Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Vocabulary

Stooge(n)- an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
"Was Ho Chi Minh a communnist stooge, or a nationalist savior, or both, or neither?" p. 40
The boys foolish actions made him look like a stooge.
I used my logic, i connected the word with an old show i used to watch, the 3 stooges.


Schizophrenia(n)- any of a group of psychotic disorders characterized by progressive deterioration of the personality, withdrawal from reality, hallucinations, delusions, social apathy, emotional instability, etc.
"It was a kind of schizophrenia." p. 44
The man kept talking to himself as if he was talking to an actual person, he probably had a case of schizophrenia.
I used my logic based on movies ive seen in the past.

Bewilderment(adj)- completely puzzled or confused; perplexed.
"The emotion went from outrage to terror to bewilderment to guilt to sorrow and then back again to outrage." p.46
The movie inception had many people in a state of bewilderment and awe. 
Example, found based on reading the other words that the story was used in.

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