Week One: 9/8 - 9/16
This week I read page 1 to page 135 of Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
New Vocabulary
-conglomerates: (3) noun - a number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities. verb - gather together into a compact mass.
-behemoths: (5) noun - something enormous, especially a big and powerful organization. - a huge or monstrous creature.
-political radicalism: (6) noun - denotes political principles focused on altering social structures through revolutionary means and changing value systems in fundamental ways.
-stoicism: (9) noun - the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.
-yuppies: (9) noun - a well-paid young middle-class professional who works in a city job and has a luxurious lifestyle.
-dilapidated: (17) adjective - in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect.
-sardonic: (19) adjective - grimly mocking or cynical
-enigmatic: (19) adjective - difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.
-disaffected: (20) adjective - dissatisfied with the people in authority and no longer willing to support them.
-tribulation: (44) noun - a cause or state of great trouble or suffering.
-synergy: (99) noun - the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
-cataclysmic: (112) adjective - relating to or denoting a violent natural event.
-syncopation: (131) noun - a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat.
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