Tag: Definitions

Verb

• to enhance or try to enhance the price, value, or status of by organized and usually governmental action
• to assign value or merit to

Source:  Merriam-Webster

I found this word while reading a part of the Universe Strikes Back by Ellen Lupton. It can be found on the first page of the reading where it says, “Modernism sought a common language built on systems and modularity in contrast, the post-modernists valorized the special idioms and dialects of cultures and subcultures.” To me this shows how the post-modernists gave value to the idioms and dialects of other cultures.

noun / cos·mo·pol·i·tan

the ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality.

(SOURCE – Wikipedia)

This word was found in the reading Univers Strikes Back, “the Princeton philosopher and ethicist born and raised in Ghana, has questioned the values of multiculturalism in the name of a new “cosmopolitanism,” literally, “world citizenship.”  Now I understand that this word means a thought that all human had same by sharing morality.

adjective

not expressed or understood clearly

(SOURCE – Merriam Webster)

this word  was encounter in class COMD 1100 on September 2, 2015. Now I understand that the word is to describe something that is not easy to understand, or that thing is not express its self in a direct way.