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Warm-up:
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

True to her altruistic beliefs, Natalie ------- the ------- attitude of her colleague that a client represented nothing more than a source of income and an opportunity for advancing one’s professional reputation.

A.     applauded . . conscientious  B.     condoned . . aggressive

C.     lamented . . mercenary  D.     adopted . . egotistical

E.     belittled . . magnanimous

Classwork:  Quiz on Emerson, go over Emerson rhetoric and style questions (special attention to #4, 6, 9, and 10), designing ideal education reforms according to or that differ from Emerson (will finish and present tomorrow)

Homework:  Study Emerson/Prose vocabulary words.  Suggestions for studying include looking up the words in the context of the essay, looking up definitions, looking for synonyms or antonyms among the assigned words, practice using them in sentences, etc.

Moribund (90)

Parse (92)

Soporific (93)

Reductive (97)

Delineated (99)

Trifling (102)

Ardent (105)

Automaton (106)

Indelible (90)	Affinity (90)	Percolate (90)	Pieties (92)	Moribund (90)
Sophomoric (92)	Rumination (92)	Fervor (90) /Fervent (99)	Paradigm (92)	Parse (92)
Felicitously (92)	Perennially (92)	Affably (92)	Fealty (96)	Soporific (93)
Canonical (95)	Cede (96)	Ambiguity (97/8)	Banal (97)	Reductive (97)
Cantankerous (97)	Plausible (98)	Transmuting (99)	Empathy (99)	Delineated (99)
Thwarting (102)	Whimsies (102)	Anarchy (102)	Imperturbable (102)	Trifling (102)
Procured (103)	Iconoclast (103)	Incur (104)	Indolence (104)	Ardent (105)
Taciturnity (107)	Correlative (105)	Rogue (106)	Martinet (106)	Automaton (106)