English 9 - Mr. Ubriaco

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
    Just get people to stop reading them.
~ Ray Bradbury test

Vocabulary Journal Sample Entry

Word: incomparable

Source: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, p.117

Context: “Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really                             formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees - he could climb                   to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp                        down the incomparable milk of wonder.”

My Guess:  unlike anything else

Dictionary Definition: 1. Without equal, matchless 2. not able to be compared

Part of Speech: adjective

Forms of the Word: incomparably

Synonym: peerless, unrelated, uncomparable, incommensurable

Prefix and/or Suffix: pre- in, suffix - able

Connotation: positive

My Sentence: The voice of Nina Simone is incomparable to anyone I have ever heard                                     before.