Gwendy - Vocabulary Enricher - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Pg. 53

Cover of The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Hi Ms. S, so today I was vocabulary enricher for The Cat Ate My Gymsuit. I came up with 14 words that were slightly more puzzling. In the following I will write the word, write the definition, write the sentence from the book that included the word a sentence that I make up that include the word.

1. Pg. 25 Par. 1 - Anonymous - Of unknown name/authorship
Sentence from book - My anonymous letters to the student council suggestion box were ignored.
My sentence - The book was written anonymously and no-body knew the author's name.

2. Pg. 26 Par. 1 - Shrunk - To grow smaller
Sentence from book - "What are you doing? Getting your heads shrunk?"
My sentence - The cat shrunk when it was afraid.

3. Pg. 26 Par. 3 - Tranquilizer - A drug that has a calming effect
Sentence from book - They'd get into a fight and she'd start to cry and then go get a tranquilizer.
My sentence - Do you think that using tranquilizers is just as bad as any other drug?

4. Pg. 32 Par. 2 - Compositions - The act of combining parts to make a whole
Sentence from book - Every Monday we had to hand in compositions.
My sentence - The composition of those two elements creates something strange.

5. Pg. 33 Par. 2 - Propaganda - information or rumours deliberately spread
Sentence from book - Another time, after studying what propaganda is all about we made up 1-minute television commercials.
My sentence - The propaganda campaign expressed lots of false information.

6. Pg. 34 Par. 1 - Satire - the use of sarcasm or irony
Sentence from book - Another time, we talked about humour, satire and parody.
My sentence - She spoke with satire in her voice.

7. Pg. 35 Par. 1 - Trench Coat - a waterproof overcoat. 
Sentence from book - He wore a trenchcoat and a cap, and had a pipe.
My sentence - It was so rainy, I had to wear my Trench Coat.

8. Pg. 35 Par. 2 - Defective - having a defect or flaw
Sentence from book - I'd like to introduce you to my friend, the defective detective.
My sentence - the machine was so defective that it wouldn't work.

9. Pg. 38 Par. 2 - Derivation - the act of being derived ( to receive or obtain from a source or origin.)
Sentence from book - The derivation of that philosophy obviously was influenced by a group of loquacious siblings.
My sentence - The derivation of my surname is Japanese.

10. Pg. 38 Par. 2 - Loquacious - talking a lot or speaking freely 
Sentence from book - The derivation of that philosophy obviously was influenced by a group of loquacious siblings.

My sentence - She always talked so much, she was so loquacious, it was annoying. 

11. Pg. 38 Par. 2 - Erudite - characterized by great knowledge
Sentence from book - It made no sense but it sounded erudite.
My sentence - One of the factors in Divergent is called Erudite, symbolizing knowledge.

12. Pg. 39 Par. 1 - Recuperate - to recover from sickness or exhaustion
Sentence from book - We figured that Ms. Finney must be sick or taking a mental day off to recuperate from teaching us.
My sentence - He recuperated bravely after two years of cancer.

13. Pg. 42 Par. 1 - Syndicate - a group carrying out transactions
Sentence from book - When we got to the gym I went up to the gym teacher and told her that I had been mugged on the way to school by a syndicate specializing in stolen gymsuits.
My sentence - As the law was syndicated internationally then every country should be happy with it.

14. Pg. 51 Par. 1 - Gushing - to flow out or issue suddenly
Sentence from book - As I sat down, my mother started gushing. 
My sentence - The water was gushing very violently.

I found that the few chapters that we read for this weeks literature circles had far more advanced words that the last time we prepared for literature circles. Berny had great trouble coming up with some words as the vocabulary was certainly not as rich as it was in these chapters, which is kind of strange.