LIST 2
Flowers for Algernon/A Man with No
Eyes
Lucille was apathetic toward doing
homework and therefore failed all
her classes.
APATHETIC-- adjective
Lacking concern or interest.
Showing no emotion.
APATHY-- noun
Sympathy: sym = with, together
path = emotion, feeling
Apathy: a = no, not
path = emotion, feeling
WARNING !
If you say someone shows no
apathy, that means they are
showing an interest and concern.
55,000 Hoosier students
chronically miss school each year,
study says
Aug. 19, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS —
The director for education policy said during a
legislative hearing that while overall attendance in
Indiana is around 95 percent, that number
overshadows the problem of chronic absences.
Spradlin said Friday that data from a study
conducted by the center in 2011 showed that
chronic absences affect testing results.
Homer Simpson
HOMER SIMPSON
= CHRONIC FAILURE
CHRONIC-- adjective
Constant or habitual
CHRONICALLY: ADVERB
“I don’t have time to work and study” is a
feeble excuse
Wednesday 21 August 2013
Movie review: Too many feeble foes
weaken 'Wolverine'
July 26, 2013 12:18 am
A Feeble Response to Ebola
By SILAS KPANAN’AYOUNG SIAKOR and NORA BOWIER
SEPT. 12, 2014
MONROVIA, Liberia — The spread of
the Ebola virus across West Africa has been fast
and deadly.. To date, at least 2,288 people in the
region have died, and some 4,269 confirmed or
probable cases have been reported. But the
global response has been underwhelming; the
aid group Doctors Without Borders has
characterized international efforts to tackle the
crisis as “dangerously inadequate.”
FEEBLE-- adjective
weak
FEEBLENESS: NOUN
FEEBLY: ADVERB
SQUIRREL’S FEEBLE ATTEMPT AT JUMPING
There Is A Tangible Buzz Around The USC
Men's Basketball Program
July 24, 2013
First Day Shoe Fund provides tangible
boost, real smiles for school children
who need them
August 02, 2013
July 24, 2013
TANGIBLE-- adjective
Able to be touched; having
substance
TANGIBILITY: NOUN
TANGIBLY: ADVERB
“exploit the users
naivety”
Social Media Warning: Tweets are Court Evidence
"There can be naivety, in that people believe they can
say things on social media and it won't be used
against them," said Mr McDonald, as quoted by
Metro.
"Social media is also used as a tool by people in the
Crown Prosecution Service or the police; for instance,
they may ask someone alleging rape to send a
message to the person they are accusing asking why
they did it. Their reply can then be used in evidence,"
he said in a report by the Herald Sun
Naivety (naivete)-- noun
Innocence; lack of experience or
knowledge
NAIVE: adjective
NAIVELY: adverb
Hunger Striking Prisoners' Health Continues to
Deteriorate
Published on Monday, 05 August 2013
DETERIORATE-- verb
To become worse; to fall apart
DETERIORATION: NOUN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xWFl_MB0AQ
Stop-and-Frisk and American Freedom
Recognizing “furtive movements” is part of
basic self-preservation.
19 August 2013
One of the teenagers managed to make a
quick, furtive call to an emergency line saying
he had been kidnapped. The call was initially
believed to be a prank and there was no
follow-up until the parents of one of the
teenagers called police to say their son was
missing.
FURTIVE-- adjective
Done in a secretive or hidden way
FURTIVENESS: NOUN
FURTIVELY: ADVERB
AMIABLE-- adjective
friendly
AMIABLENESS: NOUN
AMIABLY: ADVERB