As several of you noted in your one-on-one conferences with me, you would like to expand your vocabulary–not only as an intellectual exercise unto itself, but as a way to develop a “treasure chest” of words to use in your essays and research papers: words that will help you out of the rabbit hole of repeating the same word; words that foreground more precisely the idea or point you are trying to convey, and so forth. I will list these words ~ and definitions ~ on the new page on this site, titled, “New Vocabulary.” However, since the only page you can type entries on is the Blog Page, I ask you to do the following on the Blog Page ~ as a “comment” to my post:
- List a word you have come across in your readings that is confusing or potentially intriguing.
- Offer a new word and one or two of its definitions (citing Merriam-Webster, OED, etc. as sources for the definition)
From your additions in the comments section on this post, I will add the vocabulary words to our growing 🙂 list. This list will be housed under the “New Vocabulary” page on our site.
