Author: Christian vasiliev

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.

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.

After reading the article “How to rise a feminist son” by Claire Miller I came to the sentences that says “Men who were raised by employed moms are significantly more egalitarian in their gender attitudes,” the word “egalitarian” popped up and I was of course curious to find out what it meant. At first I thought that it meant something to do with being fancy but turns out according to Merriam Webster it means ” asserting, promoting, or marked”. this was really weird and not what I aspected. I I can safely used this word without looking dumb in front of people.

After reading “teaching men to be emotional honest” I came across a world that I didn’t remember what it meant the world was “ubiquitous”, I was very curious I wanna to find out. According to Merriam Webster it means “existing or being everywhere at the same time” which a bit confusing at first but later it clicked and now it make a lot of sense. Now with the word finally in my head I feel better knowing what it is.

When reading “The Boys at the Back” by Christina Hoff Sommers i came across familiar word that I always listen to but didn’t bother to understand it’s background the word “sympathize”. In the article she said “I can sympathize with those who roll their eyes at the relatively recent alarm over boys’ achievement.” With my research I found that according to Webster’s Dictionary the world means “to be in keeping, accord, or harmony” which now gives me a good understanding on how the world holds to have a lot of emotions for someone. It’s truly a good word to use in a conversation.

When I was reading the article if Black man want to heal racism’s wounds, we can’t pretend to be strong all the time by Mychal Denzel Smith , I came across a familiar world people would always talk about so I really wanted to see how the professionals would address this word. According to Webster’s Dictionary the word means “a mood disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencies”, this is really upsetting to know that people have to go through this yet I think some don’t know what depression truly means until they experience it, that’s depressing.

In this week’s reading brave we are by Tahira Naqvi found an interesting word that I haven’t heard in while, the word was “forlornly” were “a small piece of biscuit lies before him on the table and he fusses with it …” was used to describe Kasim’s actions at the table. According to Merriam Webster dictionary the word means sad and lonely because of isolation. I feel like I like this word since it isn’t used that much and it could be use to describe something thats very coum in todays’s society. I feel like I understand the part of the text better now and how it was intended to describe Kasim’s actions. I will for sure try to use that word more often.