During class on August 30th, right away when the class and I started reading “Coming to an Awareness of Language Malcolm X” together, the first word that I was not familiar with was the word ‘Inaction’. It was used in the very first sentence of the piece and quote “I’ve never been one for inaction.”. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word ‘Inaction’ means lack of action or activity. At first, when I encountered the word I thought it meant the opposite of what it was supposed to mean, which was being active. Now that I understand the word, the context that followed up with the first sentence now makes a lot of sense. For example, the next sentence that comes up is “Everything I’ve felt strongly about, I’ve done something about.” Which does not contradict what Malcolm stated in the first sentence, because if he was actually an inaction person then he wouldn’t have done anything about whatever he felt strongly about. Also when I was looking up the word, the word “Idleness” came up as a synonym in which it gave me a better understanding of what the word ‘Inaction’ means.
Link of a picture that represents the word inaction – https://gyazo.com/4d09c8da89124a17f723659a17661f79
