Amenity (noun): an agreeable way or manner.

“It’s not quite an essential amenity or legally required to open, but it’s nice. It makes customers happy, and make your space feel more like their space” Christopher Mele

To summary amenity, it can be described as a way of saying not necessary. It is not necessary for the coffee shop to provided hotspot for the customers.

1. Communion
2. Pub
3. Auditory
4. Increment
5. Masonry
6. Sans
7. Lucrative
8. Detriment
9. Topography
10. Carousing
11. Contemporary
12. Writ
13. Trans-continential
14. Agitate
15. Sensibility

Throughout this semester, my glossary has been somewhat advantageous in the development of my vocabulary, although there have been some challenging along the way. I certainly possess a deeper understanding of some words that were particularly meaningful to me. I need to develop my vocabulary because it can help in my academics and my career. It can also use some improvement over time. Throughout the year I’d have to look through articles and find words that may have been a challenge to me or I wanted a deeper meaning to it, to use for my glossary. Once I’ve found them, I’d define them by looking for where it came from and the context it was used in. Afterwords Id look up their true meanings on google for a simpler meaning and the Merriam-Webster dictionary for a more academic meaning. However when reading through the articles I find context to be difficult for me because it’s not easy for me to understand a particular word with the rest of the statement. Not using these words throughout the year may have been a detriment to my learning experience. In rare occasions I can assume a meaning to a word based off of its context. I derive benefit from looking up definitions because it helps me build upon my vocabulary skills. In that, I improve on my researching skills, along with my analytical skills. Perhaps in the future, writing sentences using glossary words will enhance my ability to remember words and their definitions because I have done it enough times in my previous English class. Practical experience using words to express ideas that are relevant to my life makes it more like to remember.

• Incremental
•  Arbitrary
• Consensus
• Amorphous
• Philanthropist
• Aesthetic
• Commissions
• Rubble
• Devoid
• Intrinsically
• Subversive
• Conviviality
• Alienating
• Din
• Posited

In my opinion after a while I felt like I kept writing each word the same way so I lost interest in doing the glossary. I will research the word but don’t post it. However, this helped me willingly want to learn new words. I became interested in wanting to search words up and try to understand the content its being used in. I liked the fact that the words were due at the end of the semester so if you are a person that struggle with time management you have enough time to complete it. You also get to see those that chose the same word and how they understood it and learn from everyone’s mistakes. Therefore, this was useful.

Posited (Verb)-  to assume or affirm the existence of.
The content in which the word was used is, “a 2015 thesis by Rose K. Pozos about the “urban sociability” of coffee shops posited that sitting alone with a laptop in a café was not nnecessarily antisocial.”
Article: Coffee Shop Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk.
Therefore, she is saying that coffee shops assume sitting unaccompanied with a laptop in a café is not necessarily antisocial.

Din (noun)- A loud continued noise.
The content in which the word is being used in is, “He said he measured hi success by the din of his shop.”

Article: Coffee Shop Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk

According to merriam-webster.com, the word basically means continuous noise. Therefore, the speaker measures his success by noise extent.

Alienating(verb)- To cause (someone) to feel that she or he no longer belongs in a group, society, etc.
The content in which the word is being used is, “While HotBlack is not the first café to withhold Wi-Fi from the public, industry experts said such shops are in the minority and risk alienating customers.”

Article: Coffee Shop Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk.

With my encounter with the word alienating I thought the word meant to separate the customers from people who want to go to the café for Wi-Fi from those who want to socialize. But, after doing research on merriam-webster.com the definition in two words are to feel unwanted. The speaker did not want anyone to feel unwanted based on no Wi-Fi.

Conviviality (adjective)- Relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company.
The content the word was used in is, “To promote conviviality, other shops have adopted a no Wi-Fi policy and gone a step further:”
Article: Coffee Shops Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk.
When I encountered this word, I tried using context clues but was unable to come up with a definition. So, I searched the word up on merriam-webster.com. In a more basic definition for the word conviviality means being friendly. Therefore, the writer was stating that he’s trying to promote a friendly environment.

Amenity – noun  ame·ni·ty  \ ə-ˈme-nə-tē , -ˈmē- \

Amenity – something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment.

” It’s not quite an essential amenity or legally required to open, but its nice.”

Using context clues in the above sentence, I thought the definition of the word amenity held the same meaning of the juxtapose word next to it “essential”. however seeing to it that their wasn’t the use of the word “or” or apostrophe or semi colon, to show that they held similar meanings, I thought it might have a different meaning. The word amenity Simply means something that’s not needed but bring comfort.