Monday, December 17, 2007

Outside reading post #6

Part A:

uncanny:Of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature pg 158
altruism: Kindly, charitable interest in others pg 162

Outside reading post #5

Part A:

haute:Fashionably elegant pg 121
mahogany:Any of various tropical American evergreen trees of the genus Swietenia, valued for their hard, reddish-brown wood. pg 127

Outside reading post #4

Part A:

invigorating:Producing or stimulating physical, mental, or emotional vigor. pg 85
Ebola virus:An extremely contagious filovirus causing an acute, usually fatal hemorrhagic fever and spread through contact with bodily fluids of infected persons and by airborne particles. pg 92