English 4: Common Core Essay (& Vocabulary List)

In-class essay tied to Task 2 or Task 3 in the Common Core booklet

• Family: people who generally grow up in the same household and support each other emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and (sometimes) financially.
• Feckless: having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy
• Fiasco: a complete and ignominious failure
• Finagle: to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person out of)
• Fluid Intelligence: the ability to see connections or relationships despite a lack of training 
• Gauche: lacking social grace, sensitivity, acuteness; awkward; crud; tactless
• Gregarious: fond of the company of others; sociable
• Gription: when grip gives traction
• Halcyon: calm; peaceful; tranquil