Online Class Notes (Jesse)

focused on her vocab list

Vocabulary

strolling – slow
frolicking – happy / slow
wandering – relaxing / slow
meandering – relaxing / slow / not straight (detouring / deviating)
skipping – happy / fast / dancing

he’s beating around the bush

syrupy / chocolatey / fluffy / fuzzy

anomoly / anonymous – unknown, not normal

downright – very very (negative)
eg. downright rude!

volatile – unstable / easy to suddenly explode (think volcano)

downer – sb who makes others depressed / in a bad mood / doesn’t participate in fun things

salient – very important / noticable

empirical – based on experiments / evidence / facts

heed – follow / pay attention to
eg. heed my words / warnings

negate – reverse
eg. if you drink coffee after a beer it should negate the alcoholic effects

tenure / term – period in office

mundane / boring / tiresome – wu liao de

morph – change / distort
eg. snapchat has facial morphing functionality

reconcile – to eventually agree / come to an understanding and put aside your differences
eg. they reconciled in the end

ludicrous / ridiculous / crazy

leer – a creepy way of looking at someone
eg. some old man was leering at me

oblivious / clueless / have no idea
eg. she’s totally oblivious to the way she looks / to how stupid she sounds