Project #5

In the beginning of the school year this is what I had to say about my transition from high school to college:
“In my opinion the transition between high school and college hasn’t been that bad for me. It felt the same as transitioning from middle school to high school. First you look for your friends and see if you guys are in the same class, but sadly for me this is the first year I didn’t know anyone in my class and it felt a little awkward. I believe the best part for me is not having classes on … Read More...

Twinge

Noun

a sudden sharp stab of pain

2 : a moral or emotional pang

a twinge of conscience

a twinge of sympathy

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

“Mary-Powel Thomas a former magazine editor who moved from the upper West Side nine years ago because she and her husband could afford to buy a house in Boerum Hill said she too sometimes feels a twinge of embarrassment about living situations”

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Starkly

Adjective

rigid in or as if in death

b : rigidly conforming (as to a pattern or doctrine) : ABSOLUTE

stark discipline

2 archaic : STRONG, ROBUST

3 : UTTER, SHEER

stark nonsense

4a : BARREN, DESOLATE

b(1) : having few or no ornaments : BARE

a stark white room

(2) : HARSH, BLUNT

the stark realities of death

5 : sharply delineated

a stark contrast

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

” In an odd sort of way they’re both one neighborhood and starkly divided said Annelise Orleck … Read More...

Plonk

Verb

to pluck or hit so as to produce a quick, hollow, metallic, or harsh sound

2 : to set down suddenly : PLUMP

intransitive verb

 

1 : to make a plunking sound

2 : to drop abruptly : DIVE

3 : to come out in favor of someone or something : PLUMP —used with for

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

” It doesn’t make sense for someone rich in Los Angeles to plonk themselves down in the middle”… Read More...

Perpetual

Adjective

 continuing forever : EVERLASTING

perpetual motion

b(1) : valid for all time

a perpetual right

(2) : holding something (such as an office) for life or for an unlimited time

2 : occurring continually : indefinitely long-continued

perpetual problems

3 : blooming continuously throughout the season

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

“The city is etched with boundaries and borderlands that appear on no maps areas where income groups intersect overlap collide coexist– along lines drawn and redrawn by quirks of history differences in housing stock patterns of … Read More...

Encompasses

Verb

INCLUDE, COMPREHEND

a plan that encompasses a number of aims

b : ENVELOP

2a : to form a circle about : ENCLOSE

b obsolete : to go completely around

3 : BRING ABOUT, ACCOMPLISH

encompass a task

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

“They also include tracts in Jamaica and St. Albans in Queens in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn in the East Harlem and in Chelsea where one tract encompasses everything from new luxury apartment houses and full floor condominium lofts to small decaying apartment buildings”… Read More...

Opulence

Noun

: WEALTH, AFFLUENCE

the opulence of prerevolutionary monarchs

2 : ABUNDANCE, PROFUSION

an opulence of fruits

Scott, Janny. “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source Of Resentment and Guilt.

” They range from Ms. Davis’s neighborhood where two public housing projects bookend gentrifying corridor of brownstones and row houses to an area along the beach in Brooklyn where West End Avenue appears to be a stark sine of demarcation between the serene old-immigrant opulence of Manhattan Beach and the teemin new-immigrant enclave of Brighton Beach”… Read More...