Month: November 2018

After reading “A jury of her peers” by Susana Glaspeal I found a word that fully got my interest and it was when I read “Well, I don’t know as Wright had, either,” she muttered”. the word “muttered” really puts me of when I read some stories and I image it has something to do talking but in what why?, some I finally put my ego aside and went to find out what it really meant. By research I found out that it means ” to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed” which I it finally click in my head and got a sense of all the stories that I misinterpret in my English life. I feel more smart now.

After reading “A jury of her peers” by Susana Glaspeal I came across a word that got my eye and it was”queerness” or “queer” which I was assuming that it had something to do with homosexuals but after finding out what it really meant I was really shook. Acrroding to Webster dictionary the word means “absorbed or interested to an extreme or unreasonable degree”  and this really got my interest in have a lot of words that we use today many have turned into some kind of slag, that word really holds a lot of meaning to many people and controversy as well. I now feel more knowledgable in the words I use and hear there for I feel accomplish.

After reading “Sweat” by Zora Neale I notice and weird word that was use to represent an action and that word was “scornfully” in the senates “he shouted scornfully”, I was really confused since I didn’t hear that word before in my life or maybe I didn’t remember that well. I did research and found out that word According to Merriam Webster means “full of scorn” in further detail it means “the feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable” which was confusing at first but I later got the concept. I feel really happy to know what it means and can go to sleep AT NIGHT.

Galvanized: to stimulate or excite as if by electric shock (verb)

When reading “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, I came across the word galvanized, and I have never seen this word before in my life, so out of my curiosity I decided to look further into what galvanized could mean. But before I did that, I guessed that it had something to do with an object being new. The reason why I thought so was because, Zora Hurston uses this word by stating ” and returned with a galvanized tub and set it on the washbench” so I believed that Delia (one of the main characters in the story) came with a new tub and set it on the washbench. However when I searched up galvanized, it actually meant to stimulate or excite. So I put two and two together, Delia came with a stimulate tub which made much more sense in the sentence. Now I know how to use this word in the future.

Nayideh Rene

After reading “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston I came a really unfamiliar word and that was “sporadically”, it was used as “she sporadically finished her education” I assumed that it must have meant slowly sine it was mention something about education and finishing it, so I basically used context clues but I went to Merriam Webster dictionary and found out it means ” not regularly or constantly” which was close to what I thought it meant. I now feel like an expert when using context clues since it was really close to the exact definition of the word but most importantly now what it really means.

Equitable(Abjective)

According to a dictionary Marriam-Webster the word equitable mean “ dealing fairly and equally with all concerned”

Based on the article we learn in the class”How to Raise a Feminist Son” by Claire Cain Miller, “If we want to create  an equitable society, one in which everyone can thrive, we need to give boy more choice”.

After I knew the meaning equitable it help me to understand the whole sentence which mean tif we want out society to be equal we need to gave boy more freedom, and let them do the thing they want to.

Accordig to the Merriam-Webster the word whir is a intransitive word and means to fly revolve or move more rapidly. This word can be found in “ A jury of her peers” by Susan Glaspell and it says “ A tremendous stir inside there, another series of animal screams, the intermittent whirr of the reptile.“ This word means that the rattlesnake moved very rapidly. The author used this word in a way for us too see and feel how the rattlesnake was moving. I will use this word in my writing to describe when animals move fast.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word Scimitar means a saber having a curved blade with the edge on the convex side and used chiefly by Arabs and Turks. This word was found in the reading piece ‘Sweat’ by Zora Neale Hurtston. It was in the context “One day as Delia came down the kitchen steps she saw his chalky-white fangs curved like scimitars hung in the wire meshes.” From the definition given above, I can conclude that the author used scimitars as a simile to describe how curved the snake’s fangs were.