Story of an Eyewitness/Leaving Desire Vocab

Lavishly extravagantly
From the book dynamite was lavishly used in many of San Francisco’s proud of the structures will crumble by man itself into ruins
synonym used a lot
My sentence: I put butter lavishly on to the piece of Sourdough

Menace possible danger or threat
From the book stirred on by the menace of bayonets
Synonym threat
My sentence: I was a menace when I peed on the floor.

Compel: pressure by force
From the book often off to surmounting a hot breaking hill they would find another wall the flame and boxing up on them at right angle and be compelled to change a new deadline of the retreat
Synonym: wanting to do
My sentence: I was compelled to eat the cookies when my mom told me not to

Vigilantly: A state of alertness
From the book: “Akita was standing next to him is hooked vigilantly”
Synonym: watchful
My sentence: I watched the man breaking into the safe vigilantly.

Intermittently: stopping and starting at intervals
From the book it was a Hot day and the floodwall just smelled strongly of oil and sewage and stung the eyes that what are the smells from Islands of rotting garbage and intermittently as elsewhere in the city the smell of death
My sentence we kept stopping intermittently and looking around

Disconcert: to frustrate by throwing into disorder
From the book: Appearing disconcerted and watchful
Synonym: Troubled
My Sentence: I was disconcerted when my grandfather was killed.

Questions
1. Jack London had a wide scope because he focused on the whole of San Francisco getting destroyed instead of just one person

2. Jack London was on biased towards this article he had no opinions and at the end he could’ve said we should help San Francisco but he had no opinion on the matter

3. Government made people leave the pet behind because they were funded to evacuate people’s pets.

4. I like the second article better because it was very touching when he came back for his dog that you left when he was evacuated

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