Vocabulary

1.Conscription
Context: It has the word script in it so it has to do with a piece of paper that notifies military service. It looks like it is just another word for draft.
Sen.: During war time, it has been known that countries some times use conscription to fill their ranks if there aren't many volunteers.

2. relegate
Context: Relegate sort of sounds like relocate, maybe there's a connection.
Sen.: The upper command office decided to relegate some of the lower ranking officers, in order to go through with their greater plan.

3. candor
Context: i don't know the context of this word but, if I had to make a guess I'd say it had to do with honesty and honor.
Sen.: The boyscout went to the witness stand and spoke of the defendents actions that night with great candor.

Vocab

1.ideology
Context clues/ Word analysis: ide- made me think of idea, and then -ology made me think of the study of. So could it be the study of an idea?
Original sentence: The ideology of the wilderness tribe was some what primitive and out of date.

2.Xenophobia
Context Clues/ Word Analysis: I didn't know what xeno- meant but from what i had read it mus tmean like an outsider or foreigner. I knew waht -phobia meant, so to conclude xenophobia means fear of outsiders.
Original sentence: The villagers off of the islands coast were xenophobic towards the island's new inhabitants, by throwing spears and rocks at them so they would leave.

3.ascension
Context clues/ Word Analysis: To move upward.
Origingal sentence: The audience was amazed at the spectacle of the hot air balloon moving up towards the sky, and never seen or heard from again.

First post-vocab

1.Crestfallen
2.The context clue that helped me learn the meaning of crestfallen was in the passsage from the "Scions of the Surge" article in Newsweek. The word was mentioned while describing the devastation and grief that Tim Wright experienced when he learned that his staff sergeant lost both of his legs and an arm.
3.Jimmy felt crestfallen when he found out that his basketball coach had been benching him because he wasn't as good at the sport as the other players on the team were.

1.Convoy
2.I discovered the meaning of the word convoy in the Newsweek article, when it had mentioned soliders coming out of an armored convoy. The word armored gave me a hint that convoy might mean something for protection.
3.A convoy of troops surrounded the pope mobile as it was touring the city of Seattle, so that the pope was under contstant protection.

1.unprecedented
2. The word unprecedented was used to describe the independence of Iraq, and it's effect on the Muslim culture. It showed me that unprecedented is something that hasn't been known before or unexperienced.
3.The small town of Howning experienced an unprecedented economic boom when they found fossil fuel in their back yards.