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 * Attitudes of Self Importance**

__peremptory__: 1.putting an end to all debate or action. 2. not allowing contradiction or refusal; imparative. 3. having the nature of or expressing a command; urgent. 4. offensively self-assured; dictatorial.

//Examples//: "Get your hands out of my fries" (Speaking in tongues, p. 3). "I'm come to have lessons, I am" (Speaking in tongues, p. 2).

//Way to Remember:// When something is empty, it demands to be filled.

__bombastic:__ pompous-characterized by an exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance.

//Examples:// "If you go (metaphorically speaking) down the British scale, you've gone from Cockney to "mockney", you can expect a public tar and feathering;" (Speaking in Tongues, p.1) "Maybe they're looking at that big butt of yours. Man, I thought you were in training." (Speaking in Tongues p.2)

//Way to Remember:// When someone is bombastic, they think they are the bomb.

__resolute__: characterized by firmness, determination and often loyalty.

//Examples//: "I want to be a lady in a flower shop" (Speaking in tongues, p. 2) "I can't. I could have done it once; but now I can't go back to it....I have forgotten my language, and can only speak yours." (Speaking in Tongues p.2)

//Way to Remember:// When someone resolves to do something, they are resolute about finishing it.


 * Attitudes of Friendliness**

__Cordial__: 1. Of or relating to the heart. 2. Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate. 3a. Sincerely or deeply felt. 3b. Warmly and genially affable.

//Examples:// 1) On a lot of invitations, you see the words, "You are cordially invited to...." 2) "Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large." (Muhammad Ali Jinnah)

//Way to Remember:// In addition to being an adjective, cordial is also a type of liqueur: cordials were once thought to have an uplifting quality, like the second definition of the adjective cordial.

Example 1: The song "All the Small Things" by Blink 182 shows accommodating very well because it talks about how much he appreciates all the small things his girlfriend does. Example 2: "He gave her an accommodating smile to make her bad day feel much better." //How to memorize//: Hotel commercials usually talk about how accommodating their hotel is, trying to get you to think "Hey, if I stay here, maybe I'll have a better time."
 * __Accommodating:__** Helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation.

Example 1: "I can never change just what I feel, my face will never know what is not real" --the Red Hot Chili Peppers Example 2: "I broke up with him because he wasn't very confiding; he wouldn't tell me anything" //How to memorize//: Secrets are personal things, and another word for secret is CONFIDential...just remember the first six letters!
 * __Confiding:__** Willing to entrust in personal matters.

__Querulous__ - full of complaints, complaining.
 * Attitudes of Pain**

//Examples:// 1. Grandpa Simpson - always complaining about everything whether it be logical or not. [] 2. The song "Bed + Breakfast Man" by Madness. The singer talks about his old friend and roommate that did nothing but mooch off of everybody around him. Although the song may not sound like complaining, but the singer is indeed complaining the constant mooching his friend does without doing anything in return.

//way to remember it//: think of the old man that is always complaining about this generation. "Back in my day..."

__Melancholy__ - A state of sadness or depression.

//Examples:// 1. Her hearty voice, always on the verge of laughter, made the melancholy news sound somehow cheerful, but seeing how she had saddend Mr. Clutter, she turned to other matters. (In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, Pg. 35) 2. "I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general." (Sandra Bullock)

__Plaintive__ - expressive of suffering or woe.

//Examples://

__Mocking:__ 1.) to treat with ridecule 2.) to mimic or imitate
 * Attitudes of comedy**

Examples: 1.) In my short life, I've endured more than my share of mockery. I've been called, amoung other things, Fatso, Fatpants, Fatboy, Fatty Fatty Two-By-Four, Pig, Piggy, Oinker, King Chuck, El Tubbo, and ofcourse, as one would excpect of a heavy-set person with my name, Patty Fatty. (America is Ready to Laugh at me Again) 2.) As soon as the teacher walked in, the students began to imitate the way she scrunched her face when she talked.

Clue: Tina Fey on SNL (she mocks Sarah Palin)

__Uproarious:__ noisy confusion, extremely funny, causing people to laugh loudly Examples: As she tripped and fell on the stage, the crowd roared in a sea of laughter. [] When the siren roared, a commotion in the building ocurrred. []

clue: roar; a roar is loud and something uproarious is loud and causes people to laugh loudly

Satiric: trenchant with irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly

Examples: clue: when you think satiric, think sarcastic
 * 1) "the straw ship was dry, light, weight and well-bailed enough to break the earth's orbit, but inexplicably burst into flames when ignited with 3,000 gallons of rocket fuel" (Theonion.com, NASA Baffled by Failure of Straw Shuttle)
 * 2) "In 1969, fellow second-grader Leon Hoyt became the first person to make fun of Barack Obama's last name referring to his as "Buttock" Obama for the entire school year" (Theonion.com, Barack Obama First Black President)
 * Attitudes of submission and timidity**

__Groveling__: 1. To creep with face to the ground 2. To lie or to creep with body prostrate in token subservience or abasement 3. To give oneself over to what is base or unworthyExamples: 1) Joyce insists on her varied heritage because she fears and is ashamed of the singular black. Speaking in Tounges p.6 (#3 definition)2)There, in black in white, was the photograph I has sent to Mr. Shadows of myself in monster makeup! The Beast that I had to find...was me. Book: The Boy of a Thousand Faces p. 23 (#3 definition)//Way to remember//: The word grovel sounds like gravel and gravel is on the ground. So in order to find gravel creep to the ground. __Aghast__: 1. Struck with terror, amazment, horrow, or fearExamples: 1) "He says one thing but he means the another"-this is the essence of the fear campaign. Speaking in Tounges p.5 (fear)2) Mr Blake also gave me new stamps whenever they cam out, and sure enough tat morning he handed me a little booklet. "Wow" was all I could say when I saw the. Book: The Boy of a Thousand Faces p. 15 (amazement) //Way to remember//: A ghost can cause much terror and shock if you see one. Aghast sounds very similar to a ghost.

__Docile__: easily led, instructed or managed; tractable Examples: 1) "...And yet with amber hands she leads him, docile as a boy, a long appointed sands." (The Moon is Distant From the Sea, by Emily Dickinson) 2) "A braver person, perhaps, would have stayed firm, teaching her peers a useful lesson by example: not all lettered people need be by the same class nor speak identically. I went the other way. Partly out of cowardness and a constitutional eagerness to please..." (Speaking in Tongues, Zadie Smith) //Way to Remember//: In __The Sound of Music__ Julie Andrews sings a song about do, a deer, a female deer. If you look the word docile has the word do in it and deers are very easily led and managed because they are such timid and shy animals. Therefore if you think of do with the word docile it will help you rememeber.


 * Attitudes of apathy:**

__Stoic__: A person who remains calm and self controlled and appears to be indifferent to pleasure or pain. Examples: 1) pg 13 of Fatal Views "it's getting to ve a problem he said. Shes a problem. We have to dispose of the problem" this shows stoic because while he is explaining about disposing of his wife he really doesn't show any emotion and he is kind of indifferent about it. (shows in [L] language from LIDDS) 2) pg 4 Speaking in Tongues "But I haven't described Dream City. I'll try to. It is a place of many voices, where the unified singular self is an illusion." this is stoic because the writer is very matter of fact about explaining this and doesnt show any emotion throughout the sentences. (shows in [L] language from LIDDS) //Way to// //Remember:// When a person is stoic they stow their emotions away so that no one can see them.

__Monotonous__: Uttered or sounded in one unvarying tone. Examples: 1) pg 5 of Speaking in Tongues "Which brings us to the single voiced Obamanation crowd, They rage on in the blogs and on the rdaio waiting obsessivly for the mask to slip. They have a great fear of what they see as Obamas doubling ways. 'He says one thing but means another'- this is the essence of the fear campaign" this shows monotonous because the say how the obamanation crowd is single voiced. and and this is showed in the definition of monotonous by being being marked in sameness (this is shown in [D] diction in LIDDS) 2) pg 1 Speaking in Tongues "Recently my double voice has deserted me for a single one" this shows how her voice went from being two seperates tones to one monotonous voice. //Way to Remember:// Monotonous comes from the word monotone. The root of monotone is mono which means one and tone is a pitch.

__Hopelessness__: The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success. Examples: 1) pg 1 of the door "i am confronted by a problem which is incapable of solution (for this time even if he chose the righ door, there would be no food behind it) and that is what madness is, and things seeming different from what they are.2) "He has a blase attitude of cleaning the house unlike his sister." (yourdictionary.com) this is hoplessness because it shows how he feels hopeless because he dosnt know what solution to choose for his problem. it shows that either answer is wrong so he is hopeless in finding the right answer. (shows in [D] diction in LIDDS) 2) Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez "Even though Mina didn't want to go back to her old, ugly husband, she knew she'd lose her son if the marriage was dissolved, But once again she had no choice in the matter." this is hopelessness because there is no correct solution to this problem and she is stuck in the middle of a bad situation. She also has no say in what will happen with her life so she feels that is will never get better. (shows in [D] details in LIDDS) //Way to Remember:// When you've studying the night before a huge test and you can't remember anything. The point where you say there's no way i'll get a good grade tomorrow is the point of hopelessness because there's no hope for your grade.


 * Attitudes of Pleasure:**
 * Sprightly (adj.) -** animated, vivacious, or gay; lively.

1)It's the most amazing fabulous sensational gum in the whole world. ~Willy Wonka 2) And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. ~Daffodils, a poem by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)


 * Memory Hook:** A sprite is an imaginary creature, and they are the types that skip through fields. Therefore, when thinking of sprightly, think of animated or lively beings.

1) “Once upon a time….” 2) “One look at the enraptured audience was enough to persuade anyone that the speaker had charisma.” (yourdictionary.com)
 * Enraptured (v)** – to fill with great pleasure or delight


 * Memory Hook:** Rap gives delight to many people. Enrapture = delight.

1) Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead. Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed. Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go, Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out. Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low. Let them know The Wicked Witch is dead! ~ The Wizard Of Oz
 * Jubilant -** showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant.

2) “And when we were fixing to leave, and all those people were waving and hugging me- I caught my ten pound bass right there.” –Sam Walton


 * Attitudes of Cheifly Rational:

Explanatory: t**hat explains: serving or helping to explain**.** Examples: 1) "To find speed (V) in mi/hr, you need to divide distance by time and convert days into hours." (discovering geometry) 2) Dog: n. a domestic canid, bred in many varieties. (dictionary.com) Way to remember: explanatory explains things

1) "I cannot accept the fact that someone would destroy our villege, just because of our religious beliefs." (politics of the veil)**
 * Incredulous: showing lack of belief: unwilling to accept what is offered

Candid: **Frank or outspoken; honest Example: 1. "Honey, Ian said you could have one. Which do you like better?" My son and I were standing in my friend's son Ian's room. Ian had just generously shown Zach all his toys and then said that Zach could even keep one of his trucks. "Um actually," Zach said, "I don't really like either. They're both kind of ugly." "Zach!" I said, shocked. "What?" Zach said. "They kind of are. I wouldn't want to take a toy I don't like, so Ian should just keep them."

2. The candid section of pictures in a yearbook. They were taken without the people in them knowing, so the pictures show an honest, sincere version of what was happening at the school.

way to remember: you're on Candid Camera.** Attitudes of self-control Serious: showing or characterized by seep thought.  1) “All his life he had been confronted by situations which were incapable of being solved, and there was a deliberateness behind all this, behind this changing of the card (or door), because they would always wait till you learned to jump at the certain card (or door)-the one with the circle-and then they would change it on you.” (The Door) 2) “We feel that our voices are who we are, and that to have more than one, or to use different versions of a voice for different occasions, represents… the loss of our very souls.” (The Door) When I say serious, I think of a serial killer, who thinks elaborately and intensely about who they kill. So serial killer=deep thought=serious.

Nonchalant cool: without warmth or enthusiasm; not showing interest; casually indifferent.  1) “This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with its rounded vowels and consonants in more or less the right place-this is not the voice of my childhood.” (Speaking in Tongues) 2) “Both men have a strange reflexive quality, typical of the self-created man-we see in them whatever we want to see.” (Speaking in Tongues) I thought of Italy during WWI, they didn’t show any interest in the efforts of the war and didn’t take sides.  Gentle: kindly; amiable. Not severe, rough, or violent.  1) “As George Bernard Shaw delicately put in his preface to the play //Pygmalion//, ‘many thousands of men and women… have sloughed off their native dialects and acquired new tongues.’” (Speaking in Tongues) 2)  “ He crossed (carefully) the room, the thick carpet under him softly, and went toward the door carefully, which was glass and he could see himself in it, and which at his approach, opened to allow him to pass through… as he stepped off, the ground came slightly, to meet his foot.” Picture a deer and how it walks softly around; it is a gentle creature.