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Perception

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Perception (noun) :  a mental image : concept

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

” What If You Could Choose Between The Most Fastest Route and The Most Beautiful”  Lex Berko

” In order to control for other factors that might influence their perception, such as weather or time of day, the participants did not actually walk the routes, but evaluated them based on their knowledge of the city”

I knew the concept of this word, but I never really paid attention to truly understand the word and its meaning. When I first encountered the word, I had a feeling that it meant the other factors could influence their view and after finding out the definition I know that I had a good idea of what the word meant but I can understand the sentence and future sentences even better, because it helps me understand that it’s a mental image.

 

correlated

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correlate

noun  cor·re·late  \ ˈkȯr-ə-lət , ˈkär- , -ˌlāt 
When either of the two things so related that one directly implies or is.
where I first encounter the word Correlate is in the city tech reading for the class in the what if you could choose between the fastest route and the most beautiful. Once I encountered the word correlated immediately tried to put it in a sentence and use It they way that they used it but I still didn’t quite understand the meaning of the word . When I look the word correlate up and I use the word correlated into a sentence I think I understand what the word now means to correlate when two things go together. The sentence I used for the word correlate was those emails correlates directly to me getting a new position. I now fairly underatsnd what the word mean and I can use it in a sentence and when I encounter the word again I will not get confused about what the word now menas.

Algorithms

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Algorithm(noun): a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem.

“We quantify how people psychologically perceive the urban environment, and using existing algorithm, we identify pleasurable detours.”

As I was reading the article, I came across this word algorithm. I was searching through my memories and noticed that I’ve never heard of the word. I tried using context clue while reading it over and over again and I couldn’t came up with a guess. After searching up the word, the sentence makes more sense for me. We quantify how people psychologically perceive the urban environment, and using existing set of rule, we identify pleasurable detours.

Commonalities, Nebulous, Amenities

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Commonality (noun): sharing of common contributions 

“And yet, the commonalities – from the chains to the sprawl….” — Walk with me

I encounter the word commonalities when I was reading “Walk with me”. The first word I see in it is common. I thought it might be something related to having common things or could be common interest. After I search up the definition, it matches the definition that I came up with.

 

Nebulous (adjective): lacking definite form or limits

” – from the chains to the sprawl, the nebulous lack of center, the insistence each city offers that we must make up as we go alone.”

When I was looking at this word, I couldn’t connect it with anything, context club wasn’t helping me. Without any guessing I took the word to dictionary.com. After reading the definition, the sentence is more understandable. “Something thats nebulous is clouded or hazy like the forest you walk through in a foggy morning.”

 

Amenities (noun):  things that make you comfortable and at ease.

“I have always live within walking distance of the basic amenities: bank, mini-mart, coffe shop, bar.”

While reading the sentence, the context club short of helped me defining the word. Bank, mini-mart, coffee shop and bar are all stores and buildings. I was thinking amenities is building or things related. The real definition of it is things that makes you comfortable, which kind of mean feelings in my opinion.

conglomeration

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conglomeration

noun con·glom·er·a·tion \ kən-ˌglä-mə-ˈrā-shən is the state of being conglomerate a mixed mass of collection . where I first seen this word was in the class reading of walk with me. is where I saw this word I tried to read the paragraph over to see if I understood what the word means but I still could not understand the word so I decide to look the word conglomeration up which I still really didn’t understand until they used in in a sentence for me where I could understand the word conglomeration because the first definition they gave me I really didn’t understand what the word meant the first definition still had confused me some the first  definition was to be in a state of conglomerate which means what literally . So when I went to look the word up further and used it in a sentence I think I may understand the word a little better then before .
ok going to try to use it in a sentence to make sure I understand the word that is a beautiful conglomeration of flowers {meaning a lot of flowers a conglomeration of } so now that I understand the word I can use it in a sentence and now when I see the word I am not confused by the word.

Impediment

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Impediment (noun): a hindrance or obstruction in doing something.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/impediment

“It saw you steeling yourself for the job interview, slowly walking home after the late date, tripping over nonexistent impediments on the sidewalk”

I encountered the word “impediment” while reading an article that we are currently reading in class, “City Limits” by Colson Whitehead. The word is a noun so its used to identify a person, place, or thing. While trying to gain an understanding from context clues I thought to myself ” tripping over nonexistent impediments…” , it must be something that blocks a person from doing something. It was obvious the author was using figurative language to exaggerate his thoughts. You can use the word “impediment” to describe something that is making it more difficult for you to do something. For example, “My broken wrist is the impediment preventing me from finishing my new novel.”

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Braggart

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Braggart (noun)  : a loud arrogant boaster

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

Colsen Whitesead, “City Limits” from The Colossus of New York, page 2

“Except for that bit about the Dutch buying Manhattan for 24 bucks–there are and always will be braggarts who “got in at the right time””

When i first read the sentence I just thought of someone who bragged a lot but I did not think that there was a phrase of something for that. I would just rephrase the sentence so that i could say “someone who brags”. Now I could use that word and it helps to understand the text better instead of just guessing the meaning

affectation

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affectation

noun  af·fec·ta·tion  \ ˌa-ˌfek-ˈtā-shən \
affectation the act of taking on or displaying an attitude or mode of behavior not natural  to ones self not genuinely felt . Speaking honestly without affectation mocked his plenty as affectation.

I came across the word affectation  in the reading of Colson whitehead city limits.
when I came across the word when I was reading it I didn’t quite understand how that word fit into the sentence that’s what made me look up the word to help me understand the meaning of it and why he used that word for that sentence.
once I looked the word up and I used the word in my own definition I now not what the word means and how to us it the correct way. The affectation of his different language. so I used the word in a sentence that would help me to understand what the word means.

Bewilderments

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Bewilderments (noun): a confusing maze or tangle, as of objects or conditions

“It saw the bewilderment on your face as you stepped out of the stolen matinee, incredulous that there was still daylight after such a long movie.” City Limits -Colson Whitehead.

I encounter the word bewilderments while I was reading City Limits by Colson Whitehead. I’ve never heard or ever seen the word before so it’s pretty brand new to me. I saw the word “wild” in it and thought it might be related to being crazy since we use wild to describe someone or something that’s gone insane. However, the meaning I thought is it different than what it actually mean. The sentence is clearer after replacing bewilderments with confusion in the definition; “it saw the confusion on your face as you stepped out of the stolen matinee.”

Example: There was bewilderments on her face during the meeting.

Diatribe

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Diatribe (Noun) : a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing.

I was confronted with this word while reading McGrath Charles. “A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport.”

“Will Self’s new novel, “The Book of Dave” (Bloomsbury USA), is about a London cabdriver who inadvertently founds a religion when a ranting diatribe he buries in the garden of his ex-wife is dug up five centuries later, in a now post-apocalyptic world, and becomes a sacred text.”

This was the first time i encountered this word so i didn’t know the meaning at all. When I looked up the word i found three definitions however they weren’t that alike. So i substituted the definitions into the context the word was included in. I also used the examples “The article is a diatribe against mainstream media.” and “a bitter diatribe about how unfair the tax system is” to demonstrate the word and found “A bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing” to be the more accurate definition of the word.