Scenic (adjective) -of or relating to the stage, a stage setting, or stage representation

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scenic

This word was found in the “What If You Could Choose Between the Fastest Route and the Most Beautiful?” article by Lex Berko. This sentence states ” After all, how could a mapping service know how to take the scenic value of a route into account when calculating directions?”. This sentence is located on the first page, first paragraph, last sentence.

When I came upon this word I thought it met area but when i looked it up i mean relating to the stage. So it meant to me that this word meant that people see certain areas relatable to there past experienced that has been peaceful. As well an area can have a meaning to somebody that is very powerful to them.

Nebulous (adjective)- of, relating to, or resembling a nebula

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nebulous

This word was found in the article by Lex Berko “What If You Could Choose Between the Fastest Route and the Most Beautiful Article” which states “But how do you quantify concepts as nebulous as beauty or happiness?”. This was located on the first page, fourth paragraph, on the first sentence.

This word wasn’t clear to me but reading the definition it was some what clear to me that the word nebulous meant something relating to. To better explain this word in the sentence “But how do you quantify concepts as nebulous as beauty or happiness?”. What this means this how can people relate to something in there life to a park or a place that they call peaceful. As well the question to ask ourselves is to compare something that we have experience to what we have in front of us.

amorphous – adjective – having no definite form

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amorphous

“across from the airport, just east of the Strip, the whole conglomeration like some strange amorphous triple junction,….” (David L Ulin, Walk with me)

Ulin refers to the area as ever changing, it doesn’t have a definite form.

Conglomeration – noun – a mixed mass or collection

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conglomeration

“across from the airport, just east of the Strip, the whole conglomeration like some strange amorphous triple junction,….” (David L Ulin, Walk with me)

Conglomeration was just another way for david to refer to the area as a whole.

elusive – adjective -hard to comprehend or define

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elusive

“this is how you ground yourself in an elusive, unfamiliar city – on foot, walking it into focus in all it’s specificity and wonder” (David L ulin, walk with me)

Ulin describes how to situate yourself in a “hard to grasp” unfamiliar city. Due to context clues I can see that elusive meant hard to comprehend.

incremental – adjective – of, relating to, being, or occurring in especially small increments

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incremental

“The statue of liberty…. where it stood squat and compressed as I drove past, a facsimile in incremental scale.” (David L. Ulin, Walk with Me)

He describes the statue of liberty as a exact copy of itself, getting smaller and smaller as he drives past.