Week 11 Assignment From Raymond Yan: November 2012

I already used blogger during Year Up. We had to write a blog every few weeks for our Business Communications class to improve our writing and vocabulary skills

Word Bank

methodical (adj.) - painstaking, especially slow and careful; deliberate.

benevolent (adj.) - desiring to help others; charitable.

perpetual (adj.) - lasting an indefinitely long time.

tainted (n.) - a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful. (v.) - to infect, contaminate, corrupt, or spoil.

sanctity (n.) - holiness, saintliness, or godliness.

diminish (v.) - to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.

havens (n.) - any place of shelter and safety; refuge; asylum

huckster (n.) - a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.

captive (adj.) - kept in confinement or restraint.

emblazon (v.) - to decorate with brilliant colors

merit (n.) - something that deserves or justifies a reward or commendation; a commendable quality, act, etc.

commend (v.) - to present, mention, or praise as worthy of confidence, notice, kindness, etc.; recommend.

bovine (adj.) oxlike; cowlike.

ideology (n.) - the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.

doctrine (n.) - a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government.

advocate (v.) - to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly.

geothermal (adj.) - of or pertaining to the internal heat of the earth.

solicit (v.) - to entreat or petition (someone or some agency).

entreat (v.) - to ask earnestly: beseech; implore; beg.

earnest (adj.) - seriously important; demanding or receiving serious attention.

beseech (v.) - to beg eagerly for; solicit.

implore (v.) - to beg urgently or piteously for.

clamor (n.) - a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people. (v.) - to drive, force, influence, etc.

adorn (v.) - to make more pleasing, attractive, impressive.

egregious (adj.) - extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant.

taboo (adj.) - proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable; prohibited or excluded from use or practice.

rampant (adj.) - violent in action or spirit; raging; furious

bias (v.) - to cause partiality of favoritism in a person; influence, especially unfairly.

superficial (adj.) - shallow; not profound or thorough

Week 11 Assignment From Raymond Yan

What is your favorite search engine?

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Another post with a picture

My first blog for CCSF