Vocabulary


 *  ven⋅ture **

 / ˈvɛntʃər  /    [  **ven** -cher  ]  **–noun **  -CJ Higgins __Desultory-__ adj -Erratic, unsteady, wavering, unorganized __In Context__ "The bidding was **desultory**, and when the auctioneer, citing the youth's soundness, exhorted the crowd to higher offers, a cry came forth..." pg 43 Drew Hardt
 *  noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing,   **  **adjective**
 * 1. || an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, esp. a risky or dangerous one: //a mountain-climbing venture.// ||
 * 2. || a business enterprise or speculation in which something is risked in the hope of profit; a commercial or other speculation. ||
 * 3. || the money, ship, cargo, merchandise, or the like, on which risk is taken in a business enterprise or speculation ||

__aerie__- **noun** -The nest of a bird of prey, like an eagle or a hawk -A house, a fortress, or the like, located on a hill or high mountain __In Context__ "//I hope my dear young author is finding time amid all her many good works to make use of my little den, and that her friendly rats will not grudge a short absence from her accustomed **aerie**."// pg. 3 (Amy Yang)

__In Context:__//"In a day, two days, they will glide on, a funeral flotilla, past the unfinished white dome rising out of its scaffolds on a muddy hill in Washington"- pg. 8//
 * __Flotilla-__ noun**
 * 1. || a group of small naval vessels, esp. a naval unit containing two or more squadrons. ||
 * 2. || a group moving together: The governor was followed by a whole flotilla of reporters. ||

//Amanda Sherman//

__pedagogic-__ **adjective -**of or pertaining to a pedagogue or pedagogy.

__pedagogue__-**noun** -a teacher; schoolteacher

__pedagogy__-**noun -**the function or work of a teacher; teaching. -the art or science of teaching; education; instructional methods.

//"As a result, my judgement was impaired that night, for I let the lesson go longer than usual, and was waxing on some point of no doubt critical **pedagogic** importance when I noticed that my pupil, for the first time, had dropped off to sleep, her little chin cupped in her hand." pg. 33

Katie Hart//

__Sinuous__- (adj.) winding; devious

//"In the center of the house a sinuous staircase with acanthus leaf carving swept up from an oval entry hall." (pg 16)//

- Becca Flis

 -(noun) a chicken of any of several varieties or breeds characterized by very small size -(noun) a small and feisty quarrelsome person -(adj) diminutive or tiny
 * Bantam**

//"////I watched him through the window like a bantam cock across the lawn to the house." page 36//

-Jenna Lewanda

**Diminutive** (adj). small, little or tiny "The manager perched between them, his **diminutive** stature emphasized by the tallness of the Clements" pg 37 -Michelle Bauer

"' Name a vice, Mr. March: laziness, deceit, debauchery, theft.'" (pg. 25) -Mike Reluzco
 * Debauchery (n.)**
 * 1) Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.
 * 2) (archaic) Seduction from duty.

-Evidence of authority, status, rights, or entitlement to privilege.
 * Credentials**

"But I'd soon discovered that even here, communities well set enough to have a school wanted __credentials__, or at least maturity in years, neither of which I could claim, while the poor in remote places didn't care to have their children schooled at all." **(**pg. 30-31). -Matt Masto  **Relegate (v.)** to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition; to to assign or refer to a particular class or kind. "//I expected to take up the duties of one of our house servants and have that unfortunate **relegated** to the fields, but nothing of that kind happened." -pg. 53 ~//Shannon Walsh

gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder. "Perhaps my biliousness and grief and exhaustion."- page 10 ~Brittany Valentino~
 * __biliousness__** (n.)

to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate. "And with this thought I exculpate my censorship: I never promised I would write the truth." (pg 4) -Alex Verrelli
 * __Exculpate__** (v.)

Evan Farina exigent   [ek-si-juhnt] –adjective 1. requiring immediate action or aid; urgent; pressing. 2. requiring a great deal, or more than is reasonable. Pg. 27 Line 4: Exigency **"...so the master suffers from the exigencies of providing apt example.**

"My hand, which I note is flecked with traces of dried phlegm, has the tremor of exhaustion." pg. 3 Paul Jones
 * **phlegm** ||
 * //noun// ||
 * 1. || apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions ||
 * 2. || expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness ||
 * 3. || inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" ||

–verb (used with object) ** __**–verb (used without object)** __ "But what i shirked were the tasks themselves, foul and cruel." pg. 10 Marissa Swyer
 * __Shirk__
 * __**1.**__ || __**to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).**__ ||
 * __**2.**__ || __**to evade work, duty, etc.**__ ||

edifice
[ed-//uh//-fis] -noun- 1.) Any large, complex system or organization. 2.) A building especially one of large size or opposing appearance. "He knew that his erroneous report was the crumbling footing on which our whole day's __edifice__ had collapsed." ---Page 47 Emily Drooby

<span style="color: rgb(235, 161, 76);"><span style="color: rgb(122, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(79, 34, 185);">__**Husbandry**__: n. <span style="color: rgb(61, 7, 213);"><span style="color: rgb(79, 34, 185);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(122, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(79, 34, 185);"><span style="color: rgb(133, 76, 235);">"In this way no one mistakes personal malice for what is mere necessity of good **husbandry**." pg.26 Serena Stevens <span style="color: rgb(61, 7, 213);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(235, 161, 76);"><span style="color: rgb(122, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(79, 34, 185);">1.  || <span style="color: rgb(235, 161, 76);"><span style="color: rgb(122, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(79, 34, 185);">the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.   ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(235, 161, 76);"><span style="color: rgb(122, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(79, 34, 185);">2.  || <span style="color: rgb(235, 161, 76);"><span style="color: rgb(122, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(79, 34, 185);">careful or thrifty management; frugality, thrift, or conservation.   ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(235, 161, 76);"><span style="color: rgb(122, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(79, 34, 185);">3.  || <span style="color: rgb(235, 161, 76);"><span style="color: rgb(122, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(79, 34, 185);">the management of domestic affairs or of resources generally.   ||

<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 204); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> //<span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 204); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">erroneous: adj. Not true, correct, or right. Containing an error or errors. "He knew that his erroneous report was the crumbled footing on which our whole day's edifice had collapsed. Pg 47 -Rosa Commisso // Parsonage **<span style="color: rgb(87, 87, 87);">–noun **
 * 1. || the residence of a member of the clergy, as provided by the parish or church. ||
 * 2. || //English Ecclesiastical Law// . the benefice of a parson. ||

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noun: a violent, turbulent or brawling woman. //" Of course, i will first have to find a partner willing to share his life with such an opinionated termagant.//" Alli Cropsey- 64
 * Termagant**:

verb: to intimidate or domineer. //"...even as she hectored me about the wicked ways of my kind..."// michael doherty. page fourteen.
 * hector**