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2015-2016 Walking Dictionary 1

1. Exposulated: reason with for the purpose of dissuasion.

      Novel Sentence: “‘I’ve already counted fourteen,’ the cook expostulated. ‘So you did, but didn’t pass them out' " (Solzhenitsyn 74).

      Stand Alone: When I proposed my decision that everybody would disagree with student council, I knew that everybody would quickly expostulate their views.

2. Ration: a fixed portion that is allotted.

      Novel Sentence: “A cleverly fixed work report meant good rations for five days” (Solzhenitsyn 82).

      Stand Alone: Dorm dinner can sometime feel like eating rations. The chef makes set portions for everybody.

3. Amalgamate: to bring or combine together or with something else.

      Novel Sentence: “It’d been amalgamated with neighboring farms - that’d happened before, too, but afterward they’d reduced it to its former     condition” (Solzhenitsyn 39).

      Stand Alone: The best shakes are amalgamated products, that should contain some ice, some sort of creaming agent, and some kind of sweetener.

4. Barren: completely wanting or lacking.

      Novel Sentence: “The steppe was barren and windswept, with a dry wind in the summer and a freezing one in winter“ (Solzhenitsyn 71).

      Stand Alone: Compared to Sapporo, the city I live in the north of Hokkaido, is very barren and absent of life.

5. Apparatus: equipment designed to serve a specific function.

      Novel Sentence: “The vast apparatus just doesn’t care about poor little Ivan” (Solzhenitsyn 116).

      Stand Alone: The beaker is commonly known to be an apparatus used by chemists to mix and simultaneously observe chemicals without the risk of the glass cracking.

6. Haggard: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering.

      Novel Sentence: “He had grown haggard during the past month, but he kept his bearing” (Solzhenitsyn 62).

      Stand Alone: 3 SAT tests, 3 AP classes, 10 college apps to complete, and a lack of sleep, I feel very haggard.

7. Oust: remove from a position or office.

      Novel Sentence: “Shukhov’s job now was to wedge himself in behind a table, oust two loafers, politely ask another prisoner to move...” (Solzhenitsyn 72).

      Stand Alone: If I did something illegal, it is very likely that I will be ousted as student body president. 

8. Sporadically: in an irregular or unpredictable manner.

      Novel Sentence: “Then he became extremely inconsistent, sometimes not only supporting the cover-up of Stalin’s crimes, but sporadically whitewashing the man he had called a murderer” (Solzhenitsyn x).

      Stand Alone: The runnerback was so agile, and fast that nobody could predict his next move, his footwork was just so sporadic.

9. Deliberate: carefully thought out in advance.

      Novel Sentence: “Waiting for work to start, or turned in for the night, they went on talking to each other in their quiet, deliberate manner” (Solzhenitsyn 48).

      Stand Alone: Now I that I have to pick my majors and minors for my future career dreams, I have to deliberate what courses that will help me in medical school.

10. Imperturbable: marked by extreme calm and composure.

      Novel Sentence: "His crumpled, hairless face was imperturbable” (Solzhenitsyn 8).

      Stand Alone:  The monks I saw at the monk were so imperturbable, they never fliched even when I blew in their face.

11. Obliquely: to, toward or at one side.

      Novel Sentence: “...it beams cutting obliquely through the gates, the whole building site, and the fence” (Solzhenitsyn 42).

      Stand Alone: If you do any sort of twisting motion, your obliques are activated because they are muscles that are obliquely placed on both sides of your abdomen to keep your spine stable.

12. Contradictory: unable to be both true at the same time.

      Novel Sentence: "His hero was not a rebel against the camp regime, someone who considered that regime to be abnormal and contradictory to common sense." --> no in-text citation given

      Stand Alone: The discovery of a strange large object around a distant star is sparking a lot of contradictory  debates between astronomers and the media about the existence of alien life.

13. Heave: lift or elevate.

      Novel Sentence: “The prisoners heaved forward with a buzz of excitement” (Solzhenitsyn 119).

      Stand Alone:  Snow shoveling is an exhaustive process of heaving huge lumps of snows to side of the street.

14. Addle: mix up or confuse.

      Novel Sentence: “'Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling'"(Shakespeare Act 3, Scene 1).

      Stand Alone: I like addling Japanese people by them telling that I'm Canadian and their suprised my parents don't own a curry joint.

15. Craven: lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful.

      Novel Sentence: “In previous situations like this, the editions-in-chief of journals either given in cravenly or complained about censorship to the Central Committee” (Solzhenitsyn viii).

      Stand Alone: When I need to ask for something I usually ask Mr. Shaffer, because I am craven when it comes to asking Mrs. Shaffer things.

16. Knave: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.

      Novel Sentence: "HAMLET: 'Who was in life a foolish prating knave'" (Shakespeare III.4.238).

      Stand Alone: I call Ben a knave sometimes as a joke when he forgets something important. 

17. Granulate: form into grains.

      Novel Sentence: "A spoonful of granulated sugar lay in a small mound on top of the hunk” (Solzhenitsyn 24).

      Stand Alone: I forgot that the ziploc back was full of creatine and I poured it into the cake mix thinking it was granulated sugar.

18. Thrifty: mindful of the future in spending money.

      Novel Sentence: “And there lay a small piece of broken hacksaw blade, the tiny length of steel that he’d picked up in his thriftiness at the building site without any intention of bringing it to camp” (Solzhenitsyn 123).

      Stand Alone: When I first joined the dorm I would go broke very quickly, years of experience has taught me to be more thrifty and save money for any future necessities like buying protein.

19. Boisterous: full of rough and exuberant animal spirits.

      Novel Sentence: “'... each small annexment, petty consequence, attends the boisterous ruin'” (Hamlet: 3.3).

      Stand Alone: Joshua is very boisterous when he is with all the other boys in my senior class.

20. Ingenuous: lacking in sophistication or worldliness.

      Novel Sentence: “He smiled ingenuously, revealing the gaps in his teeth, the result of a touch of scurvy at Ust-Izhma in 1943” (Solzhenitsyn 13).

      Stand Alone: The way I text is way more ingenuous than my formal writing, I never end my 'ing's with a g (nawh I ain't buyin), and I put 'z' s instead of 's's to explain a plural object (theres a chickz here why arent u comin).