ClearView Prep's Top5! Vocab Daily

• 2012-01-24

  Free - Market Socialism? Advice for Obama on the State of the Union - ClearView Prep’s Top5! Daily Vocab

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  Americans work hard, but the global stage and interplay between economic forces and social forces have caused a disconnect in the family and the workplace. What kind of bold policies can Obama provide for the “change” that we are looking for? Can we have more economic freedom with more social structure? More competition with more support? Find out how in David Brook’s ‘Free-Market Socialism’ on NYT. com

   

   

  How to build great vocabulary skills? Practice, Practice, Practice.

   

   

  Why not kill two birds with one stone and actually read something interesting?

   

   

  Follow these instructions below to have amazing verbal skills.

   

   

  1 Read this article and find the five words below.

   

  2 Guess their meanings and write them down.

   

  3. Check your definitions below in the YouTube Video.

   

  4. Write in a journal a synonym and make an awesome sentence of your own.

   

   

  Let’s do it!

   

   

  Vocab List:

   

  1. marred

   

  2. opiate

   

  3. ethos

   

  4. micron

   

  5. champion

  
  

  Want to learn more about David Brooks? Check out his newest book: 

  

  The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement(Kindle Edition)

  Music:  The One That Got Away - Katy Perry

  

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• 2012-01-19

  Creative Vocab: Sundry

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  sundry (adj.) [SUN-dree]:

  1. manifold; diverse and miscellaneous
  2. used in the idiom “all and sundry”, which means “each and everything”

  1. “Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile…

  Source: creativevocab

• 2012-01-18

  Creative Vocab: Desultory

  creativevocab:

  desultory (adj.): aimless and unmethodical

  “He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.”…

  Source: creativevocab

• 2012-01-15

  Stephen Colbert for President? - ClearView Prep’s Top5! Daily Vocab Words

  

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  America’s upset, fed up, out of work, so who do they run to? Stephen Colbert. We as a nation prefer to get our news from “The Report” than official sources like Fox News, CNN, etc. He’s on TV, Running for President, a Husband, etc… bu how many Colberts are there?

  
  

  
  
  
  

  How to build great vocabulary skills? Practice, Practice, Practice.

  Why not kill two birds with one stone and actually read something interesting?

  Follow these instructions below to have amazing verbal skills.

  1 Read this article and find the five words below.

  2 Guess their meanings and write them down.

  3 Check your definitions in the video below! (But don’t do it now!)

  4 Write in a journal a synonym and make an awesome sentence of your own.

  Let’s do it!

  Vocab List:

  1. deadpan

  2. jettisoned

  3. guise

  4. unmussable

  5. fatuous

  
  

  Want to read more about Stephen Colbert? Check out his:

  I Am America (And So Can You!)

  
  

  Music From: 

  Torches - Foster The People
  

  Source: NYT.com