Vocabulary Week 1

This sporty Dodge Intrepid is designed to be intrepid. Everything from its bright red color, to its sleek shape, to where it sits on high cliffs near the ocean shows its fearlessness and boldness.
The intrepid boy reached for the spider on the wall.

This angel is flopped over in all appearence of hopelessness. She seems to be desondent and desperate, as though she just witnessed a death.
After she lost her home in a fire, Penny became despondent and wondered if life was really
worth living.

This rocket reminds me of aspring to be something, because their job is to shoot way into space where humans can't normally go, like on the moon.
Although this toy rocket is small, it is aspiring to reach the moon.

Although there is a pictrue behind the blotches of colors in this picture, at first it just looks like a lot smeared spots. Even the picture behind thoughs blotches is desultory. It made me think, "What is that?"
The events of the past few days were desultory to Hayley; she could not make any sense of them.

These mountains, thousands of feet high, would certainly be a formidable obsticle for a mountain climber. Looking up at them from the base would make them appear impossible to scale, but even from a distance, they look cold, hard and threatening.
'This man is a formidable opponent indeed,' he thought as he turned to face the knight who held a 4 foot long sword.

Definitions
1. intrepid - adj.-- absolutely courageous; fearless.
2. trepidation - n.-- tremulous fear, alarm or agitation.
3. despondent - adj.-- feeling or showing profound helplessness, dejection, discouragemnt or gloom.
4. decorum - n.-- dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
5. aspire - v.--to have a great ambition or ultimate goal; desire strongly.
6. vacillate - v.-- to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute.
7. desultory - adj.-- lacking in consistency, constancy or visible order; disconnected.
8. fallacy - n.-- deceptive, misleading or false nature.
9. formidable - adj.-- causeing fear, apprehension or dread.
10. heritage - n.-- something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
11. guru - n. -- an intellectual or spiritual guide or leader.