Cooze: A cooze is a superficial, shallow, provincial, and generally ignorant person, who is so intellectually and socially repulsive.
Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cooze
“Rat mails the letter. He waits two months. The dumb cooze never writes back.” from The Things they Carried by Tim O’ Brien
The word cooze is a word that describes a all the features of a coward in which Rat is calling Curt Lemon for fooling around with the smoke grenade.
Gook: A derrogatory term used for the purpose of describing a korean. (Obtained form the korean pronunciation of their country, Hangook.)
Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gook
“Rat says, all that gore, about twenty zillion dead gook fish”.
The word Gook is used as a derogatory term to represent Koreans.
Locavore: one who eats foods grown locally whenever possible
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/locavore?show=0&t=1387245850
“After the recession, laid-off workers and college graduates looking for new and innovative jobs turned to the industry as a way to capitalize on the locavore food movement.” from Gotham farmers sprout cash crops by Adrianne Pasquarelli
I now understand the usage of the word Locavore because the quote uses it to describe the type of people that is of the latest trend of eating anything that’s grown locally.
Hydroponic: a method of growing plants in water rather than in soil
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hydroponic
“BrightFarms, which finances, builds and operates such ventures, is spending about 4 million to construct a 100,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse on a roof in Sunset Park, Brooklyn”. from Gotham farmers sprout cash crops by Adrianne Pasquarelli
I now understand the usage of the word hydroponic, because in the quote above it explains how the seeds will be grown which is a method where seeds will be grown in water as opposed to soil.
On Thursday 19th, a speech was hosted in City Tech, for extra credit Professor Davis gave us a list of things we could do for extra points. The list consisted of setting up the rooms for the competitors, to participate in the competition, or show up for the final round and write about it. Professor Davis encouraged us to participate in the competition and that if we managed to make it to the final round, an unholy amount of street credit was promised. My schedule did not permit me to be part of the competition because it first began at 12:15pm and my first class does not end until 12:45pm. I was lucky enough to make it to help my classmates with whatever they needed to set up and spectate the speakers. After the first round we were called to room 10-03 for refreshments. There most of the Competition Coordinators congratulated those who went and participated in the competition. The final round was said to start at around 3:00pm and was supposed to end, I couldn’t take part in that event because I had an upcoming class at 2:30pm which finished at 3:45pm even though I wasn’t able to earn all the extra credit I’m satisfied that Professor Davis even offered a chance for extra credit.
On October 4th, in the class Speech-1330 taught by Professor Davis, was the day of the speech midterm. Which to my surprise was a documented multiple choice exam because I was expecting The Midterm consisted of questions in chapters 1-6 of the textbook. The test was a bit rough for me because I was not ready for the way Professor Davis worded the answer choices and I think I could speak for a good portion of the class. I must admit thought I didn’t spend too much time studying and I ended up biting the bullet. But, Professor Davis, being the nice guy that he is, sees that the entire class average was a mere 49% decided to boost everyone’s test grade by 20 points because he saw that the entire class was putting in a respectable amount of work into our class blog. When I was finished I caught up with people who had already finished the test and almost everyone said that the wording answer choices were the biggest problem and were the most confusing. In conclusion, my speech midterm was on October 4th and it surely caught me off guard along with some of my friends but thanks to Professor Davis boosting our grade by 20 points I had a better grade than I would’ve hope for.
Discern: to see, hear, or notice (something) with difficulty or effort
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discern
“Mr.Self studied the streetscape carefully, eager to discern the exact point when it turned from a black and Hispanic neighborhood to an Orthodox Jewish one.”
The quote above uses the word, Discern to explain how Mr.Self is trying hard to listen to his new surroundings.
Yarmulke: a skullcap worn especially by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish males in the synagogue and the home
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yarmulke
“eager to discern the exact point when it turned from a black and Hispanic neighborhood to an Orthodox Jewish one, and was delighted when he spotted a guy in a Yarmulke talking to two coffee-colored men.” From a Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport by Charles McGrath
The following quote uses the word to explain the religion of the man through what he was wearing. Which creates an image for the reader to visualize while reading this passage.
Carousing: a large draft of liquor
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carousing
“But Mr.Self’s has been clean for eight years or so, and some of the energy he used to expend on carousing now goes into epic hikes, sometimes as long as 100 miles.” from A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport by Charles McGrath
I now understand the carousing used in the following quote because Will Self has found another way to keep his mind off drinking.
Diatribe: an angry and usually long speech or piece of writing that strongly criticizes someone or something
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diatribe?show=0&t=1386997887
“Will Self’s new novel, “The Book of Dave” is about a London cabdriver who inadvertently founds a religion when ranting diatribe he buries in the garden of his ex-wife.” from A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport by Charles Mcgrath
In Will Self’s novel a piece of writing of a creator of a self created religion was dug up five centuries after the creator and the diatribe explains the components of the religion.
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