Pop Quiz

1. Define and give an example Normalizing: An act done by a person to feel in the presence of the past, to make a someone feel comfortable by thinking about things done before. I normalize in Taiwan when I eat Kellogs cereal for breakfast, becauseI used to eat cereal in Canada, making me feel comfortable although I am in Taiwan.
2. What are three places something can go wrong in communication: In the encode, the sender may not be able to form clear sentence, through language or sound making barriers. Noise also makes communication difficult for reciever to hear. Lastly, the decoding may be be the original thought that the sender sent, while noise potentially have the ability to reduce being able to hear.
3. Explain what the Iceberg Principle is: The Iceberg Principle is a form of literature that gives few information about the characters, plot, or background of the story. The idea of the principle is to allow the reader to infer about the story to understand and to guess what the situation of the story is with as little information given. It also startles the reader, for there may be several different interpretations to the story because nothing is truely clear.
4. Provide an explanation and example of Suspension of Disblief: In stories or movies, there are times where a situations that deals with suspense is portrayed to be real, but in reality, it would be physically impossible to have completed such actions without a flaw or such. Suspension of Disbelief shows the reader that only in the story, can this certain task be done, but in reality it cannot. In most Sci-Fi movies, there will be plenty of characteristics that show Suspension of Disbelief, where futuristic robots look, act, and react like humans. However, these robot will not be walking around in a long time, we do not have the technology to form such droids, but for the movies' sake and the beauty of Capitalism, it is portrayed.
5. What was the metamorphosis in the The Metamorphosis, why?: The metamorphosis was the changes the the family needed to make in order to better suit the functions of the family or lifestyles for they had a giant cockroach living with them. The Samsas were poor, they needed money, and because Gregor no longer provided them with the funds the faily needed, they had to get jobs and work again. Due to the fact that the Samsas son was a giant cockroach, they needed to normalize and get used to that fact. However, it was impossible to live with a giant cockroach, thus they needed to make decisions to benefit the entire family. Their final decision was to kick Gregor out, after a long hesitant days and longsuffering. Before all this, the Samsa were quite happy and money was sufficient, but now they changed all the way to being poor, needed jobs, and most importantly, giving up on their own son.

 

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Week 5 SAT Words

Diatribe (n.) - A bitter or hurtful verbal insult.
There is a kind of sauce that is called Tribe, which tastes spicy, but Dia means through and it has the connotation that it tastes worst that spice, thus, bitter.

Digression (v.) - Act of wandering off, or getting unrelated to topic.
It somehow to me sounds like discretion, where in the beginning few TV shows like Futurama, it says viewer discretion is advised, meaning, don't think the wrong way.

Diligent (adj.) - Hard-working.

For many years I have studied English and I worked hard to be at this level, and diligent is a vocab word for my level.

Diligent me

Guess who's underrated

Discredit (v.) - Underrate, dishonor, disbelief.
To Dis credit someone, is to make them un-credited.

Disdain (v.) - To scorn something, criticize, or condescend.
The Jolly Sailor Bold song of the pirates has the verse "I disdain all glittering gold." The song's meaning is that nothing can compare to the man whom she loves, not even gold.

Disenfranchise (v.) - To take away someone's right, especially voting rights.
Merchandise refunds grants a person to return a product, but the 'dis' makes merchandise refunds unavailable.

Divergent (adj.) - To cause separation, or move apart.
To divert something is to change its course of action, lead it into another direction.

Eclectic (adj.) - to select from various sources.
Electric, elective, all sound similar to eclectic, and electronically you elect the sources you want for an essay.

Elucidate (v.) - to make clear, straight forward.
Illuminate the light and show a clear path to the right choices and directions.

Empathy (n.) - showing feeling and react with feeling due to previous emotion.
Empathy, sympathy,same thing.

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Week 4 SAT Words

Compromise (v.) - to come up to an agreement.
Co means together and promise an agreement, thus to come to an agreement.

Condescending (adj.) - adulating someone making others feel less superior.
A con artist is a clever and sly person, but people do not realize their intelligence and only view them as criminals.

Conditional (adj.) - involving, only occurring when something else happens.
When I think of this word, I think of 'but' where you promise to do something 'only if' something is repaid.

Conformist (n.) - a person living without following rules or expectations.
Bohemian Rhapsody was about a poor boy whom needs no sympathy, cause he's easy come easy go, little high little low.

Convergence (n.) - the act of joining things together.
Converge means to join things together, to make them merge or turn in to become something.

Correlation (n.) -  relevance, relation, correspondence.
Co means together, relation means the relevance between two things, thus relating to each other.

Crescendo (n.) - in music, a steady paced increase in volume.
In several episodes of the Little Einsteins, Leo performs the super fast dance to make Rocket go fast. Crescendo was the fastest speed Rocket could go.

It all starts from Allegro, I still can't believe that children are learning SAT words

Deleterious (adj.) - harmful, injurious.
I see Delete, do not delete without backing up.

Deluge (n.) - a large flood or tsunami.
I don't know why but something in Deluge, probably the 'luge' reminds me of a word that correlates to water, perhaps lagoon?

Demagogue (n.) - political speaker gaining power through speech.
Democracy allows the freedom of speech, which is what demagogues take as an advantage to win votes.

Week 3 SAT Words

Blasphemy (n.) - anything that shows or reveals God.
In movies, sometimes people yell out, "Blasphemy!" To show how ridiculous something is and to say OMG in other words.

Bohemian (adj.) - a person, whom lives in an unconventional life.
Bohemian Rhapsody was about a little boy who killed a maaaaaaaan, put a gun against his head and pulled the trigger now he's dead.

Camaraderie (n.) - friendliness and trustworthiness.
Camaro Concept is a car manufactured from Chevrolet, or the common friendly car dealership.

Canard (n.) - a fallacy that leads to misinterpretation.
Change Ca to 'ret' and you get someone who doesn't understand how to express themselves and will cause other people to think twice about them.

Censure (n.) - severe criticism.
You are able to sense and ensure that a storm is coming, and when it comes, it brings destruction.

Chronic (adj.) - something consistently occurring repetitively.
Again, Chron is Greek for Time and 'ic' sounds like hiccups, which are repetitive.

Circuitous (adj.) - loop, U turn, indirect; detour.
Circuit is a circlular race track where cars continue to loop around the track.

Do you know what track this is? Don't cheat by checking the HTML

Clairvoyant (adj.) - fortune teller, see the future.
"Clear Voyage," said the man whom provides watch over the ship in the crow's nest and helps guide the ship.

Collaborate (v.) - to gather ideas together and work together.
Collaborate is just another one of those words that I know, so just work with it.

Compassion (n.) - sympathy for one that is in troubled.
You feel passion for someone especially one whom is troubled you feel sympathetic for them, and that person is sad.

Week 2 SAT Words

Anonymous (adj.) - unknown person; nameless.
Anonymous looks like the word annoy, and when someone is annoying, usually you do not want to get close
to them, thus they are invisible to you.

Antagonist (n.) - the bad guy, villain.
Antagon sounds like a certain polygon, but in this case, "An" is nothing in math and literature. Even if it was a shape, it would be hard to calculate, so everyone hates it.

Archetype (n.) - an original/first idea that has changed into different versions.
I remember in an RPG game that I once played, my character was an archangel. Archangels are the highest ranked class in the game so it was the first.

Arid (adj.) - dry.
Throughout many geography classes, students needed to learn about the different climate regions in the world; and to describe deserts, they were arid.

Assiduous (adj.) - constantly working hard.
Please excuse the language in the following description. Back in Canada, I used to be a nerd, and most people called me a donkey for being a nerd (this was during the time when nerds were still hated). Now I don't work hard, but continue to get straight A's. In yo faces!

Asylum (n.) - refuge; sanctuary; institution for mentally ill, orphans, or prisoners.
I don't remember asylum as a good place for people, but in Batman Arkham Asylum, the people in there were nuts, and batman was my favorite super hero.

You better eat your patties!!!!!

Austere (adj.) - severe and incredibly strict.
Austere reminds me of a my cousin, Austin, his parents were less strict to him than austere.

Banal

Banal (adj.) - dull and common, nothing special; average.
If you cancel out some letters and add a 'd' in Banal, you might just get the word bland, and bland doesn't taste so good.

Bellicose (adj.) - having the intention to fight.
A beer belly is a stomach filled with beer in an alcoholic man in a bar fight.

Benevolent (adj.) - kind and friendly, showing good will.
Be-No-Violent. period.

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Week 1 Socialism Applied Torture Words (SAT)

Abbreviate (v.) - to make short or to become short, lengthwise.
Honestly I know what abbreviate means, so idkwtt (I don't know what to write).

Abstinence (n.) - the act to restricting or refraining from.
Absinthe, or the sinful, repulsive, deadly toxin in life should be kept away from anyone. It also has the word "sin" in it.

Ad hoc (adv.) - to consider for a specific purpose.
If you add a hawk to an idea, would that make the idea fly (bad metaphor, but refering to productivity and progress through thought in a one specific thing).

Ad hominem (adj.) - prejudice and stereotypical judgments on a person instead of his or her ideas. MENIMOH DA. In Communications, ad hominem was one of the logical fallacies to avoid.

Ad Hominem in birds

Worthless Adulation

Adulation (n.) - extreme credibility and praise.

One who adds-your-congrats-ulation makes another person feel flattered from friendly felicitation. Boom.

Adversity (n.) - misfortune

A city is a great place, but the opposite of a city, which is a inversed city is probably not a good place to be. A coin toss can either bring you fortune or misfortune.

Aesthetic (adj.) - having the knowledge or able to relate to beauty.
Cosmetics make people ugly, that's why a-cosmetics make people naturally beautiful.

Amicable (n.) - a friendly solution, or settlement.
The cable connects the TV to the circuit plug. Without the cable's agreement, the TV will not turn on. Now, they have partnerships, they are called Cable TV.


Anecdote (n.) - a flashback of a person's history.
Returning back to the past of gaming, Nintendo and NEC were two big companies that started the gaming industry.

Anachronistic (adj.) - Not according to chronological order.
Chrono means time in Latin I think, and A or an means no. Thus, not time order.

Puppet Show: When I Was Young

When I was Young (revised)

Grandpa: Ryan, it's time for you to go to bed now...
Grandson: I don't want to!
Grandpa: But it's getting late, or the Lurkers will come!
Grandson: What Lurkers?
Grandpa: You really wanna know?
Grandson: Yes! Yes! Tell me!
Grandpa: Alright. Now you just get onto that bed and I'll tell ya.
Grandson: Yay! Storytime!
Grandpa: Oh, I wouldn't say its a story, it's a legend
Grandson: What's a legend?
Grandpa: A legend is a story that people believe in.
Grandson: Wow, am I a legend?
Grandpa: Heh heh, well I don't know son, but you sure are easy to fool!
Grandson: Hey! Grandpa!
Grandpa: Ha Ha. So, legend says, the Lurkers come out at night just like this one, to take little children who aren't in bed. And--Are you scared already!?!
Grandson: No! 
Grandpa: Well, then I guess you should stop shaking.
Grandson: I'm not shaking! I'm brave!
Grandpa: Alright. If you say so. So, the Lurkers are horrible creatures whom live in the mountains and have thousands and thousands of arms to grab the little children.
Grandson: Ahhhhhhh! They're going to eat me!
Grandpa: So you better go to bed!
Grandson: Will they eat eat me if I'm in bed?
Grandpa: No, they won't, cuz I'll be watching.
Grandson: Hey, what's that sound?
Grandpa: It's nothing, just probably the wind.
Grandson: But what if it's a Lurker?
Grandpa: Impossible!
Grandson: But you said they come out on a night just like this one!
Grandpa: Oh you'll be fine. Besides, when I was young, in the mountain boy scouts, I was very helpful with everything. I helped everyone. It was like I had thousands and thousands of arms, and they called me the Lurker!
Grandson: I don't get it, but goodnight grandpa.