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Vocabulary Assignment Once a week you will pass in a typewritten vocabulary assignment.

There is a facsimile of the format on the next page. Each assignment consists of 10 words from the attached list. The list begins in the upper left hand of the page and continues forward, column by column to the lower right hand of the page. The vocabulary words are in groups of ten. There are 30 groups. Each word is to be defined according to Websters Collegiate Dictionary. Your entry must include: o The words etymology, o multiple parts of speech, if applicable, o and multiple definitions, if applicable. Finally, each word is to be used in a sentence or series of sentences in such a way that I understand that you have comprehended the meaning AND sense of the word. Other requirements: MLA format Type-written

Titherington-Hall 1 Anne M.B. Titherington-Hall, KCB Mr. De Vito English III Honors D October 15, 2007 Vocabulary Assignment Number 1 1. manse Noun (Latin mansus = lodging) 1) archaic: the dwelling of a householder; 2) the

residence of a clergyman; especially: the house of a Presbyterian clergyman; 3) a large imposing residence. Merwyn and Maura moved into the old manse, which they had been renovating for four years prior to their marriage - or four rooms each year. One of their new neighbors told them it had once belonged to a Rev. Maurice Quimby who was the first pastor at the now defunct Presbyterian church, but he had lost it and his reputation in a poker game over 100 years ago.

2. perspicacious adjective: Latin perspicac-, perspicax, from perspicere to see through; examine; observe. of acute mental vision or discernment : KEEN Even though he was only 16 years old Murrays perspicacious acuity dazzled both his Math and Science teachers. Not only was he able to define Einsteins Theory of relativity, he was able to explain it within the context of other laws of physics.

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