KEYSTONE OP ED VOCAB freebies

VOCABULARY WORDS YOU CAN COPY
* just for visiting the blog, here are at least 8 points out of ten using words from your Keystone    
   Pipeline opinion editorials.  (They are somewhat long-winded and detailed, but still free!)

KEYSTONE PIPELINE OP-ED DUE BY MONDAY
completed packet INCLUDES:
        __ Editorials with vocabulary/unfamiliar words circled; 
                              pro-con statements underlined 
                              plus or minus symbols circled to the left or right of sentences
                               * is the comment positive/FOR building or negative/AGAINST building?
         __ Pro/Con Sentences (from the editorials) 
         __ 10 VOCABULARY words from the editorials (you circled during pre reading)
               * you can copy the definitions from THIS page!!!  -- worth 8pts total!    :) 


CATACLYSM:  (n)  A large scale, violent, highly destructive event, often environmental; can also be a highly destructive personal or non-environmental situation or event, too.  A massive, sudden, destructive upheaval or shake up.  Often used to refer to some doomsday-like event, like a volcano eruption or the collapse of a business or a person's personal life.


PANACEA:   (n)  A remedy or cure for bad disease or illness; also a cure-all for any problems in general.   In Greek mythology, Panacea was the goddess of remedies and cures.
  
* don't forget you have to include the sentence!   (In this case the same sentence for two words)
"Sometimes a pipeline is just a pipeline, not an environmental cataclysm or a panacea for a struggling economy."

INFRASTRUCTURE:  (n) The basic organizational and physical structure of something like a government or country, a business or organization.  (e.g. -- in other words/for example, the infrastructure of a country would be the roads, bridges, highways, dams, the power grid/electrical system -- the arteries and bones of a nation's "body."  A company's infrastructure might include the buildings and and leadership staff and phone or internet systems in place -- everything that keeps the company running as a business.

"The evidence is clear:  The Keystone XL pipeline would stimulate the development of the Canadian tar sands, which would lead to more greenhouse gas emissions and lock in fossil fuel infrastructure at a time when scientists are sounding the alarms on the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground."  (translation:  The pipeline would reinforce oil as a major part of our energy system and continue to cause massive amounts of greenhouse gas emissions).


** by the way, the definition for "infrastructure" is worth 2 points due to it's massive depth and detail and the super long sentence!!!
PROVISION:  (n, v)  If used as a noun, a thing, a provision is the amount of something provided, something that has been provided, supplied, made available.   If the word is used as a verb, it is the action of providing or supplying something (like energy, for instance).

"The people want 21st century energy provision, and they want it now."

TOUT: (v)  1.  Attempting to sell something, usually by pestering or annoying or being super persistent.  2.  Aggressively pushing a point or product or idea.  3. Boastfully or boldy advertising something like a business or product or idea. 4.  Praise extravagantly, over the top, bold, loud praise.

"Keystone defenders, meanwhile, tout the line's economic benefits, and a State Department analysis says that during the year or two it would take to build, Keystone could produce about 42,000 direct and indirect jobs."


FESTER:  (v)  When used to describe a wound, something that rots, molds, putrefies, becomes infested and can even start to smell from the rot.  When used to describe something like a discussion or argument, it means for the conversation to become drawn out and annoying, bitter, nasty, ugly, smoldering, stinky like a rotting wound that just won't heal.

"The argument over Keystone has festered and intensified ever since a Canadian company applied in a 2008 for permission to build the pipeline, which would carry oil from the tar sands of western Canada to Gulf Coast refineries."

 DITHERING:  (v)  To be indecisive and unable to make a decision due to not knowing what to do.  To always be wavering, hesitating, or vacillating; constantly going back and forth, changing one's mind, without reaching a conclusion or decisive act.  (Technically, it's ALSO the act of a computer trying to approximate/create  a color from a mixture of other colors it has when the desired color is not available, but that's not what THIS use of the word means).

"The result has been six years of dithering and the rise of arguments on both sides that are exaggerations at best or lies at worst."