Vocabulary for Week of 3/9/15 (Maus)
Due Tuesday: Look up definitions at learnersdictionary.com.  Due Wednesday: Finish the Show Me You Know Sentences. Optional for +1 each: For any word you rate less than a 4 after class Thursday, review the definition, and use it in a sentence of your own on the back of this sheet. Show them to me Friday for extra credit.
1 = I have never heard of it.  2 = I kind of know what it means.  3 = I know it.   4 = I could teach it to the class.

Before
After  
Definition  (Due Tuesday.)                                                                
succumb
 


subsist (on)
 


presumptuous

 
 
avant-garde(adj)



reproach



cathartic



frugal



cobble
(not shoes)



futile



dissemble



ambivalent



Show Me You Know Sentences. (Due Wednesday.)
He finally succumbed...

The Jews can barely subsist on...

She thought it was presumptuous of him...

It was seen as very avant-garde...

Jonas was reproached...

It was a cathartic experience...

He was very frugal...

He cobbled together...

It was futile to...

I dissembled when...

I am ambivalent about...