Sentence #23When positioned in contrast to the erudite Ravenclaws students, audacious and intrepid Gryffindor students, and the iconoclastic Slytherin students, Hufflepuff students seemed at most credulous in the gradation of student houses at Hogwarts. They were castigated for their cowardice but never appreciated for having such epicures in their midst such as the legendary Hufflepuff ghost, the Fat Friar. While no one disagreed that Hufflepuff's argument in terms of bravery was quiescent when compared to Gryffindor, the argument about Hufflepuff students' desultory interests was attenuated and deemed as precipitate when people actually studied the genius of founder, Helga Hufflepuff. Helga and other Hufflepuff students' seemingly reticent nature was, in fact, a dilatory measure in order to display humility and kindness to other students. When amalgamated with Hufflepuff students' tough and honest work-ethic, people should begin to see the honor that being a Hufflepuff carries.

erudite: learned; scholarly; bookishaudacious: fearless and daringintrepid: fearless; resolutely courageousiconoclast: one who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutionscredulous: too trusting; gulliblegradation: process occurring by regular degrees or stages; variation in colorcastigate: to punish or criticize harshlyepicure: person with refined taste in food and winequiescent: motionlessdesultory: jumping from one thing to another; disconnectedattenuate: to reduce in force or degree; weakenprecipitate: to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberationdilatory: intended to delayamalgamate: to combine; to mix togetherPosted byZahraat4:28 PM3 comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #22Nobody acted circumspect or reticent when presented with Mrs. Weasley's cooking. On the contrary, they would act querulous and lack deference if they were not the first in line to try her delicious food. Even though waiting in line meant forestalling the scrumptious concoctions, those waiting in line husbanded their energy so they may later propitiate their appetite. When the food reached their mouth, all the recipients' gastronomical cavities were very plastic which enervated all other senses except the sense of taste. Listless and melancholy when all the food had disappeared, all guests at the Weasley kitchen glibly recited numerous elegies and dirges remembering the food while it lasted. But how was such a beautiful meal to be reincarnated? All members of the table, even dilettantes such as Hermione's cat Crookshanks, partook in a machination to encourage Mrs. Weasley to cook more...muahahaha.

circumspect: cautious; aware of potential consequencesreticent: silent; reservedquerulous: inclined to complain; irritabledeference: respect; courtesyforestall: to prevent or delay; anticipatehusband: to manage economically; to use sparinglypropitiate: to conciliate; to appeaseplastic: able to be molded, altered or bentenervate: to reduce in strengthlistless: lacking energy and enthusiasmglib: fluent in an insincere manner; offhand; casualelegy: a sorrowful poem or speechdirge: a funeral hymn or mournful speechdilettante: someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topicmachination: plot or schemePosted byZahraat3:34 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #21Charlie Weasley and Hagrid both had an obstinate panache about them: they loved dragons. Not only did they not believe that dragons' molting was the most noisome smell in the world (as do most individuals), but they also thought it a euphony when dragons cried in a surly crescendo. Living with such convoluted creatures developed a sense of obdurate confidence and plebeian manners in these gentlemen, who mitigated the fears of novice dragon tenders by convincing them that dragons were not the typical misanthropes that people thought them to be. While most people consider dragons' mere presence to be an opprobrium, Charlie and Hagrid's unconditional love for these creatures gradually rarefied most peoples' intolerance. At least in Romania where Charlie lives, whenever a dragon is insulted in public, it has now become an exigent feature of society to respond with the neologism:"Dragons are hawt, and you're not...burrrrn".

obstinate: stubborn; unyieldingpanache: flamboyance or dash in style and action; vervemolt: to shed hair, skin, or an outer layer periodicallynoisome: stinking; putridsurly: rude and bad-temperedcrescendo: steadily increasing in volume or forceeuphony: pleasant, harmonious soundconvoluted: intricate and complicatedobdurate: hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasionplebeian: crude or coarse; characteristic of commonersmitigate: to soften; to lessenneophyte: novice; beginnermisanthrope: a person who dislikes othersopprobrium: public disgracerarefy: to make thinner or sparserexigent: urgent; requiring immediate actionneologism: new word or expressionPosted byZahraat2:39 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #20Rita Skeeter's journalistic chicanery was hardly estimable in the eyes of educated Daily Prophet readers. In fact, most of these readers repudiated her work, believing her intentions to be inimical and her work as inchoate garbage. By eulogizing certain individuals such as Harry Potter and, in fact overpraising them through her panegyric, Rita obviated the need for others' criticism: she was destroying her own career in the long-run. Rita attempted to aggrandize her own self, garnering in her address book the names of numerous celebrities and famous people, but in reality she occluded and desiccated from her own life the potential of probity and well-deserved, meaningful work. When eventually faced with a beetle-licious life, Rita found herself in such an impasse that she had no choice but to change her bombastic ways.

chicanery: deception by means of craft or guileestimable: admirablerepudiate: to reject the validity ofinimical: hostile; unfriendlyinchoate: not fully formed; disorganizedeulogy: speech in praise of someonepanegyric: elaborate praise; formal hymn of praiseobviate: to prevent; to make unnecessaryaggrandize: to increase in power, influence, and reputationgarner: to gather and storeocclude: to stop up; prevent the passage ofdesiccate: to dry out thoroughlyprobity: complete honesty and integrityimpasse: blocked path; dilemma with no solutionbombastic: pompous in speech and mannerPosted byZahraat2:26 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #19Harry failed at learning how to control his mind which his enemy filled with his evil mirth and malediction. Harry lumbered to Snape's office, overwrought at his inability to combat these negative thoughts through Snape's lessons. Snape, well-meaning at heart but slimy in person, attempted to foment Harry's urgency but tired him out out even more, leaving Harry in a state of utter lassitude. Angered at Snape's inability to placate Harry's concerns, Harry deemed Occlumency lessons onerous and a waste of time and he jettisoned them for good.

mirth: frivolity; gaiety; laughtermalediction: a curse; a wish of evil upon anotherlumber: to move slowly and awkwardlyoverwrought: agitated; overdonefoment: to arouse or incitelassitude: a state of diminished energyplacate: to soothe or pacifyonerous: troublesome and oppressive; burdensomejettison: to discard; to get rid of as unnecessary or encumberingPosted byZahraat2:19 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #18Even while the prodigal Dudley nettles Harry with his nominally funny jokes and attacks, Harry generally acts phlegmatic and perfunctory, pretending to study for Potions. He responds to his cousin in a politic manner by prevaricating that nothing his cousin does will ever seriously get to him.

prodigal: lavish or wastefulnettle: to irritatenominal: existing in name only; negligiblephlegmatic: calm and unemotional in temperamentperfunctory: done in a routine way; indifferentpolitic (adj): shrewd and practical in managing or dealing with things; diplomaticprevaricate: to lie or deviate from the truthPosted byZahraat2:13 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #17At the end of their journey, Harry and Voldemort had both become restive to meet their ostensible fate. Each devised a strategem in his mind believing in its sublime nature to overcome the other. Little did each of them know that they were beginning to show taciturn aloofness from their friends due to the stress involved in being the victor. Their emotional stability and receptiveness to their peers had become opaque, and when anyone wanted to come close, sometimes they would respond with tirades. While the novels show Harry as a paragon of goodness and heroism and highlight Voldemort's salient evilness, it is an irony how similar these two seemingly divergent personalities really are.

restive: impatient, uneasy, or restlessostensible: apparentstratagem: trick designed to deceive an enemysublime: lofty or grandtaciturn: silent; not talkativeopaque: impossible to see through; preventing the passage of lighttirade: long, harsh speech or verbal attacksalient: prominent; of notable significanceparagon: model of excellence and perfectionPosted byZahraat2:03 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #16Already an international magnate in the Quidditch world, Viktor Krum displayed pithiness and propriety when dealing with teammates, opponents and teachers at Hogwarts. However, Krum was not as passionate of a pedant or student so he was known back at Durmstrang Institute to malinger from his classes by flying in the rustic hills behind his school. When asked by his teachers where he was, Krum chuckled and equivocated with his love for studying about the history of brooms.

magnate: powerful or influential personpithy (adj): profound or substantial yet concise, succinct and to the pointpropriety: the quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customspedant: someone who shows off learningmalinger: to evade responsibility by pretending to be illrustic: ruralequivocate: to use expressions of double meaning in order to misleadPosted byZahraat1:54 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #15Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, a group of keenly libertine students and chums, exchanged furtive glances as they used the Marauder's Map to escape the banal castle during lectures. They knew nobody in the group was perfidious enough to use their loquaciousness to reveal the latent workings of the map. For that reason, the Marauder's Map remains until today an impervious creation. For the rest of us Muggles and non-groupies, it is a hapless thing that we cannot utilize its wonders.

keen: having a sharp edge; intellectually sharp; perceptivelibertine: a free thinker, usually used disparagingly; one without moral restraintfurtive: secret, stealthyperfidious: willing to betray one's trustloquacious: talkativelatent: potential that is not readily apparentimpervious: impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affectedhapless: unfortunate; having bad luckPosted byZahraat1:26 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #14Dobby the house elf made the egregious mistake of trying to keep Harry from going to Hogwarts in his second year. But since then, he's been obsequious to Harry, doing everything possible to serve him. Dobby's dismal living conditions before Harry freed him inspired Hermione's S.P.E.W. (Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare) campaign. However, her exacting demands for 2 sickles for membership from every student wasn't very cogent-people payed mostly to shut her up, not because they believed in the cause.

obsequious: characterized by servile complaisance; obedient.tendentious: having a definite tendency, bias or purpose.egregious: extraordinary in a bad way.exacting: demanding, strict; not easily satisfiedcogent: having power to compel convictionPosted byFarhanaat2:20 AMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestWednesday, May 11, 2011Sentence #13Although Snape showed obvious antipathy towards Harry, Hermione just wouldn't believe he was trying to kill the Boy Who Lived. She thought the evidence against Snape was meretricious and didn't corroborate with Dumbledore's view of him. Hermione wanted an inquest into his true motives and thought Ron and Harry were being ingenuous when they refused to entertain Snape's loyalty to the Order.

inquest: investigation, inquirymeretricious: falsely attractive, gaudycorroborate: to support with evidenceantipathy: extreme dislike, animosityingenuous: showing innocence or childlike simplicityPosted byFarhanaat9:34 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestWednesday, May 4, 2011Sentence #12An immaculate young lady at the time, Moaning Myrtle died while still a student at Hogwarts at the hands of Tom Riddle. With few accepting her seemingly incredulous claims that it was indeed brilliant Tom Riddle who killed her, the shiftless Myrtle resigned to her apropros position of iring the attendees of the boys' bathroom with her insipid sarcasm and moodiness.

immaculate: pure, faultlessincredulous: skeptical; unwilling to believeshiftless: lacking resourcefulness or lacking in ambitionapropos: appropriate to the situation; aptire: to angerinsipid: without taste or flavorPosted byZahraat10:58 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestMonday, April 25, 2011Sentence #11Buckbeak will always be remembered as a halcyon creature who showed forbearance even while Draco Malfoy hectored her. Malfoy's ignominious hubris during class displays the need for mandatory etiquette classes for Slytherin students to avoid such future gaucherie.

halcyon: calm and peacefulforbearance: patience; willingness to waithector: to bullyignominious: shameful; dishonorable; undignified; disgracefulhubris: arrogant pridegaucherie: socially awkward, tactless behaviorPosted byZahraat10:32 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSaturday, April 23, 2011Sentence #10Draco Malfoy mostly left the pugilism to his cronies Crabbe and Goyle. He preferred to make invidious remarks against people like the Weasleys who he liked to abase for being much poorer than him. While his comments occasionally stung, the Weasleys had the satisfaction of knowing that they were much richer in love, friends, and family than a puerile ingrate like Malfoy would ever be.

pugilism: fighting, sparring, boxinginvidious: envious, obnoxious, or offensive; likely to promote ill-willabase: to disgrace, to humble, demean, humiliatepuerile: childish, immature, sillyingrate: ungrateful personPosted byFarhanaat10:54 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestThursday, April 21, 2011Sentence #9Fleur didn't think Mrs. Weasley was officious in planning her and Bill's wedding. The phalanx of things to do seemed to accrete daily and would have left an acidulous taste in the pit of Fleur's stomach if her mother-in-law-to-be wasn't there to help make sure no one's contributing energies lay fallow and wasted.

officious: too helpful, meddlesomephalanx: a compact or close-knit body of people, animals, or thingsaccrete: to grow in size, to increase in amountacidulous: sour in taste or mannerfallow: dormant, unusedPosted byFarhanaat12:32 AMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestWednesday, April 20, 2011Sentence #8As the first year students sportively paraded into Honeydukes, they did not notice the Spartan and stolid cashier warning them of the specious Explosive Tarts. The tarts were so soporific that they caused the students to remain in a state of torpor until Hagrid called them.

sportive: frolicsome, playfulstolid: unemotional, lacking sensitivityspecious: deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallaciousSpartan: highly self-disciplined; frugal; austeresoporific: causing sleep or lethargytorpor: extreme mental and physical sluggishnessPosted byZahraat11:58 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestTuesday, April 19, 2011Sentence #7At their acme during O.W.L. exams, the students' stress levels were further amalgamated with fears of Death Eaters on the run. As the students sank into a greater emotional abyss, they realized these aberrations could only be alleviated or abated with the anodyne of Hagrid's homemade treacle fudge.

acme: highest point, summit, the highest level or degree attainableamalgamate: to combine, to mix togetheranodyne: something that calms or soothes painaberration: deviation from the normabate: to reduce in amount, degree or severityalleviate: to make more bearableabyss: an extremely deep holePosted byZahraat12:57 AM2 comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #6Argus Filch lugubriously accepted that he wouldn't be able to hang Fred and George up by their thumbs for filching the confiscated items from the coffer in his office. As much as he tried to ingratiate himself to Dumbledore to bend the rules, the headmaster was intractable in his decision and made rejoinders about such things as 'human rights' and the like.

lugubrious: sorrowful, mournful, dismalcoffer: strongbox, large chest for moneyingratiate: to gain favor with another by deliberate effort, to please somebody so as to gain an advantageintractable: not easily managed or manipulated, stubborn, unrulyrejoinder: response, retort, ripostePosted byFarhanaat12:06 AMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSunday, April 17, 2011Sentence #5As Professor Cuthbert Binns waffled throughout his arcane history lectures, he hardly noticed the lack of plaudit from his second-year students. Hermione Granger was the only vivacious student among the otherwise torpid class who considered Binns' accounts to be yarns full of gems, each word of which she scribbled frugally with her blue ink quill.

waffle: to talk vaguely and without much resultarcane: concerning obscure knowledgeplaudit: praise, approvalvivacious: lively; high spiritedyarn: long entertaining storytorpid: sleeping; sluggish; lethargic; dormantfrugal: careful; economicalPosted byZahraat9:26 PMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #4Using mendacity, Crabbe and Goyle always managed to pass their final exams, innocuous to none but themselves, by bilking off of Draco Malfoy's exam. Thankfully Professor Snape caught them and excoriated them. However, that did not last too long as Lucius Malfoy exculpated them by bribing Snape. Slytherin's internal workings remain a mystery to us all...

mendacity: dishonestyinnocuously: causing no harmbilke: cheatexcoriate: severe criticism/self-righteously correctingexculpate: to set free from blame/to clear from a charge of guiltPosted byFarhanaat3:10 AMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #3Professor McGonagall's polemic against unruly students often leaves them so contrite that it makes them ill enough to seek help from Madam Pomfrey to make them salubrious again. However, while McGonagall may come off as a martinet, she can also be surprisingly blithe at times.

polemic: controversy, argument, verbal attack, denunciation, refutation.contrite: deeply sorrowful, repentant for a wrongsalubrious: healthful, curativemartinet: strict disciplinarian, one who rigidly follows rulesblithe: joyful, cheerful, or w/o appropriate thought, carefreePosted byFarhanaat3:10 AMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #2Neville Longbottom, an extremely timorous individual, gains temerity mercurially upon rediscovering his parents' courageous past; no longer obsequious, Neville changes into a percipient character who offers moral support for Dumbledore's army.

timorous: afraidtemerity: boldness/brashness/intrepidnessmercurial/ly: quick/changeable in characater/fleetingobsequious: seeking to please/falsely flattering (others)percipient: insightfulPosted byFarhanaat3:08 AMNo comments:Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestSentence #1I postulate that Dumbledore is indeed a sagacious and rather hoary man. His perspicacity is unequivocal. He never upbraids corybantic students and doesn't show umbrage at Professor Umbridge, though she deserves it. He also never vacillates in his morals, nor is he prone to solecisms- he is a vestige of classier times.

postulate: to claim the existence of truth ofsagacious: shrewd, wisehoary: very oldperspicacity: (see sagacious)unequivocal: absolute, certaincorybantic: frenetic, frenziedumbrage: offense, resentmentvacillate: to be indecisive, or to physically swaysolecism: grammatical mistake, blunder in speech