English 4: IR Novels and vocabulary for 3/16 quiz

This week you should make it 1/3-1/2 of the way through your books which means all of you will be writing me the first essay this week.

Vocabulary for the March 16 quiz

• Impertinent: intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil
• Incognito: having one's identity concealed, as under an assumed name, especially to avoid notice
• Jealousy: resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself
• Jobing: doing the best one can with the good and the bad that life throws down (references the story of the Judeo-Christian Job)
• Jovial: endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship
• Karma: the sum of a person’s behavior and intentions will return to him or her and help determine the quality of the next life 
• Kind: to show compassion toward another for no expectation of repayment
• Kitsch: something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste
• Laconic: using few words; expressing much in few words