Homework due Monday 5/15

Over the weekend, be sure to pick which essay you want to complete for your Mastery work! We will begin working on the essay in-class next week. Also…maybe a vocab quiz on Monday! Check out the vocabulary words and a copy of the Mastery Work below.

​Vocabulary Words

• Cunning- skill in deception; guile
• Forgery- the act of forging; illegally producing something counterfeit
• Categorical- unambiguously explicit and direct
• Infanticide- killing an infant
• Stupefied- to be made unable to think or feel properly
• Unaccountable- free from accountability; not responsible
• Countenance- a person's face or facial expression
• Hullabaloo- a loud confused noise of protest; commotion
• Pensioner- a person who is receiving a pension, usually an old-age pension from the state
• Sentinel- to watch over as a guard/to provide with a guard
• Machination- the act of plotting; a crafty plan for the accomplishment of a sinister goal
• Beatific- bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, etc.
• Capitulate- cease to resis and opponent; surrender
• Mangel- a vegetable with a large root, cultivated as feed for livestock
• Chaff- straw cut up for animal food