Sublime (suh BLYME)-of great intellectual, moral, or spiritual value; superior; impressive
Examples:

Listening to the sublime music of Mozart, you can’t help but be impressed by it.
The chef’s sublime creation--her baked Alaska--is so popular that the restaurant runs out of it every night.

Quote:
Good-Deeds: All earthly things is but vanity:

Beauty, Strength, and Discretion, do man forsake,

Foolish friends and kinsmen, that fair spake,

All fleeth save Good-Deeds, and that am I.

Everyman: Have mercy on me, God, most mighty;

And stand by me, thou Mother and Maid, holy Mary.


Everyman

to me this quote means that beautiful is only beautiful and does not last forever and neither do all the other things the other things man for sakes tem he everyman also wants him to stand by him through everything. he is trying to be sublme with good deeds.

Furrow (FUR oh)-a narrow groove; to make wrinkles in the face
Examples:

• Diane was worried about her test, and you could see the concern in her furrowed brow.
• The furrows on his face made him look older than he was.

Quote:
GOD:

They forget clean, and shedding of my blood red;

I hanged between two, it cannot be denied;

To get them life I suffered to be dead;

I healed their feet; with thorns hurt was my head:

I could do no more than I did truly,

And now I see the people do clean forsake me.

They use the seven deadly sins damnable;

As pride, covetise, wrath, and lechery,

Everyman

to me this quote means god is furrowing his face to the people who are all doing wrong. they know that they shouldnt be doing wrong but they still choose to do bad. they still choose to commit the sins and not think twice about anything about it to chage their beaviors

Tentative (TEN ta tihv)-not final or fully worked out; hesitant

Examples:

• We had tentative plans to go on vacation in July, but we moved it to August.
• I was tentative the first time I swam in the ocean, but after a while, I got the hang of it.

Quote:
Go thou to Everyman,
And show him in my name
A pilgrimage he must on him take,
Which he in no wise may escape;

Everyman

what this quotwe means to me is that the person who he is telling this to is a lilttle bit tentative and does not want to go. everyman is telling him to go to everyman and show everyone who he is make them take a pilgrimage. if they are wise they will not not take this pilgrimage. if they know what is good fo rhtem

Halcyon (hal-see-uhn) adj.-calm and peaceful

Examples:

• Alice and David tried to recreate the halcyon days at the beginning of their relationship, but they could not.
• It is better to learn to sail on the halcyon waters of a lake than on the rough seas.

Quote:
How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: of tomorrow there's no knowing.

Lorenzo De' Medici

to me this quote means that when we were youthful we were all very halcyon but not that we are older we have lost that part of us. in stead of being halcyon we are angry and that our youthfulness is slipping away. someone who wants to be happy others hould let them be because they are living the day because they do not know what is to come of them tomorrow

Tepid (TEH pihd)-lacking in passion, force, or zest
Examples:

• The singer’s performance was tepid; he didn’t evoke any emotion or passion.
• Your tepid attempt to convince me of your claim wasn’t strong enough to persuade me.

Quote:
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Giovanni Boccaccio

this quote is saying that in order for you to be human you have to have compassion for the people that are unhappy. if you are tepid for other people then you are not human according to this quote.

Purge (PERJ)-to free from impurities; purify; to rid of sin or guilt

Examples:

• A three-day fast is an excellent way to purge your body of impurities.
• The movie made me cry so much I felt like I was purging everything sad that ever happened to me.

Quote:
The light, that lies in woman's eyes, has been my heart's undoing.

Thomas More

to me this quote means that when he looks in a woman ees it is something that get him. it catches his heart and messes up his life it undues his life. its like the light purges everything ut of his heart

Parched (PARCHED)-dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

Examples:

• After running the marathon, Monica was parched and looked for a beverage.
• My throat was parched and scratchy when I had the flu this winter.

Quote:
If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Andreas Capellanus

to me this quote means that out of your whole life you can say that you have a friend a single friend you have accomplished the greatest gist its like finding water while you are in the desert parched. it is also saying that nothing that oyu can have can be as valuable as a friend.. so keep the one that you have

Oppressive (uh PRES ihv)-unreasonably burdensome or severe

Examples:

• Please put on the air conditioner--the heat in here is absolutely oppressive!
• Mr. Rounds' homework assignments were so oppressive they prevented us from getting any of our other work done.

Quote:
Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other.

Andreas Capellanus

to me this quote is describing what love is its telling that its for the opposite sex also sying that they are not opressing their love or one another they are expecting that all things will heppen and will love eah other and be there for each other

Optimistic (op tih MIST ik)-anticipating the best possible outcome

Examples:

• It’s hard to believe Ty and Darius are twins; Ty sees the worst in everything, and Darius is always optimistic.
• He was so optimistic about his chances of getting the job that he had already picked out a new wardrobe for it.

Quote:
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.Andreas Capellanus

to me this quote means that when there is money that there love is absent. the person is only wanting the person because they have money . the person that is getting used is very optimistic ant they hope that they are ot getting played but in reality they are

Desolate (DEH so lit)-devoid of inhabitants; deserted, barren; lifeless; sad and forlorn

Examples:

• During Christmas vacation, the college campus is desolate because all the students have gone home.
• The ship’s crew discovered a desolate island that was once inhabited with a lively culture.

Quote:
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.

Christopher Marlowe

to me what this quote means that we are all n hell which is really desolate becuas this person has a negetive outlook on life.

Prodigious (pruh DIJ us)-enormous
Examples:

• The shattered vase required a prodigious amount of glue to repair.
• His vast library contained a prodigious amount of books.

Quote:
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

to me this quote that meant the ways to find out if man has an prodigious amount of intelligence is to look at who he surrounds himself with and the people tha are around him if he surrounds himself by smart people look out he may be done however if he surrounds himself by dumb people t could also be to make himself smarter man becomes who he hangs out with.

Permeated (PER mee ayt id)-spread or flowing throughout
Examples:

• After the Citrus Fest, the scent of fresh oranges permeated the air.
• The smell of my mother’s chicken soup permeated the kitchen and made me hungry.

Quote:
From a little spark may burst a flame.

Dante Alighieri

to me this quote means that many great things comes from small thing. so the spark permeated through and created a burst of flam and ball of energy some greater then what it started out as

Copious (KOH pee us)-plentiful; having a large quantity
Examples:

• Since she didn’t understand physics very well at all, she was sure to take copious notes during class.
• It’s important to drink copious amounts of water when you are exercising a lot.

Quote:
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
Dante Alighieri

to me this quote means that dont for get any thing tonithe and enjoy things in their copious form for be cause with dante its the begginning of him giving to who ever he told this qote to

Mentor (MEN tor)-a trusted counselor or guide
Examples:

• My older brother acted as my mentor when we were both in high school; he showed me the ropes and advised me on what classes to take.
• When Patti’s mentor taught her everything she needed to know, he told her it was time for her to go out on her own.

Quote:
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.Geoffrey Chaucer

what this quote means to me is that peope who we look at today as being great people and smart people are not. they have made many mistakes and that is why we look at them for guidence becuse they have made mistakes and if we look at them we may not make those same mistakes. the scholors have been great mentors in a way by leaving their writings and doings for us to look at in history.

Melodrama (MEL oh drah mah)-a drama characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts
Examples:

• There’s too much melodrama in the film; give me a good old-fashioned action flick any day!
• He is known for melodrama, pretending things are more serious than they are, and enjoy the attention his emotional outbursts get him.

Quote:
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Giovanni Boccaccio

to me this blog means that any person that is human will feel sympathy when someone else hey are with or that they kknow are sad or unhappy.

Melancholy (MEL un kol ee)-depression of spirits
Examples:

• The only thing that lifts my melancholy is lots and lots of candy.
• The actress had a thoughtful, melancholy air about her; she always looked as if she were about to cry.

Quote:
We know little of the things for which we pray.
Geoffrey Chaucer


to me this means that the major things we pray for we dont know what comes a long with them. many of us pray for money and power, however know nothing of what comes along with money and power. if they did many of them would not pray for it or pray for it in great amounts. people tend to think that money and power will lift what ever melancholy they have but really dont know the evil that comes along with it.

Word of the Day:
Incite (in SITE)-to move to action
Examples:

• Hearing Chopin’s beautiful music for the first time incited me to study the piano.
• His words were so powerful and revolutionary that his speech almost incited a riot.

Quote:
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer

This quote is saying that people who have commited a crime feel guilty and everytime ssomeone is talking they feel that it is of them they think that people may know that they did the crime and are taslking about them.. however its only their conscious

Word of the Day:
Goad (GOAD)-to provoke; to stir to action or feeling
Examples:

• Thanks to Christian’s constant goading, Rhonda finally enrolled in the karate class.
• There’s no way you’re going to goad me into trying sweetbreads--I know they are calf’s brains!

Quote:
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.


to me this quote means that St. Francis of Assisi did a lot of things in his life time and he knows that they were all bad things that he was forgiving by god or knows that he will be forgiving so he feels that he has done the worse and that anyone now can b forgiving even if they have been goaded into doing the unthinkable. he worked thorugh him and forgave him and made him a god obiding person so therefore he can go through anyone and make them a better person