Ways of Seeing – FYLC Fall 2018

Condominium(noun):

This word was found in the article ” Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt”. In the sentence in which this word was found, it says, ” They also include tract n Jamaica and St.Albans in Queens, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in East Harlem and in Chelsea, where one that encompasses everything from new luxury apartment houses and full-floor Condominium lofts to small, decaying apartment buildings.

The author uses the word Condominium to describe a complex of buildings that individually contain owned apartments or houses.

 

Opulence(noun):

This word was found in the article ” Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt”, written by the author Janny Scott. The sentence says, “They range from Ms.Davis’s neighborhood, where two  public  housing projects bookended a gentrifying corridor of brownstone and row houses, to an area along the beach in Brooklyn where West End Avenue appears to be a stark line of demarcation between the serene old immigrant opulence of Manhattan Beach and the teeming new-immigrant enclave of Brighton Beach.”

The author uses the word opulence to describe the magnificent and luxurious view of  Manhattan Beach.

noun

proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

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Sentence: clearly he would not venture to desend while his enemy moved

verb

annoy continually or chronically

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Sentence: There’s something up lifting about hearing a string instrument when in feeling ragged or harried

verb

Think moodily or anxiously about something

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Sentence: But it is hardly necessary to dwell on so normal an event

Noun

an association of sports teams that organizes matches

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Sentence: when I broke into the big leagues until a month ago. Gary kept in Torah

noun

a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the world

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Sentence: Testing that theory being Saturday right, as the Capitals take on Tampa Boy in another important contest

Disparity(adjective):

This word was found in the article ” Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt”, written by the author Janny Scott.  In the sentence in which the word was written it says, “In the 1990s the disparity in many neighborhoods became more pronounced, census data show.”

The word was used to explain the Difference in many of the neighborhoods became very noticeable or clear.

Noun

an instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of people

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Sentence: his commission to design the building