According to Merriam Webster, galvanized means to coat (iron or steel) with zinc . This word could be found in the story “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston. For example, ” She went out into the yard and returned with a galavanized tub and set it on the washbench.” When i first came across this word, i knew it was describing how the bucket looked in shape color or size. When I then looked up the word and knew it was a steel or iron tub , I remembered thats what the women used to wash clothes with in the past. Also with her being an African American women being inferior to the white race, she had to wash their clothes for them by hand.
Glossary
Truculently(adjective)
According to the web, truculently means having the eagerness or quickness to fight or argue and being agressively defiant. This word could be found in the story “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston. For example, ” She saw that Sykes had kicked all of the clothes again, and now stood in her way truculently, his whole manner hoping, praying, for an argument.” When i first came across this word, I knew it had to describe how Sykes was feeling towards Delia as if he was going to do something to her. Also, with him being quick to react or aggressive because he was the more superior one in thier relationship.
Progress
- Broadened, Pleaded, Huddling, Suppressing, Turmoil,
- Dysphoria, ,Candidly, Alienation, Stoic, Gibberish, Interludes
Through the semester I think the glossary assignment was a great technique to improve my reading and to understand more the articles, also learning words I didn’t know their meanings. By doing these glossary assignments it was a helpful way to write my essays, not only in the writing part but also, in the point it came to explain myself for the quotations. However, as a classmate it made us see each other point of view and different opinion based on our readings. The experience of working in groups was a great experience and a special moment because it made us more comfortable with each other and to know us more, talk about our ideas, how to organize as a group to do our part of the project. This project made us get the best out of our understanding and what we have learned through the semester.
my interpretation
well, I finally got all the words that messed me up but most importantly I learned a lot new things specially when it comes to viewing the English languish. what I can tell from viewing all this words I gain a since that they all have old english roots which of course makes it hard for all of us to read. Knowing such words have caused me to ask their origin form where they come from and how different it is to use them today. like I mention before we don’t hear or see this words that much anymore and even if we did it will make us question what is wrong with the person who said it in a casual conversation. This experience was amazing since it made me go back to words that I put them to the side and ignore that made me feel less anxious when it came to english since it is my second langue after all but I feel that it doesn’t really mater since we are all here to learn and English is really complex with all the Shakespeare it has in it. with all to an end knowing this words really improve my English.
“muttered”
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.
“queerness”
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.
“scornfully”
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
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
“sporadically”
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
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.
