Vocab 9/5/2011 [Alice in Wonderland]

1) Contribute to - play a part in. Add in

Example - In the Natsu Matsuri festival, I contribute the fun by singing a Japanese song

2) Insight - understand how things work and how people think or act. 

Example - When acting, the director have to insight the character personalities. 

3) Evident - Obvious clue. 

Example - Her reaction make a evident that she is extremely happy and surprise right now.

4) Express - Show your feeling ; put into words. 

Example - You can learn more about the character by how they express themselves.

New Vocab

Potentially - likely, possible able to happen

The giant earth quake and tsunami potentially have the most effect in the world because that can be a signal of the earth changing. 

Proposal - To confess, suggest, recomended

The man make a proposal to marry her in a very romantic way

Hazard - Dangerous

All of these signs are represent hazard things like poison, fire, electrical....

Empower - authorise, allowable, enable

Gun are empower in some jobs like police so they can make sure the country is safe 


Ample - Wide, extendsive...

From 2PM to 5PM, we have an ample of time. 

Vocabularies Historical Fiction

1) Intensified - Become more intense, to become stronger or angrier in a situation.

Example - The angriness of the man on the right hand intensified because the man of the left doesn't get what he is saying. 


2) Vital - Important for your life.

Example - Water is vital to your life, without water, you will die for sure.

3) Immortality - Undead

Example - People believe that God live immortality.

4) Legitimate - Doing something legally due to a law
Example - A couple want to get married have to have a wedding to be a legitimate husband and wife.

5) Tremor - Tremble, shivering, shaking.

Example - When the timperature get too cold, we usually tremor.

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Vocabulary - All Americans

Observation - Looking at something, notice things to learn.

 Example - This guy is looking through a binocular, he is having an observation of something.

2) Emphasize - Pay special attention

Example - When you are looking at this picture, you emphasize the bug immediately.

3) Reaction - response to something

 Example - There must be something really surprise and sudden happen to make her have such a reaction.

4) Define - to clear the meaning of the word ; to make something clear.

 Example - A dictionary is a good tool when you want to define the definition of the word that you don't know.

5) Tersely - short but easy to understand; to the point

 Example - When the guess saw the rude attitude of the police, he said tersely: "Your attitude is unacceptable!"

6) Breach - to make a hole

Example - This must be a very strong person hitting the wall to make a big breach like this.

7) Riveted - Hold someone attention

Example - When I'm writing a story, I'm always trying to rivated my reader to my story.


8) Vigil - keep watching over something.

Example - When we are at the camp, someone should vigil the fire to keep it burning to keep the animals and dangerous away.

Camp Harmony - Answer 1 question

Camp Harmony is told from 1st person POV. What info might a 3rd POV include that Sone can't?

If the story told from a 3rd person point of view, meaning that the writer will be using 'he, she...' their probably will be more informations abou the camp and more about what Sone did in the camp. Because in the story that she wrote, she didn't write much about what she did and react to what happened in the camp. If the story was told from 3rd person, their likely to be more infomations on Sone and so we can know about her. We can also know more about how people felt about the camp. They might describe Sone's reaction and their reaction on the camp, and we can experience another person feeling about the camp, not just only Sone. The 3rd person might be an adult, so he/she would explain more why the Japanese-America were send to Camp Harmony and what happened in the world at that time.

Expository essay