Recent Word of the Week Winners
War Memorial Library :
PHILANTHROPY
Noun The practice of performing charitable or benevolent actions. Love of mankind in general usually shown by contributions of money, property or work for the benefit of others.
chosen by Ms. Magee (Attendance Officer)
PROFLIGACY
Noun Reckless or extravagant spending or behaviour. Dissolute or immoral behaviour.
chosen by Ms. Brett (Science)
INUNDATED
Adjective Overwhelmed with demands, offers. Covered with water, especially flood water. Overwhelmed as if with a flood or swamp.
chosen by Mr. McKenzie (Reprographics)
Discovery Library :
CYNIC
Noun A person who believes the worst about people or the outcome of events.
chosen by Leonnie Benians (8LO)
ESCARPMENT
Noun A steep slope at the edge of some high level ground.
chosen by Ally Wood (7HB)
MIDWIFE
Noun A person trained to look after a woman who is giving birth to a baby.
chosen by Kelsey Jordan-Brown (7SH)
CIRCULATION
Noun A movement to and fro. The flow of blood through the body.
chosen by Wayde Swanepoel (7MZ)
GALLIVANTING
Verb To wander in search of Pleasure.
chosen by Lisa Onyeka (7HB)
Recent Word of the Week Winners
War Memorial Library :
BOUNCEBACKABILITY
Noun The ability to recover after a setback, especially in sport.chosen by Mrs. Edwards (Librarian)
PROPENSITYNoun An inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.
chosen by Dr Garrido (Science)
ODORIFEROUS
Adjective Giving off an odour, especially a pleasant odour.chosen by Ms. Roberts (Librarian)
Discovery Library :
COUNTERMEASURENoun Action taken to counter the outcome of another action.
chosen by Craig Butler (8MD)
AUSPICIOUSchosen by Callum Moloney-Joyce (7CL)
Adjective An Omen of success – fortunate.
OMNIPOTENT
Adjective To have almighty or infinite power. To have a very great or unlimited authority. Supreme, mighty, powerfulchosen by Lisa Onyeka (7HB)
We are launching a new and exciting competition in the Library called ‘Guess Who’s Reading’. All year groups are welcome to enter. Eight members of staff at TRS were photographed reading. If students can guess who all eight are they will be awarded VIVO points. There will also be a free prize draw and all forms with 8 correct answers will be entered. The closing date will be Friday the 1st of June 2012.
Please remember that we are collecting the following tokens:
Sainsburys
Tesco
Nestle
They can be handed in or placed in the box at Reception
Recent Word of the Week Winners
War Memorial Library:
ANTHROPOPHAGY
Noun The eating of human flesh by other human beings: Cannibalism.
chosen by Ms. Crozier (RE)
DERELICT
Adjective Run-down, abandoned, deserted, out of use.
chosen by Jonah Haffner (12KE)
GALVANIC REANIMATION
Adjective/Noun Using direct-current electricity to bring people back from the dead.
chosen by Bryony Swain (13RE)
SIMILARITIES
Noun A corresponding aspect or feature. Points, features or details in which two items are alike.
chosen by Tharani Thavarabalan (12RF)
MISE-EN-SCENE
Noun Everything that you see in a camera shot. Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted.
chosen by Jack Newman (13ME)
TESSERA
Noun A small square of stone, tile or glass used in mosaics. In Ancient Greece or Rome a small tablet of wood or bone used as a token.
chosen by Precious Akinbileje (10BE)
DISCOMBOBULATE
Verb To upset, confuse or disconcert. To befuddle or perplex. To cause to be unable to think clearly.
chosen by Melissa Owusu-Ansah (13WH)
Discovery Library :
STOIC
Adjective To not give in, to keep going to the very end, to resist pain and continue anyway.
chosen by Luke Blanchard (9TN)
MAGNOLIA
Noun An Asian and North American tree or shrub with white, pink, purple or yellow showy flowers.
chosen by Samuel Young (9BM)
MIZZENMAST
Noun On a vessel with three or more masts the third mast from the bow
chosen by Blaise Bizzell (8BG)
GAFFE
Noun An embarrassing blunder.
chosen by Ryan Sewell (8FN)
DYSFUNCTIONAL
Adjective Any disturbance or abnormality in the function of an organ or part, especially of a family. Failure to show the characteristics or fulfill the purposes accepted as normal or beneficial.
chosen by Tatenda Matsvai (9AR)
MASOCHIST
Noun Someone who enjoys things that seem painful or tiresome.
chosen by Lauren Carne (9TH)
WOEFULLY
Adjective Expressing or characterized by sorrow. Bringing or causing woe. Pitiful, miserable.
chosen by Robert Yelding (7SH)
Recent Word of the Week Winners
War Memorial Library :
Necromancy
Noun
Communication with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future. Sorcery. Black magic.
chosen by Danielle Crump (12JO)
Anomie
Noun
Lack of social or moral standards or values in an individual or society. Loss of a sense of what it is to be normal.
chosen by Nabila Wright (13AP)
Serendipity
Noun
The ability or habit of making pleasant or interesting discoveries by accident.
chosen by Mr. Case (English Department)
Septenviguple
Noun/adjective/verb
The term for multiples of 27 i.e. 27 times something. Used in the game of Scrabble.
chosen by Mr. Fordham (Student Leadership Coordinator)
Discovery Library :
Lebensraum
Noun
A territory claimed by a nation or state because it is necessary for survival or growth.
chosen by William Breslin (8BM)
Neophyte
Noun
A person newly converted to a religion.
chosen by Jordan Smith (7CZ)
Stygian
Adjective
Gloomy or Hellish.
chosen by Noah Thompson (8LO)
Christmas
Noun
Annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ when Christians give presents to each other.
chosen by Peter Ralph (7CT)
