Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: The concept that an ever-expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy.
Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Consumerism?s=t
Encountered: In the article “The Happiest and Saddest Places in New York City, According to Twitter” by Brian Merchant. “Times Square is the gleeful buzzing monument American consumerism.”
Understanding: I understand that he was talking about Times Square being a place of trade.
Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: The state of being happy and satisfied
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contentment
Encountered: In the article “The Happiest and Saddest Places in New York City, According to Twitter” by Brian Merchant. “Regardless, it’s a fascinating look at where we’re tweeting our rage – and our contentment – throughout the city.”
Understanding: I better understand the sentence now that I know what this word means.
Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: Either one of two things that are closely connected or correlated with each other
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/correlate?show=0&t=1387344231
Encountered: In the article “The Happiest and Saddest Places in New York City, According to Twitter” by Brian Merchant. “Elsewhere, for the most part, happiness tends correlate to leisure and wealth, though perhaps not as overtly as you’d guess.”
Understanding: Now I understand that he is saying happiness is related to leisure and wealth.
Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: Time when you are not working
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leisure
Encountered: In the article “The Happiest and Saddest Places in New York City, According to Twitter” by Brian Merchant. “Elsewhere, for the most part, happiness tends correlate to leisure and wealth, though perhaps not as overtly as you’d guess.”
Understanding: I understand that he is saying that happiness is related to wealth and time spent not doing work.
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: present in all places at all times
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/omnipresent?show=0&t=1387343983
Meaning: I read this word while reading Waterfront: A walk around Manhattan in the chapter The Brooklyn Bridge .When it said the bridge is always iconically omnipresent I think it meant that hard work done to the bridge is always present out there.
On 12/12/13, I attended the CityTech speech competition. I came to the competition with a few other of my classmates and we helped out with setting up the classrooms for the first round of the speech. The first round in my class had five speakers. The winner of the first round in the classroom I was in spoke on cyber bullying. The final round was located in the Atriumm theater room. on the base floor. There were 7 speakers in the final round. The second speaker was my favorite one. He spoke on why we should limit the use of our smart devices. I believe he raised many good points, which is why his speech was my favorite. Fortunately, he was the one that came in first in the final round.
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: very neat and clean
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nattily?show=0&t=1387343373
Meaning: I encountered this word while reading tunnel rats in the lines The explorers began noticing a nattily dressed man carrying a suitcase. This means while Yonette was going the manhole explorer noticed a very neat and clean man who was also interested in going in the manhole
Part of Speech: Verb
Definition: to make (someone) more confident
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emboldened
Meaning: I read this word while reading the tunnel rats in the lines Thus emboldened, I scrambled down a ladder….
Now that I know what embolden means in this context it meant that Yonette Joseph was confident going the manhole to dig out the treasure under it.
Noun
Definition: a person who does not like other people
I found this word on the 3rd page of “The Happiest and Saddest Places in New York City, According to Twitter.”
That was the first time I’ve heard of the word “misanthrope.” I now know what it means.
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misanthrope
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: very strange or unusual
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%20surreal
Meaning : I saw this when I was reading the article Tunnel Rats of Atlantic Av in the lines I got tunnel fever when I was walking to a market in Brooklyn Heights and came upon the surreal sight of ordinary folks crawling into a manhole, some of them wearing their nice clothes.
Now that I know what surreal means I think that it meant it was a very strange to the author seeing people going the manhole.
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