Glossary – Page 2 – Ways of Seeing

After I finish the glossary assignment, I can feel it realy helps me. Since I was not born in America, my vocabulary is very poor. But this assignment imporves it a lot. By doing the assignment, I need to read a lot of articles and passages. Reading is definitely the best way to increase vocabulary. When I encounter words that I don’t know or I’ve never seen. I need to check the definition of the words in a dictionary or wesbite. By doing this, I not only learn the definition, I also memorise the words. I can also learn more uncommon words by seeing classmates’ glossary posts. Overall, this assignment helps me a lot in improving vocabulary and better memorising words.

facility

noun

an ability to do or learn something well and easily.

Source: Google Definition

I encounter this word while I was reading yesterday’s new on yahoo “Obama says he’ll give Congress last chance on Guantánamo.” Now I understand this word means a skill to learning stuff well and easily. A example for facility is someone would be coming back to take over the facility.

Grievances

noun

a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment.

Source: Google Definition

I encounter this word while I was ready today’s new on Yahoo “Democratic data breach fight set to spill onto N.H. debate stage”. Now I understand this word is a feeling, here is one example of Grievances, she feel grievance when all her friends are against her opinion in the event.

accusations

noun

a charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong.

Source: Google Definition

I encounter this word while I was reading today’s new on yahoo “Democratic data breach fight set to spill onto N.H. debate stage” Now I understand that this word means a not necessary a punishment a charge for someone who did something illegal or wrong. A example for accusation is the history of this accusation is by no means clear.

Fundraiser

noun

a person whose job or task is to seek financial support for a charity, institution, or other enterprise.

Source: Google Definition

I encounter this word while I was reading today’s yahoo news “Democratic data breach fight set to spill onto N.H. debate stage” Now I understand this word is like to describe a person who donates stuff.

obligation

noun

an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment.

Source: Google Definition

I encounter this word while I was talking to my friends, and now I understand this word means a responsibility. A example of obligation is teacher’s obligation is to teach the students what they suppose to learn.

indoctrinate

verb

to teach (someone) to fully accept the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group and to not consider other ideas, opinions, and beliefs

(source-Merriam-Webster)

I encounter this word in the reading “The virtue of idleness”. The word is found in the sentence “Parents begin the brainwashing process and then school works yet harder to indoctrinate young people with the necessity of early rising.” After I look it up in the dictionary, I now understand it means to teach someone to fully accept the ideas.

cinema

noun

the art or technique of making movies

(source-Merriam-Webster)

I encounter this word in the reading “The death of Art and the birth of pop”. The word is found in the sentence “When the working classes got the vote and a right to an education, and when cinema and television developed in the twentieth century a new cultural space opened up which completely re-defined what mattered and what didn’t.” After I look it up in the dictionary, I now understand it means the art or technique of making movies.

Glossary Write-Up

After doing all of these glossary words it really helped me out. Doing these words help me broaden my vocabulary. If I didn’t do some of the readings I would probably still not know what half the words I read mean. Looking up word can help you out in the long run because when you do search up the words you can get a better understanding of it and you can use the word in the future on a essay you are writing or a conversation you are having. Having all the other classmates post other words I may have missed or words that I thought I knew but turns out I was completely wrong about the words definition.

Slum

sləm/

noun

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

synonyms:

hovel, rathole;

ghetto, shantytown, skid row, shacktown

“this is the slum we call home”

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.

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Fundraiser

obligation

indoctrinate

cinema

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