incredulous – unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true

adjective  in·cred·u·lous  \ (ˌ)in-ˈkre-jə-ləs , -dyə-ləs \

I came across this word in Colson’s Whitehead article called ” City Limits”. My first assumption when I saw the word was that its prefix “in” meant “not”. When I researched the definition I saw that I was on the right track. Now for the credulous part, It had something to do with how ” credible” something was. Initially I thought that my second assumption was incorrect however that was wrong. The word incredulous (in my opinion) can be related to the word credible, seeing to it that incredulous meant unwilling to accept and credible meant true, Incredible simply means to see or act like a credible truth is oblivious or not true.

Parameters- (1) any of a set of physical properties whose values determine the characteristics or behavior of something

2)an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves); also : a quantity (such as a mean or variance) that describes a statistical population

While reading the outline for project 4, I circled the word parameter. In the sentence that the word was written, I assumed that the word meant “aspects” or part. While that assumption wasn’t necessarily wrong, it didn’t give the whole accurate definition of the word. In my own words, parameter is basically means a variety of different factors or things around you that might cause a reaction.

scaffolding (noun) -a system of scaffolds; also : material for scaffolds

2) a temporary structure on the outside of a building, made usually of wooden planks and metal poles, used by workers while building, repairing, or cleaning the building.

This term was used by the professor in previous days of class. I have written down the word on one of the rubrics for project four in hopes of getting back to it. When a research the definition of scaffolding it basically restate the name of the without, minus the suffix. That definition didn’t seem to further my understanding. Therefore I googled the term and felt I little more comfortable with its meaning. In my own define scaffolding is the resources used for scaffolds. A scaffold is a wooden or metal pole movable equipment that many workers use while they build, fix, or clean the outside part of a building.