Vocab 2

Sneer

Quote:"For a few seconds everything goes quiet and you look up and see the sun and a few puffy white clouds, and the immense serenity's flashes against your eyeballs. (page 34

E.A.S.Y I understood this word through the examples it uses by describing the clouds and sky in such a dark and turbulent time

Personal Sentence: The Serenity of the teachers style lead to him falling asleep several times in class.

Resignation

Quote:" Some carried themselves with a wistful resignation others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal." (page 19)

E.A.S.Y I used my logic to explain the definition through the context clues of Resignation with a Dictionary Definition.

Personal Sentence: After years of abuse he finally tended his Resignation into his boss.

Profound

Quote:" The guy's dead he kept saying, which seemed profound, the guy's dead" (Page 12)

E.A.S.Y I used My logic because I knew the definition of the word before reading this passage, but with this context it gave it a different lens to view it through

Personal Sentence: He had a Profound thought in the philosophical discussion he and his friends held.