1. Sylvia’s and Rachel’s Presentation

2. Cacophonous
• Having a discordant In the 1960s,
sound conservative critics of
rock and roll bashed
the Beatles and called
their music
cacophonous and
vulgar.

3. The way she walked into
Casual the meeting made it
seem like it was just
• Informal another casual day
language, without rather than preparing
importance to meet the president.

4. Caustic
• Sarcastic, harsh.
Person 1: The milk is
in the fridge…
Person 2: Thank you
Dr. obvious!

5. Concrete
• To be If you can; touch it, hear
literal, fact, without it, smell it, taste it, and
doubt. see it may not be a
stone but its pretty
concrete.

6. Connotative
Suggestive to a
secondary in A big beautiful house
addition to the doesn’t always say
primary meaning. “Welcome Home”.

7. Crisp
• Briskly decisive and Of course a meal wouldn't
matter-of-fact without be complete without a
hesitation or glass of deliciously
unnecessary detail crisp, dry white robola
wine.

8. Rude Curt
response, t That dress doesn’t suit
you well, it makes you
o be
look wider.
rude, harsh
.

9. Denotative
To stand as a name or
symbol for.

10. Divisive
• To separate, or cause Religion creates
disturbance. divisiveness.

11. Emotional
• To have intense feeling. She bawled when
she found that the
bump she ran
over on the road
was a squirrel.

12. Euphonious
• Pleasing to the ear. After a hard week of work
a night downtown
hearing the violinist
work their magic was
just what I needed.

13. Homespun
• Simple and The legs of his pants
unsophisticated appeared to be
disproportionate when
he stood straight.

14. Symbolic
• To represent something. Who would’ve known
that not paying
attention to the red
octagon could cost you
a weeks paycheck?

15. Simple
• To be plain. A plain t-shirt and faded
old jeans was her way
of life.

16. Figurative
• Metaphorical She is the head of the
company.

17. Bombastic
• High sound but with Her pompous attitude
little meaning and her flamboyant
sense of style made it
clear that she was a
force to be reckon with.

18. Abstruse
• Difficult to understand
At times poems
contain complex
language making
it difficult to
comprehend.

19. Grotesque
• Horrific, not appealing The chemicals that
contaminated the water
cause a lot of
malformations to the
newborn farm
animals, some even had
two heads.

20. Vulgar
• Lacking sophistication Tattoos nearly covered his
arm, a scar crossed his
face holding a story
behind it, it was more
than obvious that he
was bad to the bone.

21. Scholarly
• To speak with The heir to the throne
intelligence. must have an utmost
education showing their
understanding of a
cultured lifestyle.

22. Insipid
• To lack taste. She could have been the
Cinderella from the story,
by the dull way she
carried herself showed
that she was not that
lively girl at the party.

23. Precise
• To be on point. If a measurement or angle
in the blue print was off
it could cause the
building to collapse
before even being
finished.

24. Picturesque
• To give a vivid picture, • The 9/11 memorial at
describe a picture night is breath taking
accurately. with the light shinning
on the water making it
glimmer as is pours
over the walls.

25. Provincial
• Narrow minded, Her narrowed minded way
country side, lacking of thinking and the lack
urban sophistication. of urban sophistication
showed the provincial
life she lived.