Author: Ibeatzmymeatz

The word vigorously can be found on page 277 on the article “Sweat”. In the article the word vigorously was used on the line ” he began to stir vigorously.” The word vigorously means to put great strength into based on dictionary.com. The author used the word vigorously because in the article Delilah’s husband Sykes tried to use a snake to his advantage and scare her away. When she realizes the snake starts moving vigorously because the snake is putting strength to move around.

On the article ” Jury of her Peers ” the word genial was used on characterizing Mr.Peter’s job. The word genial means to be warmly pleasant or comfortable based on dictionary.com. The word genial is found in the line ” Mr.Peters a sheriff- heavy man who is genial with the law-bidding” .I found the word genial to be interesting because when reading it at first I thought they were describing Mr.Peters but the author wanted it to be based on his work.

On the ninth paragraph of the article “Sweat’ the word commenced stood out to me. The word commenced means to begin or start based on dictionary.com. I chose the word commenced because based on the story Delilah’s husband Skyes was upset that her job was cleaning clothes and when he knocked it down after it was finished she had to redo it which was to me petty.

Word defined by Merriam-Webster: feminism(noun): The theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.Organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests.The second definition of “feminism” is used in ” What Feminist can do for Boys” in the fifth paragraph. The author, Jessica Valenti says that feminism provides a means of women to escape the sexist status . An example as I view the word Feminism is:Some major acts of feminism occured in the mid-1800s, for example, The  Women’s Rights Movement in which women’s right leaders such as Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth fought for equal voting rights for women.

Based on dictionary.com the word outstripped  means to outdo or outperform. In the article ” Teaching men to be emotionally honest” the author used the word outstrip on the line “It should come as no surprise that college enrollment rates for women have outstripped men’s.”  to compare women to men based on the college enrollment rate. While reading this article the word outstripped stood out to me because I never knew that females have outstripped man in college enrollment.

In the article “The Boys are Back” , the word noncognitive came upon to my attention when I didn’t understand the word on the line “The scholars attributed this “misalignment” to differences in “noncognitive skills” . Based on dictionary.com the word noncognitive is an adjective meaning to act concerned, but still knowing.

Andrew Reiner, the author of “Talking to boys the way we talk to girls” used the word angling on paragraph 3. Based on the Merriam-Webster dictionary the word angling is a noun and it means the sport of fishing. Based on the sentence ” When fathers appear in children’s picture books, they’re angling for laughs, taking their sons on adventures or modeling physical strength or stoic independence ” . The author used the word as a term where it’s common for a father-son activity to do.

Based on the site Dictionary.com the word emasculate means to deprive a man from his role. In the article “The Boys are not all right”on the first line the word emasculate was used to show as a mockery to a male. “I used to have this one-liner: “If you want to emasculate a guy friend, when you’re at a restaurant, ask him everything that he’s going to order”.