Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts

Saturday, October 23, 2010

100 most beautiful words in english

Ailurophile A cat-lover.
Assemblage A gathering.
Becoming Attractive.
Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks.
Brood To think alone.
Bucolic In a lovely rural setting.
Bungalow A small, cozy cottage.
Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye.
Comely Attractive.
Conflate To blend together.
Cynosure A focal point of admiration.
Dalliance A brief love affair.
Demesne Dominion, territory.
Demure Shy and reserved.
Denouement The resolution of a mystery.
Desuetude Disuse.
Desultory Slow, sluggish.
Diaphanous Filmy.
Dissemble Deceive.
Dulcet Sweet, sugary.
Ebullience Bubbling enthusiasm.
Effervescent Bubbly.
Efflorescence Flowering, blooming.
Elision Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.
Elixir A good potion.
Eloquence Beauty and persuasion in speech.
Embrocation Rubbing on a lotion.
Emollient A softener
Ephemeral Short-lived.
Epiphany A sudden revelation.
Erstwhile At one time, for a time.
Ethereal gaseous, invisible but detectable.
Evanescent Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
Evocative suggestive.
Fetching Pretty.
Felicity pleasantness.
Forbearance withholding response to provocation.
Fugacious fleeting.
Furtive shifty, sneaky.
Gambol To skip or leap about joyfully.
Glamour beauty.
Gossamer The finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk
Halcyon Happy, sunny, care-free.
Harbinger Messenger with news of the future.
Imbrication Overlapping and forming a regular pattern.
Imbroglio An altercation or complicated situation.
Imbue To infuse, instill.
Incipient Beginning, in an early stage.
Ineffable Unutterable, inexpressible.
Ingénue A naïve young woman.
Inglenook A cozy nook by the hearth.
Insouciance Blithe nonchalance.
Inure To become jaded.
Labyrinthine Twisting and turning.
Lagniappe A special kind of gift.
Lagoon A small gulf or inlet.
Languor Listlessness, inactivity.
Lassitude Weariness, listlessness.
Leisure Free time.
Lilt To move musically or lively.
Lissome Slender and graceful.
Lithe Slender and flexible.
Love Deep affection.
Mellifluous Sweet sounding.
Moiety One of two equal parts.
Mondegreen A slip of the ear.
Murmurous Murmuring.
Nemesis An unconquerable archenemy.
Offing The sea between the horizon and the offshore.
Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like its meaning.
Opulent Lush, luxuriant.
Palimpsest A manuscript written over earlier ones.
Panacea A solution for all problems
Panoply A complete set.
Pastiche An art work combining materials from various sources.
Penumbra A half-shadow.
Petrichor The smell of earth after rain.
Plethora A large quantity.
Propinquity An inclination.
Pyrrhic Successful with heavy losses.
Quintessential Mose essential.
Ratatouille A spicy French stew.
Ravel To knit or unknit.
Redolent fragrant.
Riparian By the bank of a stream.
Ripple A very small wave.
Scintilla A spark or very small thing.
Sempiternal Eternal.
Seraglio Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.
Serendipity Finding something nice while looking for something else.
Summery Light, delicate or warm and sunny.
Sumptuous Lush, luxurious.
Surreptitious Secretive, sneaky.
Susquehanna A river in Pennsylvania.
Sussurous Whispering, hissing.
Talisman A good luck charm.
Tintinnabulation Tinkling.
Umbrella Protection from sun or rain.
Untoward Unseemly, inappropriate.
Vestigial In trace amounts.
Wafture Waving.
Wherewithal The means.
Woebegone Sorrowful, downcast.

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Friday, October 22, 2010

A World Without You

Have you ever felt the pain lefted by people you love the most? Elena did. Her five years crush, James, flew to Paris and she haven't told her feelings yet. Now, her life wouldn't be the same again. She's still thinking about James when suddenly a car hit her.

CIIT! (suddenly, all became dark)

She lost her memory because of that terrible accident. She can only remembered her name, said the Doctor. So, Elena asked her Mum about how can she got into this kind of accident. Her Mum just told her that she was unconscious in the hospital for three weeks.

5 years later, Elena brought back into her usual life. She got a lot of friends, but her one and only best friend is just Amber. Different from Elena, Amber hated popular kids because of some reasons.

One day, there's a transferred student from Paris that would be at Elena's class. But, the things that made Elena really confused is the fact that she used to knew him--Joanna said so--but she couldn't remember anything. Then, she saw the transferred student. She got flashbacks in her mind. Flashbacks of her crying, left the airport, then she got hit by the car. She felt like she remembered something.

That transferred student's name is James. Elena felt familiar with someone named "James"

"Who are you?" Elena asked directly to James.
He smiled, "Are you joking?"

But, the problem is, she wasn't JOKING!

--to be continued--

This summary was a task from Sue, my native english teacher at school. First, I need to read the story of "World Without You" part 1 then made a summary of it. Even me still haven't know the continuation of this story.

After finish the summary, next week, we have to made the script of it. Then, we have to present the "Drama" form of the story. HEEEEEEEY I WANNA BE JAMES! #crazy

A Poem from U!

Saat cinta mengetuk pintumu, biarkanlah ia...
Dengan dahagamu, minumlah bersamanya..
Ia tak lelah, namun berbaringlah dengannya..
Karena.. Semuanya untukmu..
Melayaninya adalah kebaikanmu..
Menjaganya berarti menjagamu..
Dan bila ia menyakiti, terimalah itu sebagai pembersihan atas dengkimu..
Dan saat ia pergi, lepaskanlah..
Karena sesungguhnya, ia tak pernah meninggalkanmu..

(Novel U! by Donna Rosamayna)

weeey, seorang bewew bisa mellow juga ya ternyata #mengganggusuasana