Vocabulary #3: English 9

1. acquisition: something newly gained

The acquisition of a laptop for each of the students excited them immensely.
2. benevolence: goodness, an inclination to perform kind, charitable acts.

The benevolent lady gave 50% of her income to charities every year. The lady was so full of benevolence that she gave 50% of her income to charities.
3. compelled: to force or drive

Ms. Taylor compelled her students to do their work with incredibly frightening glares and the brandishing of her pencil.
4. eccentric: unconventional, out of the norm, odd

The eccentric old lady baked chocolate chip cookies with green food coloring (and sugar) for all the kids in the neighborhood because she naively believed that the green would compensate for the sugar.

5. melancholy: sadness or depression, gloomy

I was melancholy when my dog died.
6. mortification: extreme embarrassment or shame

She was mortified when the teacher read the note about the boy she liked aloud to the class. He felt great mortification when he walked up to the lectern to deliver the speech he had completely forgotten.
7. squandered: wasted, not taken advantage of

He squandered all of his money at the carnival booths in just under 30 minutes.
8. fortitude: strength of mind that allows one to endure

It took great fortitude to survive the freshmen's constant blabbering in class.
9. tyrannical: overpowering, oppressive

If Ms. Taylor's students think she's tyrannical they've never met Mrs. Sorensen who fails students for forgetting to write their names on their papers.
10. unfathomable: unbelievable, hard to understand

Ms. Taylor's intelligence is unfathomable; her students worshipped her keen intellect.

denotation: dictionary definition: (fat

connotation: implied meaning (big boned= positive connotation of fat, fat pig = negative connotation of fat)