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The word of the day comes from the very beginning of Elizabeth George's new mystery: Careless in Red. Inspector Lynley is on the forty-third day of his solitary walking tour--an effort to cope with his wife's recent death. He sees a solitary surfer and realizes they have a kinship in choosing to be alone: " He knew nothing about surfing, but he knew a fellow cenobite when he saw one." cenobite-- a member of a religious community .jpg) |
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| pecuniary--of or relating to moneyThe word of the day comes from the 2004 Advanced Placement literature tests where students were challenged by a Henry James passage from one of his short stories. A tutor interviews for a job because, "as yet one's... Read More |
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| dilatory--tending or intended to cause delayThis word of the day is also a Shakespearean quote: I abhor this dilatory sloth. (Henry VIII) I have found students to be dilatory in the completion of their work, but I have also found that teachers are often... Read More |
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| The word of the day is remuneration--pay or recompense.Teachers go into the profession knowing that remuneration will be secondary as a reward for their efforts. A teacher's major recompense is always intangible.... Read More |
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| The Word of the Day comes from yesterday's New York Times Book Review of Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem.transmute--the change from one form or state to another"Jiang Rong seems to have barely attempted to transmute his experiences and epiphanies into... Read More |
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| This is not a quote by Shakespeare, but one by Samuel Pepys, who also lived in the 17th century. Pepys kept a comprehensive diary and had this to say the day after he saw Romeo and Juliet in 1662: March 1st--To the Opera and there saw Romeo... Read More |
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| Avatar-an embodiment of a philosophy or idea--often used as an electronic image representing a conceptToday's word my husband uses all the time. (It's always scary when the person you live with uses a term you don't quite understand!)Avatars are important... Read More |
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| serendipity--the phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.In my post on "Endings," I used the term serendipity and realized it was a great word of the day. Many of you already know the word, but it's worthwhile to... Read More |
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| preternatural--beyond what is natural, extraordinaryI looked for inspiration for my Word of the Day in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a novel that contains nearly every vocabulary word that has ever appeared on the SAT. As Hester is being ridiculed... Read More |
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| gnomon-- a parallelogram with a replica of itself missingMy students' eyes rolled back in their heads when they heard of the significance of the word gnomon in James Joyce's Dubliners. Joyce's characters all have a section of their lives and hearts missing,... Read More |
Erica Jacobs
Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.
Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.
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