Class Notes - vocab from Nov 6

Hello there! Have you all decided to stay home on Friday night and study some English? What could possibly be more exciting, right?
Well, let's get straight to the point, shall we?

1. First of all, customize does indeed have two possible spellings: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/customize
2. What do you do with a Van Gogh painting (if you just happen to have one)? You can take it to Sotheby's and ______________ it for millions!!
   
3. You will all recall the word hoax, which is used to describe an elaborate fraud carried out with premeditation to deceive a large quantity of people. We were wondering if the little snake show on the Greek island of Kefallonia was actually a hoax.
   On a smaller scale, as when a poker player uses a loaded deck, we prefer to use the word con, which is particularly common in the passive, eg. I've been conned. A person who makes a living out of conning people is called a con artist.
   
4. Finally, for your writing assignments, you might want to employ the linker "Arguably,..." which is equivalent to saying "It can be argued that..."
5. What's a synonym for weird, strange, or singular?
6. Winning the Euromillions lottery: a blessing or a ____________?
7. Mozart, who was a musical genius, apparently had perfect _________________.
   

That's all folks!...