Wednesday, November 26, 2008

November 26

Seven Deadly Sins

1. Pride
Meaning-A sense of one's own proper dignity or value
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2. Avarice(Greed)
Meaning- An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth
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3. Envy
Meaning- A feeling of discontent and resentment aroused by and in conjunction with desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
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4. Wrath(anger)
Meaning- Forceful, often vindictive anger
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5. Lust
Meaning- Intense or unrestrained sexual craving
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6. Gluttony
Meaning- Excess in eating or drinking.
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7. Sloth
Meaning- Aversion to work or exertion; laziness; indolence.
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http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Inu-Tasha/The%20Deadly%20Sins%20of%20Hell/

Homework:
Identify at least 4 similes in chapter 5.
"Her flower like lips touched the withered cheek"<
"He was like a common gardener walking with a rose."
"The tulip-bed across the road flamed like throbbing rings of fire."
"The brightly colored parasols danced and dipped like monstrous butterflies."
"They cut the air like a dagger."

Vocabulary words you may need to know for Chapter 6
Infatuation- A foolish, unreasoning, or extravagant passion or attraction
Virtues- Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.
Incorrigible- Incapable of being corrected or reformed
Pompous- Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity
Spiritualize- To impart a spiritual nature to
Interminable- Being or seeming to be without an end; endless
Fiasco- A complete failure.
Profanation- The condition or quality of being profane
Anodyne- Capable of soothing or eliminating pain
Illusion- An erroneous perception of reality.

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