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“Scramble, 3/14.” Extra for extras.
–in front of their house –like spring violets — the lawn –was coloring itself –very quietly and slowly
Debrief Test #22. Everybody gets #27 correct.
Vocab Intro. Let’s try to figure out meanings from context.
- Supposedly, since Santa can see everything you do, that makes him OMNISCIENT.
- The author Ray Bradbury was a very PROLIFIC writer, writing at least a thousand words per day.
- The bank clerk had to examine the two $100 bills very carefully to tell which was BONA FIDE.
- On the show CSI, the crime scene investigators used science to DEDUCE whom the killer was.
- The Bible says, “Do not COVET your neighbors stuff,” and be dissatisfied with yours.
- It was hard for Pony to understand the LOATHING that Socs had for greasers.
- The homeless are usually PARIAHS in society; shunned by everyone.
- His mom tried to be very GUILEFUL as she questioned him, trying to trick him into admitting he cheated.
- bold : audacious :: patronizing : CONDESCENDING
- Barak Obama was an ELOQUENT public speaker whose speeches were very inspiring.
- Work is what you are OBLIGED to do. Play is what you are not OBLIGED to do.
“Why are names so important?” The alternative title of the story was “The Naming of Nams”
In 1948, two professors at Harvard University published a study of thirty-three hundred men who had recently graduated, looking at whether their names had any bearing on their academic performance. The men with unusual names, the study found, were more likely to have flunked out or to have exhibited symptoms of psychological neurosis than those with more common names. The Mikes were doing just fine, but the Berriens were having trouble. A rare name, the professors surmised, had a negative psychological effect on its bearer.
Since then, researchers have continued to study the effects of names, and, in the decades after the 1948 study, these findings have been widely reproduced. Some recent research suggests that names can influence choice of profession, where we live, whom we marry, the grades we earn, the stocks we invest in, whether we’re accepted to a school or are hired for a particular job, and the quality of our work in a group setting. Our names can even determine whether we give money to disaster victims: if we share an initial with the name of a hurricane, according to one study, we are far more likely to donate to relief funds after it hits.
“Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed.”p223 in BOB