weapons in game, along with two others, Sanguine and Caladbolg. All three are weapons of mass destruction.

From Right: Ragnarok, Caladbolg, Sanguine

Recession (n.) - period of time where the economy falls; withdrawal or receding.  Currently the world is living in a time of depression, for it has been five years since the economic downfall. However, people continue to call it a "recession" because it gives a sign of hope for the economy to restore.

Reclusive (n) - a nonconformist that lives  against society, isolated or withdrawn.  Exclusive means to be VIP, rich, special, and famous, but REclusive means to be against exclusive.

Reconciliation (n) - that process of compromising after a quarrel.  Recon is another word for Reconnaissance, or resistance. Ciliation seems to me means something to do with stopping. How do you stop a resistance? Make compromises.

I did it and survived, I warn you, do not Google dress up

Redress (v) - to note, rephrase, or set right again.  To "re" address someone, or to literally dress someone up again.

Renovation (n) - process of restoring back into a better condition or state.  To renovate means to make something better.

Resilient (adj.) - quick to recover, springing back.  Resilient seems to resist, so once you do something to an object, it is resist, recoil, recover, or anything that is against you force applied onto the object.

Restrained (v) - to keep from, avoid.  Restrain me if you must, but I will not give in to write a definition to this word.

Rhetoric (n) - the techniques for using language effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.  Communications has taught me quite a number of ways to persuade people, it is extremely useful when comes to speeches and by learning about fallacies and how to speak properly, it is a addon to learn this word.

Romance (n) - a novel characterized by depicting characters with intent of love or idealized events.  When people go to Rome, or Paris, even large cities in Germany, basically Europe, which was controlled by the Roman Empire, they say how beautiful and romantic it is to be there.

Week 13 SAT Words

Pretentious (adj.) - characterized by showing importance; ostentatious.  If you are an average person, which I agree on average, most people are in the world, they seem to pretend to have the ability to do something or popularity. And they are very "pretend"tious.

Procrastinate (v.) - to delay unnecessarily.  The first time I heard this word, had a connotation of daydreaming, leading into a delay of time.

Profligate (adj.) - shamelessly wasteful; immoral way of wasting.  In the early 1800s, during the Napoleonic wars, American, whom was neutral traded with the British and the French. They did not have large ships with large crews, for Jefferson had destroyed them, but had Frigates, which were fast, cheap, and produced in large quantities. These ships were constantly seized and attacked by the British. Although these ships were fast, they did sink.

Frigate on the Left, British ship on the right.

Mouse-over me!

Provocative (adj.) - ability to provoke, or persuade, stir up, anger, or annoy.  Provocatice is pronounced provo[ka]tive, not provo[sa]tive ot provo[kay]tive, another fine example of the annoying English language.

Prudent (adj.) - wise, judicious, cautious, or careful.  When people drive, it is prudent of them to not be prone to dent their cars, thus, being careful when they drive.

Pugnacious (adj.) - like to fight, quarrelsome, fond of fighting.  Pugs are really ugly and I dislike them, whenever I see one, I just have the tendency to kill one. (Over exaggerated).

Quadrant (n.) - a quarter of a circle; a specific area or part of something.  In math classes, involving graphing or any sort of solving polynomial equations, the first vocabulary you learn is the parts of the coordinate plane.

Quantitative (adj.) - existing in large quantities, numbers. Teachers often recite "quality, not quantity" when writing an essay to prove that the quality of something in worth more than the multiple numbers of another, in an essays case, more evidence, less repetition.

Querulous (adj.) - complaining, and irritating.  While I was typing this word out, I kept saying and typing querluous, instead of querulous, I is extremely annoying to press the backspace, type the wrong letters again, and press backspace continuously.

Mr. Mosely, not Mr. Mosley.

Quixotic (adj.) - impractical, unpredictable; resembling romantic emotions.  Firstly the word is impractical. Secondly, I see the word exotic in the word, meaning different or unorthodox.

Post-100 posts post

I soon came to realize that after accomplishing hours of blogging, posting, and completing blog-related assignments, that I Steven Tien have reached over 100 posts on Steven's Awesome Blog. However, I did not post this 100 posts post on the blog, thus I have returned to post this post-100 posts post onto the blog now. This post-100 posts post is an indication of diligence and memories throughout Freshman English I, Communications, and the early Sophomore year studies of English II. Here's to the post-100 posts post and to 100 more!

Week 12 SAT Words

Novice (adj.) - beginner level. Playing videos games allow you to learn new words, such as novice, for playing the level makes the difference.

Obliged (v.) - required by law, command or constrain through necessary force. "Much Obliged" has a ring in the ear that is famililar somewhere that I do not remember. The only thing I can remember is the part where someone offers something good and another person replies: Much obliged.

Please let me through. Much Obliged.

Obtuse (adj.) - unsensitive or unobservant, unintelligent; slow at learning. An obtuse angle is an angle that is more than 90 degrees, therefore it takes more time for objects to turn more than 90 degrees and it is slow.

Omniscient (adj.) - aware, complete understanding or knowledge. Omni means all and scient I think is something to do with the mind and conscience. Therefore, it is all-knowing.

Onerous (adj.) - burdensome, troublesome, or oppressive. I hate the English language. onerous sounds exactly like honor-ous, and for something to be honor-ous, it usually takes someone to accomplish a very troublesome task.

Ostentatious (adj.) - showing, bragging, or impressing about one's wealth. For some reason, this word reminds me of ostriches, and the fact that they are very large birds. Therefore, large birds like to show off and mock the little one's for being small. But in the end, they cannot fly.

Parched (adj.) - extremely dry, thirsty. In the desert, National Geographic hosts always uses the word parched repetitively, especially Bear Grylls.

Penultimate (adj.) - next to the last, just before the final. There was a time where Papermate was the ultimate pen industry and everyone uses their pens, but now they are next to the last.

Poignant (adj.) - smells terrible; and affecting emotions. Angela taught me this word after I asked her what pungent means, and honestly, the word poignant sounds disgusting.

Precocious (adj.) - talented beyond one's age, mature. Pre indicated before, and cocious has something to do with age, perhaps conscience or brain maturity.