Vocab week 3 

Choleric: excessive anger

• Because the boss was often choleric at the smallest problem, we tried to stay away from him.

coup: violent alteration done by a small group

• The protesters caused a coup when they started breaking things.

debacle: a disaster

• I was nervous that my presentation would go bad, and I was right because it was a debacle.

debilitate: to impair the strength of/ to weaken

• The sickness left me debilitated, and I was unable to exercise.

deference: respect to an elder

• I obeyed the teacher out of deference, but i really did not want to do my work.

  The Trojan horse

• The trojan horse is from greek lore. It was first talked about in the Odyssey. The greek solders left a giant horse outside for the Trojans. They thought it was a offering from Athena and took it inside. The greek solders were hiding inside, and they popped out when the Trojans took the horse in. This let the Greeks defeat Troy.
• Now it means something looking innocent, but once taken in, they really do harm.
• I thought i was downloading the new movie, but really it was a Trojan horse ,and it gave me a virus.

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