Category: Entry 11

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.

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The article “Our Love Affair With Digital Is Over” deals with the advancement in technology over the years. How technology has created online communities. Creating the debate wether they can be give you the same feeling as a real life neighborhood or community. While reading this article I stumbled upon the word Affluter. The sentence read ” like most relationships we plunge into with hearts affluter.” I had no idea what this word meant. Merriam- Webster dictionary defines it as an adjective “meaning nervously excited”. After rereading the sentence with the new acquired knowledge I was able finally able to understand what it really meant. The author was trying to say how as we begin new relationships we always seen to be nervous but yet very excited about the possible outcomes.

According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of sifted is, ” to go through very carefully in order to find something useful or valuable”. In the article, “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell I found this word on the first paragraph. Sifted is used by Martha when she was working in the kitchen. Like Delia she wants everything organized and perfect. She want her kitchen to be cleaned in every way.

According to the web, disdainful means showing contempt or lack of respect. This word could be found in the story ” The Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell. For example, “Mrs. Hale began to arrange the dirty pans under the sink, which the county attorneys disdainful push of the foot had deranged.” When I first came across this word I thought it meant heavy or a strong push because it messed up the pans under the sink. when I looked up disdainful I realized that my definition of it was also connected to the real definition because it showed a lack of respect of how the attorneys treated them. They did not care how they treated them as long as they found the clues.

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.

Ventured: An undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one(noun)

While reading “A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell, I came across the word ventured, which seemed unfamiliar to me so I chose it for this week. Before looking further into what ventured meant, I used context clues to guess the definition, the author states “The country’s not very pleasant this time of year,” Mrs. Peters at last ventured, as if she felt they ought to be talking as well as the men”, I than concluded that ventured meant something that was unpleasant, but when I looked it up, it meant more than unpleasant, it also meant involving a risky or dangerous outcome. I now know how to use this word in future context.

stoic(noun)

According to the dictionary William Webster the word stoic mean”One apparently or professedly indiffirent to pleasure or pain”

This word appear in the article that we learn “What Feminists Can Do For Boys” By Jessica Valenti, “Feminist  ideas can help men – be it the rejection of expectations that men be strong and stoic or ending the silence around male of sexual violence.”

After I understood the meaning of stoic, I will be able to understand the meaning of the sentence, which mean Female can help men be against the strong and pain that men have and to end the sexual violence.

According to the Merriam Webster the meaning of the word threaded is “a filament, a group of filaments twisted together, or a filamentous length formed by spinning and twisting short textile fibers into a continuous strand” and it is a verb. It can be found on A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell. “she threaded a needle and started to replace bad sewing with good. For a little while she sewed in silence.” The word threaded is used to replace the bad sewing with good. This means that she was trying to hide the bad sewing spot that was left in order to get rid of the evidence of her murder. This word helped me understand her intentions to help Ms. Wrights out.

According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, apprehensive is identified as a adjective. It means “viewing the future with anxiety or alarm, feeling or showing fear.” In the short story, “A the jury of her peers”, it states, “Again their eyes met–startled, questioning, apprehensive.” The word apprehensive is used to describe how their feeling at the moment. They saw the broken cage and knew something was wrong. They had a bad feeling and didn’t want to stay there any longer.

Based on the Merriam-Webster the word Interludes (noun) means a usually short simple play or dramatic entertainment. On page #279 in “Sweat”, it state that, ” Delia and Sykes fought all the time now with no peaceful interludes” based on this quote we can said that in their marriage there were always fights. Delia was used to live in this environment of drama and this is why we can say that she got to her limit with him and let him die, she was tired of his abusive character towards her.