Skepticism

noun
: an attitude of doubting the truth of something (such as a claim or statement)
Source – merriam-webster
I encountered this word from the news ” Ancient human ancestor may have persisted through Ice Age” by Kerry Sheridan. I looked at the sentence “….. they were greeted with skepticism by some scientists.” Now I have an idea of this word means when I search in the dictionary. Even though this word may be not common to use at the class, but useful to describe of the real life.

dishevelled

adjective

to throw into disorder or disarray

I encounter this word in the article “What we’ve lost”. The word is found in the sentence “A few moments later, my younger brother (we’ll call him E) joined me – dishevelled, disgruntled and half asleep.” By konwing the word means to throw into disorer, I better understan the situation that the author is describing.

 

Symmetrical

Adjective

: having sides or halves that are the same
: having or showing symmetry

Source – merriam-webster

I found the word of the field trips at the Cooperhewitt, when I looked at the didactic panel of the Spun 2007-11, I saw this word of the title. ” Can a rotationally symmetrical form make a comfortable chair?” Since I learned the word “asymmetrical”, it was the other way of learning the opposite word.

Querulous

Adjective
: complaining in an annoyed way
synonyms: petulant, peevish, pettish, complaining
Source – merriam-webster
I encountered this word from the article “Brooklyn was mine.”. ” She also had a habit of footnoting words whose meanings Alfred might not know — like querulous — and providing definitions.” This word of the  sentence show the feeling of the character, that will help reader more understand of the story.

Declamation

declaim verb
: to say (something) in usually a loud and formal way
Source – merriam-webster
I encountered this word from the article “Lecture Me. Really” by Molly Worthen. “A lecture is not the declamation of an encyclopedia article.” I know this word probably noun of this sentence. When I know the meaning of this word, I laugh a whole time. I always say that word with my friend but using in Chinese version.

Evaluating Glossary

Oscillate
Inextricable
Braggarts
Endearment
Commit
Mitigate
Querulous
Consensus

Nebulous
Gist
Amid
Didactic
Bucolic
Quirk
AP Wire Service
Exasperate

The glossary assignment for the semester was very effective in helping me. It made me understand each words, with meaning and the use of parts of speech wise. It definitely helped me in the process of reading, however other than reading the article provide to us, it did not. I do not mean that it didn’t help me, however I actually had no time reading such other materials. By checking the definition, on Merriam-Webster which I thought it would be the best dictionary source, it showed me a clear view on each vocabulary. One of the definition was found from the use of Thesaurus because I wanted to discover new words that had a similar meaning, I believe that using other resource and different dictionary might be just sufficient resource, like google define for a quick search. There was many vocabulary words that contained two definition for a single word, I learned that I had to make sure which one best fits the sentence as a whole. By coordinating with my classmates for this crowd-sourced project, it made a resourceful site and it helped others build on to their vocabulary. In addition, this project will going to help me in the future where I probably need so that I can be more professional speaker and writer. This project felt and united as a being in a community, such we done in the COMD class for the humument project where we picked our single significant page that meant each to us and the class didactic post for the presentation downstairs.

aristocracy

noun

the highest social class in some countries : the people who have special titles (such as dukeand duchess ), who typically own land, and who traditionally have more money and power than the other people in a society

(source-Merriam-Webster)

I encounter this word in the reading “Anatomy of Fascism”. I found the word in the sentence ” There was a huge disparity between the riches of the aristocracy and the poverty of those working on the land or in the cities”. After I look it up in the dictionary, I know it means the highest social class in some countries.

Simultaneous

Adjective
: happening at the same time

Source – merriam-webster

I encountered this word from the article “Lecture Me. Really” by Molly Worthen. The sentence of ” It keeps students’ minds in energetic and simultaneous action.” simultaneous will be the difficult word for me to understand the meaning of the sentence. When I searched this word on the dictionary, first time I knew this word mean and how to used it in the sentence, it was helpful.

Slumlord

Noun
: a person who owns a building with apartments that are in bad condition and rents them to poor people.
Source – merriam-webster
I came this word in the reading excerpt, “The Boston Photographs” . When I saw at the sentence ” …the Boston pictures sowed the dangers of fire escapes and raised questions about slumlords.” I guess this word may mean places or person, after I looked at the dictionary. Definitely my guess is right, now I have an idea of this word means.

Glossary Journey

Aft

Anomalies

Contemporary

Deterrent

Hokum

Memorabilia

Misanthrope

Ordain

Perilous

Prodigious

Sensationalist

Superfluous

Theologians

Vice

Zany

While working on this glossary throughout the course I noticed there was a lot of words I felt I knew the definition to. In reality if I was to be tested on those words I would’ve probably failed. Some of these words that are listed I had that feeling of maybe knowing  what it meant. The other words I just didn’t know What they meant or it was my first time encountering the word. Before I posted my word on to the glossary, I would look through the dashboard to see if it was already claimed by another student. Some of these words that I’ve encountered had multiple definitions so I gave all the definitions but stated which definition was related towards the text that I found the word in. For every word, I gave my understanding not only in the word but also in the author’s text. With this glossary, it made me really think about the words I don’t know instead of just giving up on them because I did not know their meaning. I believe the words I searched for not only helped expand my vocabulary but also helped out my fellow peers. Every time I would see my word on the glossary I would have another word I could learn its definition. This glossary project made the learning of words feel like a community. Each week there was a new word to be learned, not only from me providing a word but the other students providing their words as well.