Vocabulary+from+ASOWYA+2015


 * Vocab****ulary is below. You only need to focus on the words for your period class. Note that the words have context and page number, but not definitions. **


 * Vocabulary Students Chose from //A Sense of Where You Are// **


 * __Period 1 __**

I looked down from the boy's number down to the ** MIMEOGRAPHED ** sheet in my hand. (6)

 It hardly seems possible, but at the moment this scandalous **MILIEU** includes William warren Bradley, who is the best amateur or professional, in the history of sport. (12)

 Bradley's repeatedly superior performance in these games **ERADICATED** all traces of the notion that he merely a **PAROCHIAL** accident and would have been just another player if he had gone to a big basketball school. (16)

 An average of twenty points in basketball is comparable to baseball's **CRITERION** for outstanding pitchers, whose immortality seems to be predicted on their winning twenty games a year. (17)
 * Taciturnity ** pg. 3, He has a **taciturnity** celebrated in his circle, and he can watch, say, a Princeton halfback go ninety-eight yards for a touchdown without even faintly showing on the surface the excitement he feels within him.

 **Bemused** pg44, He has an ambiguous, **bemused** manner that makes people wonder on occasion whether he is earnest or just kidding.

 **Tympanic** pg74, With a series of **tympanic** thumps, he would dribble out of the room, across the lobby and the street, and along the sidewalk, under the columnar palms.

 **Beguiling** pg82, He does it all with a floating economy of motion and a **beguiling** offhandedness that appeal to the imagination.
 * Repertory **, pg18 "he is perfectly coordinated, and he is unbelievably accurate at every shot in the basketball **repertory**."

 **Miscellaneously**, pg19 "a group of Princeton boys shooting basketballs **miscellaneously** in preparation for still another game hardly promised to be a high point of the evening, but Bradley’s, who's routine in the warmup time is a gradual crescendo of activity, is more interesting to watch before a game than most players are in play."

 **Eclecticism**, pg23 "Bradley’s graceful hook shot is a masterpiece of **eclecticism**."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Discomfited **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, p. 19 - “He stopped, looking **discomfited**, and seemed to be making an adjustment in his mind.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Leaden **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, p. 25 - “They had a **leaden** attitude almost from the beginning.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Pejorative **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, p. 41 - “He approximates what some undergraduates call a straight arrow—a semi-**pejorative** term for unfortunates who have no talent for vice.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Supposition **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (53) - Many coaches, on the reasonable **supposition** that Bradley cannot beat their teams alone, concentrate on choking off the four other Princeton players.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Seldom **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (90) - When Bradley had an off-night, as he sometimes did, it **seldom** just descended on him at random.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Axiomatic **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (132) - They got fifty-six rebounds to Princeton's thirty-four, and it is almost **axiomatic** that a team which gets that many more rebounds than will win
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Jaundiced **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (143) - His roommates, who fought off the locusts that actually came to the campus, began to feel a little jaundiced about the invasions of society.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Glut **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (6) - My own feeling for basketball had faded almost to nothing over the years because players became taller and more powerful, and scores increased until it was rare when a professional team, hit less than a hundred points, win or lose; it impressed me as a **glut** of scoring, with few patters of attack and almost no defense anymore.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Parse **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (28) - hence, it is usually quite easy to **parse** a basketball team.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Preponderance **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (67) - Crystal City, which was once an active river port, now has a population of about four thousand, with a **preponderance** of Italians, Greeks, French, and Slavs, and a considerable proportion of blacks.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Dynamism **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (71) - If Mr. Bradley is a contemplative man with "an enlightened disinterest," in his sons words regard to athletic pinnacles, Mrs. Bradley is an outgoing and amiably competitive woman of immense **dynamism**.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Astigmatism **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (118) - Unable to stand it any longer, he walked quickly out onto the floor, bent slightly forward, spend about two seconds looking for the lens, pointed at it, and held the point until the poor fellow with **astigmatism** crawled over to it and picked it up.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">CUMULUS **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - heap or accumulation **MULTIRADIAL** - arranged like rays

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> "A great player will see even more alternatives and will make more choices, and this **MULTIRADIAL** way of looking at things can carry over into his life." (49)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **TATTERDEMALION** - A person in tattered clothing; a shabby person

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> "Now and then, a few **TATTERDEMALIONS** from West Palm Beach came to the playground, and he befriended them eagerly." (74)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Discernible** p. 1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I know that he greatly admires excellence in athletes, and that he would regularly become quite caught up in the evolution of a Princeton team's season, its hopes for a championship, and the kind of performance an individual might be sustaining; but these things were **discernible** only in highly indirect ways.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Disconcerted ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, p. 51 **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> “When Bradley went out on his own, he sometimes encountered attitudes that disconcerted him.”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **thoroughgoing, monokinetic**, p. 71

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> “It takes a team to go anywhere at all in the national championships, and during the next two weeks Princeton’s other basketball players became a thoroughgoing, monokinetic team.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“Bill Bradley is what college students nowadays call a superstar, and the thing that distinguishes him from other such **paragons** is not so much that he has happened into the Ivy League as that he is a superstar at all.” pg.14

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> “Just before Christmas, he was elected a Rhodes Scholar. This has absolutely **nonplussed** the New York Knickerbockers, who for some time had been suffering delusions of invincibility, postdated to the autumn of 1965, when, they assumed, Bradley would join their team.” pg.16-17

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> “Many basketball players, outstanding ones included, have a tendency to be rather tastelessly **rococo** in their style, and Bradley stands out in contrast to them because he adorns nothing that he does.” pg.95

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> “All of that was true enough, but the Princeton players knew who belonged there and the effect of such **exhortations** was only enough to get them about halfway up for the game.” pg.155

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Exasperates**- Ch. 2 page 23

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Incongruous**- Ch. 3 page 71

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Introspective**- Ch. 2 page 30

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1. **Prestidigitation** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“Moreover, it attracted exhibitionists who seemed to be more intent on amazing a crowd with aimless **prestidigitation** than with advancing their team by giving a sound performance.” P. 9 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">2. **Milieu** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“It hardly seems possible, but at the moment this scandalous **milieu** includes William Warren Bradley, who is the best amateur basketball player in the United States and among the better players, amateur or professional, in the history of the sport." P. 13 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3. **Nonplussed** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“This has absolutely **nonplussed** the New York Knickerbockers, who for some time had been suffering delusions of invincibility, postdated to the autumn of 1965, when, they assumed, Bradley would join their team.” P. 16 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">4. **Enervating** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“The people there were worn out, because most of them were emotionally committed to either Villanova or Temple—two local teams that had just been involved in **enervating** battles with Providence and Connecticut, respectively, scrambling for a chance at the rest of the country.” P.21 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">5. **Aggrandizement** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“But this would merely be personal **aggrandizement**, done at the expense of the relative balance of his own team and causing unnecessary embarrassment to the opposition, for it would only happen against an opponent that was heavily outmatched anyway.” P. 50
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Period 2 __**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">parochial **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">-Gradually, during his sophomore and junior years, Bradley’s repeatedly superior performances in these games eradicated all traces of the notion that he was merely a **parochial** accident and would have been just another player if he had gone to a big basketball school.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">eyelets **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- What is most interesting, though, is that he concentrates his attention on one of the tiny steel **eyelets** that are welded under the rim of the basket to hold the net to the hoop—on the center eyelet, of course—before he lets fly.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">cumulus **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Actually, the United States basketball squad encountered no real competition at the Olympics, despite all sorts of rumbling **cumulus** beforehand to the effect that some of the other teams, notably Russia’s, were made up of men who had been playing together for years and were now possibly good enough to defeat an American Olympic basketball team for the first time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ministerial **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, pg. 40: If he seems ministerial, that is because he is.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **doleful**, pg.61: "I don't have that much natural ability," he said, and went on to tell a **doleful** tale about how his legs lacked spring, how he was judged among the worst of the Olympic candidates in ability to get high off the floor, and so on, until he had nearly convinced me that he was a motor moron.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **coleopteran**, pg.62: Macauley swears that Cousy's eyelids, lowered as far as they would go, failed to cover his **coleopteran** eyes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lackadaisically **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (119): If we could play that **lackadaisically** and lethargically and still beat a good team, then why couldn't we go somewhere?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Plodding **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (118): As it drew to an end, the game was both **plodding** and so close that it was clearly going to be a wretched way for either team to end its season- a misery which fell upon Penn State, 60-58.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Pre-eminence **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (115): Modern basketball- the age of the jump shot, of fifty-percent shooting, and of frequent three-figure scoring began at about the same time that the NCAA tournament assumed its **pre-eminence**.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Monokinetic **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (101): It takes a team to go anywhere at all in the national championships, and during the next two weeks Princeton's other basketball players became a thoroughgoing, **monokinetic** team.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Mirth **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (99): At any rate, they were clutching themselves as if to keep from falling off their seats while having spasms of **mirth** and disbelief.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lochinvar **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, p. 52 - "He refuses on principle to say that Bradley is the best basketball player he has ever coached, and he is also careful not to echo the general feeling that Bradley is the most exemplary youth since **Lochinvar**."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Pejorative **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, p. 41 - “He approximates what some undergraduates call a straight arrow—a semi-**pejorative** term for unfortunates who have no talent for vice.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Discomfit **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (27) verb- (27) He stopped, looking discomfited, and seemed to be making an adjustment in his eyes. (meaning: to confuse and deject/ frustrate the plant of)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Gantry **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (26) noun With his left foot back about eighteen inches - "wherever it feels comfortable," he says- he shoots with a deep-bending rhythm of knees and arms, one-handed, his left foot acting like a kind of gantry for the ball until the moment of release.(meaning: framework; bridge- like overhead structure
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Supposition **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> 53: Many coaches, on the reasonable **supposition** that Bradley cannot bear there teams alone, concentrate on choking off the four other Princeton players, but Bradley is good enough to rise to such occasions, as he did when he scored forty-six against Texas, making every known shot, including an eighteen-foot running hook.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Seldom** 90: When Bradley had an off-night, as he sometimes did, it **seldom** just descended on him at random.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Dismal** 90: Princeton's first 1965 Ivy League game, for example, was played on <span class="aqj" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">January 8 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> against Yale at Princeton, and Bradley went into it feeling **dismal** in several ways.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Mirth** 99: at any rate, they were clutching themselves as if to keep from falling off their seats while having spasms of **mirth** and disbelief.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> **Locusts** 143: His roommates, who fought off the locusts that actually came to the campus, began to feel a little jaundiced about the invasions of society. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I looked down from the boy's number down to the **MIMEOGRAPHED** sheet in my hand. (6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Bradley's repeatedly superior performance in these games eradicated all traces of the notion that he merely a **PAROCHIAL** accident and would have been just another player if he had gone to a big basketball school. (16)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Forlornly **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (36) - "All we do is play basketball," one of them told him forlornly.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Pejorative **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (41) - He approximates what some undergraduates call a straight arrow--a semi-pejorative term for unfortunates who have no talent for vice.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Stalwarts **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (72) - The other boys in the churchyard would announce their names one by one, all of them claiming to be stalwarts of the University of Missouri or some other midwestern school.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Tatterdemalions **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (74) - Now and then, a few tatterdemalions from West Palm Beach came to the playground, and he befriended them eagerly.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">osmotic **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (23) - adj. related to the properties of osmosis.  ”This is what Bradley has done, but one of the things that set him apart from nearly everyone else is that the process has been conscious rather than osmotic.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">eclecticism **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (23)- n. a theory or practice that combines methods from different sources. “Bradley’s graceful hook shot is a masterpiece of eclecticism.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">gantry **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> (26)- n. a bridgelike overhead structure with a platform supporting equipment such as  a crane, railroad signals, lights, or cameras. “With his left foot back about eighteen inches – ‘wherever it feels comfortable,’ he says- he shoots with a deep-bending rhythm of knees and arms, one-handed, his left foot acting like a kind of gantry for the ball until the moment of release.”


 * Incapacitate **

Verb

To prevent from functioning in a normal way

“In the other Dartmouth game, his point total seemed to belie his **incapacitation**. Hobbling around pathetically, he scored thirty-six points” p75 (electronic)

**Inclination**

Noun

The natural tendency or urge to act or feel a certain way

“Because Bradley’s **inclination** to analyze every gesture in basketball is fairly uncommon, other players look at him as if they think him a little odd when he seeks them out after a game and asks them to show him what they did in making a move that he particularly admired.” P43

**Impeccable**

Adjective

Faultless; in accordance with the highest standards or propriety

“And finally, his classmates at Princeton, not long before their graduation, summed him up in their “1965 Senior Class Poll,” a rambling, partly serious and partly comical list of superlatives, ranging through eighty-one categories including “Biggest Socialite,” “Biggest Swindler,” “Most Brilliant,” “Most **Impeccably** Dressed,” “Most Ambitious,” “Roughest,” “Smoothest,” “Laziest,” “Hairiest,” and “Most Likely to Retire at Thirty.” Bradley was elected to none of these distinctions.” P100