Monthly Archives: December 2017

Wrapping It Up

 

This glossary project was not hard to accomplish if I had finished it the right way. Instead because of all the projects and keeping up with other classes I had often forgotten about the glossary and I would see new words but thought it would take too long to make the post about them. Throughout the class itself, it was not hard to understand the most of the words by either using context clues or when we searched it up together as a class. Throughout the semester, finding and searching for new words not even for the glossary but for my own knowledge has allowed me to look at the words differently. In the sense of where the word originated from and what are some ways by focusing either on the prefix or suffix to figure out the word. It affected my reading process because usually, I would just glance over the words and not focus on figuring out the meaning behind the word itself, but instead either not to pay any mind to the word or just to use context clues whether wrong or right. One part throughout this project that was kind of hard was to not repeat words because originally I know that was the goal of the project although I tried very hard one of the words that I wrote down was a repeated word but that was because I had already had it written down. One thing I would have done differently would be to actually manage the project along with other assignments, for example, I could have done the summary and the same time that I was completing that I could have input some of the glossary words instead of doing them within the last few days. Although it was something that didn’t hold the center of my focus during the semester it did help with figuring out the definitions of unknown words better and understanding them in a different context as well.

Gloaming

Noun

Twilight

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

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“in the gloaming, the three boiler towers rise from a field of mirrors that glimmer kike an aricifial lake”

When I first read this i thought the author was referring the water glowing but with the definition i realized that gloaming referred to the time of day. Using the definition i can understand that it was twilight during this scene.

mayhem

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

mayhem – noun

Definition: needless or willful damage or violence

“But their are simple easy ways to avoid these big crowds and getting to your destination without the mayhem and maybe grabbing something quick to eat.”

I think that this definition is a bit to literal and explanatory. With this word i think you have to be a little bit vague for the definition. To me when I hear the word mayhem i think of the word crazy and disaster. One example of mayhem would be The port authority was filled with mayhem earlier today.

Stab

Noun

a wound produced by a pointed object or weapon

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

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” have taken a mathematical stab at qualifying NYC’s geographical happiness.”

when i read this for the fir time I didn’t understand the context stab was being used for. After looking at the definition i see that its not referring to a wound but to a risk at an objective. The paragraph was trying to say that the New England Complex System had taken a risk by taking this objective.

grasp

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

Grasp – verb

Definition: to take or seize eagerly

“Living in New York people grasp certain habits and often lose sight of the setting around them as if they’re wearing blinders.”

While reading a peers project I came across this word. When I hear the word grasp I think of the word understanding. For example the student grasped the topic. I learned that The word can be taken into a literal or figurative sense.

captivating

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

captivating – verb

Definition: to influence and dominate by some special charm, art, or trait and with an irresistible appeal.

“Everyone is always chasing after something, many people don’t understand what they are looking for is right in there face, but that’s the way its suppose to be, no one ever knows what the next moment is, that’s what is so captivating about nature because things are suppose to be that way for a reason.”

After reading my classmates work from project 4. A lot of these words are words that we all know but cant give an exact definition to. I used context clues and thought about the word fascinate and charm. This word is a lot more understandable now that I have the definition. One example would be The player captivated his audience with that dunk.

 

Counterintuitive

Counterintuitive(adjective): contrary to what one would intuitively expect

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

” Coffee Shop Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk”

” HotBlack, which has seating for 58, gained the recent attention of the Canadian news media for its counterintuitive approach”

In this article, I saw this word and I just paid attention to the length of the word and how hard it would be to try to understand and break down each part of the word. I saw the prefix counter and I knew that would be the objective of whatever the statement was stated. But I originally didn’t grasp the understanding of intuitive which lead me to another search that discussed the things based off of one’s feelings without conscious reasoning. Now I understand the word better than seeing just a big word that was hard to understand.

spiritually

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

Spiritually – adjective

Definition:of, relating to, consisting of, or affecting the spirit

“Walking meditation By 

I came across this word from reading a classmates essay for project 4 and i came across this word. I used complex clues to try to figure out what it means and i thought of mentally. After looking up the meaning im still having trouble trying to make a sentence with this word.

 

Seldom

Seldom(adverb):  in few instances: rarely, infrequently

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

” Coffee Shop Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk” Christopher Mele

” Into all things digital that leads people too seldom communicate face to face”

I have encountered this word many times, and have barely paid any attention to it because I never really had to. But in this sense, it makes a lot of sense as to why the author decided to use the word in the phrase he put it in. This sentence makes more sense when you understand the word that was used. Now knowing this word will help with the future references.

Immersion

Immersion(noun): absorbing involvement

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

” Coffee Shops Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk” Christopher Mele

” He said he did not see his approach as revolutionary but as a response to society’s deep immersion into all things digital”

When reading this article, I just used the context clues at first to understand the meaning of being involved in the digital things when dealing with society. When finding out the meaning of the word, I realized that although I could have figured the meaning using context clues it still was valuable to find out the actual meaning of the word because it provided a better understanding.