Day: December 19, 2015

sləm/

noun

1. 1.

a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.

I came across this word during my reading of Barney Collier’s Book. I have an idea of what this word meant before I read the actual definition because of the definition I did on the word Ghetto, but a slum is just a crowded place where the poor/lower class people live.

[verb ad-vuh-keyt; noun ad-vuh-kit, -keyt]

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verb (used with object), advocated, advocating.

1.to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument;recommend publicly:

He advocated higher salaries for teachers.

noun

2.a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person,cause, etc. (usually followed by of):

an advocate of peace.

3. a person who pleads for or in behalf of another; intercessor.
4. a person who pleads the cause of another in a court of law.

After coming across this word during my reading of Barney Collier’s Book I had no idea what this word meant until I took the time out to look up the definition. This word basically means to argue for or against something in a negative or positive way.

[mang-guh l]

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verb (used with object), mangled, mangling.

1.

to injure severely, disfigure, or mutilate by cutting, slashing, orcrushing:

The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine.

2.

to spoil; ruin; mar badly:

to mangle a text by careless typesetting.

During my reading of Barney Collier’s Book. I had an idea of what this word meant but not a full idea. Now that I read the definition I see that the word means to mess something up or to disfigure something.

re·volt

rəˈvōlt/

verb

past tense: revolted; past participle: revolted

cause to feel disgust.

“he was revolted by the stench that greeted him”

I came across this word during the reading of Barney Collier’s Book. This word basically means when you feel a bad way about something or you don’t like something.

[trib-yoon, trih-byoon]

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noun

1.

a person who upholds or defends the rights of the people.

I found this word from the excerpt of Barneys Collier’s Book. After reading the definition I understand why it’s called the New York Herald Tribune. This is because the New York Herald Tribune because it gives out the news that would help people out.