Monday, January 28, 2008

vocab worrds!

1. erratic - adj. deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion; eccentric; queer: erratic behavior. This picture represents the word erratic because the lady looks crazy looking. She looks a clown and definitely not a person you would see walking around outside. I think when people are nervous their behavior can become erratic.





2. escalate - v. to increase in intensity, magnitude, etc.: to escalate a war; a time when prices escalate. This picture represents the word escalate because its showing a man going up. Another way of using the word escalating would be the problem escalated more than it needed to. I think a lot of things in people's lives are escalated more than they need to be, things get drawn out.







3. euphoria - n. a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania. This picture represents euphoria because they look so happy. When people are in love when they're with people they love I believe they reach a state of euphoria because those people make them so happy. When I am around my best friends and my bf I feel euphoric because they make me so happy.






4. eulogy - n. a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, esp. a set oration in honor of a deceased person; high praise or commendation. This picture represents eulogy because he is giving a speech. Usually when people give eulogy whether it's in a movie or in person I usually cry out of sadness or happiness. When my cousin's read their speeches during my cousin Laura's wedding I cried because they were so cute.






5. eradicate - v. to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate: to eradicate smallpox throughout the world; pull up by the roots. This picture represents the word eradicate because she is eradicating the weed, she's removing it completely.



6) equivocate (verb) - to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.


7) erode (verb) - to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration: Battery acid had eroded the engine. Inflation erodes the value of our money.

8) esoteric (adjective) - understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite:
poetry full of esoteric allusions; private; secret; confidential.

9) espouse (verb) - to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause; to marry.

10) euthanasia [mercy killing] -
the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, esp. a painful, disease or condition.

11) epitome - a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class:
He is the epitome of goodness.

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