Vocab.

Tangible: (Adj)

Definition: Capable of being touched

Source Sentence- At one point he had enrolled in the junior college in his hometown, but the course work he said seemed too abstract, too distant, with nothing real or tangible at stake, certainly not the stakes of a war.

The Context Clue Synonym tells me that with nothing real or tangible at stake, is the opposite of the definition Capable of being touched, or real.


Original Sentence: I know that becoming a probation officer is very tangible in my future.



Feigned: (Adj)


Definition: Pretended; sham; counterfeit, assumed fictitious, disguised


Source Sentence: The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference.


Context Clue: The context clue example shows me that through jumping from self pity to anger to irony to guilt that he is trying to disguise the indifferance emotions he is going through.


Original Sentence: I used to use feigned money back in the day to buy all my drugs when I was in my addiction.


Catharsis: (Noun)


Definition: Purging of the emotions or relieving of emotions, teensions, through certain kinds of art.


Sourse Sentence: Partly catharsis, partly communication, it was a way of grabbing people by the shirt and explaining exactly what happened to me, how I'd allowed myself to get dragged into a wrong war, all the mistakes i'd made, all the eriible things I had seen done.


Contect Clue: Through the context clue example tells me that grabbing people by the shirt and explaing exactly what happened to him was through his writting the book was a way for him to relase his emotions about the war he had been involved in.

To an Old Friend

Long-Term Goal: Stay Sober
Mid-Term Goal: Education-AA
Short-Term Goal: Graduate from Drug Court

March 10, 2011

Dear Angela, well it certainly has been awhile since we have last spoken with each other, I hope you and your daughter's are doing well. As for me I could never be better I have two years and nine months sober today and loving life. I never thought in a million years that I would make it this far but I am doing so much better than I was doing awhile ago when I was in my addiction. I graduated from drug court back in June of 2010 and thought that since I was done being watched 24/7 by my probation officer and walking on egg up until I graduated that I just might slip back into my old habits once again. Then I began to think about how far I have come in my life being sober and how easy it is lose everything that I have built up so far in a blink of an eye, and there is no way I am giving any of this up not for all the money in the world. I also still have been working towards my dream of becoming a probation officer and have been taking more classes so that I can transfer to a four year college as soon as possible, I have yet decided on where I will be going due to the fact of taking your advice and exploring all of my options. I just might be going to an out of state university but we will cross that road when it comes up. I try to keep myself busy everyday because I truly believe that idle hands are the devils playground, but I still take it one day at a time.... Well I hope to hear from you soon and thank you so much for all the advice you gave me when I was one of your students.


P.S. How is the chocolate addiction going??

~Starr~