W11, #1: Photo Vocab Story

Here are your words for Week 11.  Note: the quiz will be on Monday, May 4th.

oligarchy (n) | equilibrium (n) | to comprise (v) | chivalrous (adj) | latent (adj) | empirical (adj) | besieged (adj) | preponderance (n) | inimical (adj) | ruminant (adj) | to perpetuate (v) | collectivism (n) | subsidiary (adj or n) | to ossify (v) | fanaticism (n) | pretense (n) | denunciation (n) | forlorn (adj) | inveteracy (n) | circumstantial (adj)

You know the drill. Select a photo.  Tell a story. 

Use 10 of the words to do so!

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[Student #1]

The chains used to keep the prisoner captured were strong. It was comprised of many metal links. The prisoner sat down hopelessly as he had just been through a denunciation in which he was pronounced guilty without a trial. He was so forlorn and miserable that he could not do anything but stay in a ruminant state. Staying in this meditative state helped him retain equilibrium within his mind. With this state of rest and balance he knew he would stop seeing pretenses of false occurrences. He was feeling besieged and overtaken with so many thoughts that he ended up deciding to get up and walk around in his cell. A visitor had come to visit him and he brought good news. Apparently his lawyer had brought circumstantial evidence that was to be used to get him out of jail. This was only subsidiary to the tapes he had tried to present to the court be the court had refused to accept. The judge was really an inimical person and very unfriendly so he abandoned all hope or getting out of prison.

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Mr. Long's response: The novel has influenced you, to be sure!

[Student #2]

It had been a rough day comprised of me getting fired from my job. I was always pretending and pretense fake person who really just sat in a cube all day for the man. Being in my forlorn unhappy state, I decided to go by the swans. The swans always had a way of an inimical change on life. After reaching equilibrium of equal balance from the swan’s beauty, I sat and thought. This was only circumstantial because I had always would have a job at my brothers company. My younger brother had been smart and collectivism with his company. It gained millions of dollars a month, from his brilliant maneuvers with business and such. Unfortunately my brother preferred me being latent and unseen because as children I beat him in everything, except grades. For a first time a owned and besieged me like a dog. (This would never happen me working for my brother)

[Student #3]

The rusted chains were a dark beacon amidst the sunlight...The system was broken, the fragile equilibrium of society lay upon a single object: The Crystal. Humanity had been reorganized into collectivism of colossal proportions - the Cocoon. The Crystal, a mystical artifact of light, served to perpetuate the quasi-Utopian vision. A heavy fog seemed to burden the citizen's hearts, despite the fact that all necessities were in plain abundance. The latent discontent was building silently over the years. One fateful day, a curious person decided to ponder the workings of the crystal and went exploring. What he discovered was trickery of epic proportions. The people who did not fit the government's picture of an ideal society were expelled. According to them, such inimical acts were necessary to curb what they called 'individualist fanaticism'. Information about this spread until denunciation by the common person was common. Funny thing is, this society was based on actual empirical evidence on what would be best for society as a whole. The preponderance of individuality over collective good will always be one of the paradoxes of life. Ogliarchy for the common good had finally become a reality, and yet it failed. This inveterate, perpetuate belief in the superiority of the individual will, to some extent, al ways remain for good reason. Do not be forlorn by the lack of such prospect, it is what gives each of us that unique human quality that makes us who we are.

[Student #4]

Picture 1

The king and queen were about to attend the Norwegian meeting of the oligarchy. Here, the two as well as three select others would discuss the inveteracy of the new heir. They began to compromise on whether the next ruler should be chosen on empirical experience or if he/she should be one of the king and queens presently immature sons. The preponderance and majority of votes was that it would be someone with common knowledge of being a ruler. Little did the hierarchy know that the two sons were latently attending the meeting from around the corner and out of sight. At first sight the two would appear to be no more intelligent than a group of ruminant cattle but they possessed powers that no one else could grasp. The sons had no intention of even trying to perpetuate the family name now that they knew they weren't wanted. So with forlorn and upset looks they transformed themselves into swans. Their souls now ossified to stone.

[Student #5]

Image 3:
Sitting in a motel parking lot, a couple was finally at a state of equilibrium. They, after a long period of time, had come to a compromise and agreed on one thing, they would not keep their relationship latent and unseen to others. Before this agreement the girl began to besiege her partner, telling him that if they were to stay a secret that then there would be no more relationship. She began to comprise that there would be no possible discussion of anything other than ending things. From the way things looked it seemed as though the girl had preponderance over the boy, but that was not, for he could get the girl to do almost anything. While all this was going on the couple was trying to perpetuate their relationship, trying to keep in from going extinct. They did not want the memories they shared to ossify like those ancient people who could not survive. Although the boy had been circumstantial about his intentions he had accidentally caused a pretense on what exactly he meant. While the girl was left forlorn, depressed to finally hear what he had always meant. Seeing her distress the boy finally saw that she was the girl he had always loved and he wanted nothing more than to make her happy. Not to make her cry.

[Student #6]

Some birds migrate when the seasons change. But these geese are headed south for a different reason. In a world where compromise is scarce, they feel forlorn and forgotten, for the inveteracy of hatred has distracted the minds of those who might have cared. The kingdom of Scotland's social equilibrium had been disturbed, which was perpetuated by circumstantial lies and pretense committed by England. Their sense of pride and fanaticism for their own country was inimical to others, which is the preponderance of reasons for their acts of nationalism. With the besieged Scotland under an iron grip, even the calmest, ossified creature would attempt to escape for the sake of it's own existence.

[Student #7]

The entire county knew that the chivalrous man could not be convicted of treason. He was a courageous man and was always loyal. He entered the courtroom, looking forlorn and very miserable. The detective stood by him while he took the stand, like a subsidiary and the judge asked the man many questions that seemed too inveteracy and deep-rooted. It was about an hour into the trial when the detective provided evidence that may be circumstantial to the case. The judge pondered about the evidence, which appeared to be a letter, and ruminated until the whole congregation fell silent waiting for the denunciation, or verdict. It seemed that hours were passing by and thoughts were going through everyone’s minds as this could be a pretense of false data. Finally the judge looked up wearing his spectacles and announced that the letter was comprised of code words and symbols, but the verdict could still be determined. He then proclaimed that the man was not guilty and his family and him were in a state of equilibrium and rest.

[Student #8]

I forlornly stared at the broken chain knowing that if an iron chain didn’t have a chance at staying together how did the rest of us. There was no way to ossify the chain back together. The empirical chain that had been together for so long, doing so much had finally gave up. The girl’s lively fanaticism as she was on the swing caused the chain to crack. As she fell to the ground the people were besieged around her. But her happiness was all pretenses. The subsidiary of people caused everything to be alright. What was such a great happy activity soon became inimical. The swing no longer was equilibrium. The swing would collapse under anyone who got on it. The chain now was latent. There was a crack but nobody could see it.