Collection 6: Reality Check

Ever have a sense of deja vu? David Brin's short story investigates the possibility that our lives are virtual simulations that we live through again and again.

Make sure to check out these lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 6: Winter Dreams, poems of the Harlem Renaissance, poems by Robert Frost, The Crucible, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine, Reality Check, The Ends of the World as We Know Them, The Universe as Primal Scream
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  1. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  2. sapience
    ability to apply knowledge, experience, or understanding
  3. nemesis
    a personal foe or rival that cannot be easily defeated
  4. fecundity
    the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
  5. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  6. exponentiation
    the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
  7. omniscient
    knowing, seeing, or understanding everything
  8. frenzy
    state of violent mental agitation
  9. rejuvenation
    restoration to a more youthful, fresh, or lively condition
  10. placid
    calm and free from disturbance
  11. plaint
    a cry of sorrow and grief
  12. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  13. protocol
    code of correct conduct
  14. voluptuous
    displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  15. deification
    elevation to the status of a god
Created on Fri Jul 18 22:19:42 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Jul 30 16:16:23 EDT 2014)

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