1. Imploringly: to beg urgently (He imploringly begged for more candy.)
2. Ruefully: causing sorrow ( People in the poor villages are ruefully.)
3. Gallant: brave/ noble- minded ( My brother is a gallant person.)
4. hermit: person of seclusion ( Jimmy is a hermit when he wants to.)
5. Anoxic – lacking oxygen ( Anyone can be anoxic in the world. )
January 4, 2009 at 1:18 am
Hi Stephanie, I’m Danika. I’m a big fan of words and vocabulary, so when I stumbled upon this post, I just had to respond. I haven’t had time to read all of your posts, but I did notice that you have posted several other lists of interesting vocabulary words throughout your blog. I’m proud to say that thanks to you, I’ve learned a new word; the adjective “anoxic”! Anyways, as a fellow word fanatic, I have a couple of suggestions for improving this post. For example, I’m sorry to say that the word “ruefully” in sentence #2 is not used in the correct manner. As an adverb, its function is to describe a verb, like in the following sentence: “`I made a big mistake,’ he said ruefully” .
Anyways, good job with your post, and keep up the nice work!