apathetic

Part of Speech: adjective

The Source Sent. & Page #:
"...that perhaps included in the freedoms in this country is the freedom to be apathetic."
Funny in Farsi pg. 118

Context Clues: From my logic, i know that apathetic means when you don't feel anything. You just feel empty inside.

Definiton: having or showing little or no emotion

Your Original Sentence: Lately I've been feeling very apathetic towards everyone.

Extricate

Part of Speech: verb

The Source Sent. & Page #:
"The more I tried to extricate myself, the harder she clung. "
Funny in Farsi pg. 123

Context Clues: From my logic, I know that extricate means to set free or let go of something or someone.

Definition: to free or release from entanglement; disengage

Your Original Sentence: My dream is to someday be a cop and extricate individuals from dangerous situations.

Staunch

Part of Speech: adjective

The Source Sent. & Page #:
"In 1980, however, despite my father's staunch devotion to freedom and fairness, he was still a foreigner with an accent, an accent that after the Iranian Revolution was associated with all things bad."
Funny in Farsi pg. 119

Context Clues: In the source sentence, the word after staunch, "devotion", means to have a certain form of loyalty so then maybe staunch has to be a synonym of devotion.

Definition: firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person

Your Original Sentence: Im grateful for having such staunch friends that I can talk to about anything.

Reflection

Since we began studying the vocabulary words, i have honestly been actually learning the words. Before when i would study for vocabulary test, i would just memorize the meaning of words just so i could do good on a a test. Nevertheless, this time im actually taking my time in learning and understanding the words. I want to improve my vocabulary because i've noticed that it's not so great. I feel that if i write more essays and papers with high vocabulary, i will feel good about myself because it will show me that my writing skills and vocabulary have improved tremendously. I really like how we get too pick words that we don't understand of the book Funny in Farsi and then they get put on the test. I really am learing a lot and i even still remember the vocabulary words from the first test suprisingly. I hope i don't forget them but im gonna study them still. Also i like how the test is not matching the words with their definitions because i feel like that never really works. It's better putting the words onto sentences because that way we learn how we can use them in sentences correctly as well as their meaning. Surprisingly, I've been using a couple of vocabulary words already in conversations and i feel really cool when i say them now because my friends ask what it means and I just laugh. There were also some words that we studied and i finally learned their meaning and I had seen the word before and was always curious to know what it meant. Nevertheless, I hope that as we continue to have new vocabulary words each week that i really learn them good and my goal is to not forget them this time. I really am striving to learn and improve my vocabulary !

Capacity

Part of Speech: noun

Source Sent. & Page #:
"As he found within himself the capacity to rise above his humiliating circumstances, he became an observer as well as a participant in the experience. "
Connect pg. 152

Context Clues: from my logic, capacity is a term used when there is a large amount of space in an area to contain

Definition: the ability to receive or contain

Your Original Sentence: The hotel has a large capacity.

Dote

Part of Speech: Verb

Source Sent. & Page # :
"Now, whenever we visit my relatives, all whom dote on my husband, i realize that he didn't marry me despite my tribe, he married me because of them. "
Funny in Farsi pg. 103

Context Clues: in the text, "all whom dote on my husband", dote must mean either they hate him or love him because "whom" refers to a group.

Definiton: to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually

Your Original Sentence : There are many parents who dote on their only child.

Impelling

Part of Speech: verb

Source Sent. & Page #:
"the impelling conviction of those who were to survive that they had a mission to perform, some important work left to do."
Connect pg. 152

Context Clues: from my own logic, impel means when something has a big impact or move on an individual or object.

Definition: to drive or cause to move onward; propel; impart motion to.

Your Original Sentence : During class i had to read the last few paragraphs of Macbeth, which suprisingly had an impelling ending.