Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Vocab 11


Metamorphosis - transfiguration: a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances.

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a giant cockroach.







Quotidian-occurring or returning every day; daily

One may say that school is a quotidian idea. Students are constantly subject to the lack of choice known as school. Many are marked for 13 years and are forced to complete their track, whether they need to or not.








Reparation- compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury

Compensation is communly used in the phrase, 'An act without compensation.' We, as the United States, have done many things throughout history that is so horrid and disfiguring that there is no redeemable compensation.

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