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Public entry Synonym Studies
August 26, 2008 @ 05:11:11 am

I'm bored, and want to get some points, so I thought I might copy some s**t from my dictionary. Yeah, I know, kinda dorky, but dont give me any s**t I've got nothing better to do, and I love these things. So many words are often used out of the proper context. Here I will put words that i feel need clarifcation:

"Clarify-
CONSTRUE, ELUCIDATE, EXPLAIN, EXPLICATE, INTERPRET.
When a biology teacher gets up in front of cla** and tries to explain how two brown-eyed parents can produce a blue-eyed child, the purpose is to make an entire process or sequence of events understandable. In a less formal sense, to explain is to make a verbal attempt to justify certain actions or make them understood. (she tried to explain why she was so late.) That same teacher might clarify a particular exam question- a word that means to make an earlier event, situation, or statement clear. Elucidate is a more formal word meaning to clarify, but where the root of the latter refers to clearness, the root of the former refers to light: to elucidate is to shed light on something through explanation, illustration, etc. (the principal's comments were an attempt to elucidate the school's policy on cheating.) A teacher who explicates something discusses a complex subject in a point-by-point manner (to explicate a poem.) If a personal judgement is inserted in making such an explication, the correct word is interpret (to interpret a poem's symbolic meaning.) To construe is to make a careful interpretation of something, especially where the meaning is ambiguous. For example, when a cla** misbehaves in front of a visitor, the teacher is likely to construe that behavior as an attempt to cause embarrassment or ridicule."

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dickbell


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August 26, 2008 @ 05:45:22 am
Another fun synonym study:

"Naked-
BALD, BARE, BARREN, NUDE.
Someone who isn't wearing any clothes is naked; This adjective is usually associated with revealing a part or all of the body (They found her naked and weak of hunger.) A naked person who appears in a painting or photograph is called a nude, a euphemistic but more socially accepted term referring to the unclothed human body. Bare can can describe the branches of a treeas well as human limbs; it implies the absence of the conventional or appropriate covering (a bare wooden floor; bare legs; four bare walls.) Bald also suggests a lack of covering, but it refers particularly to lack of natural covering, especially hair (a bald head.) Barren, like bald, implies a lack of natural covering, especially vegetation, but it also connotes destitusion and fruitlessness (a barren wasteland that could barely support life.) A bald artist might paint a nude woman whose bare arms are extended against a barren winter landscape.


dickbell


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September 01, 2008 @ 05:20:12 pm
This is one of my favorites:

"Absurd-
FOOLISH, LUDICROUS, PREPOSTEROUS, RIDICULOUS, UNREASONABLE.
We call something absurd when it is utterly inconsistent with what common sense or experience tells us (she found herself in the absurd position of having to defend the intelligence of a cockroach.) Ludicrous applies to whatever is so incongruous that it provokes laughter or scorn (a ludicrous suggestion that he may escape unnoticed if he dressed up as a woman), and ridiculous implies that ridicule or mockery is the only appropriate response (she tried to look younger, but succeeded only in making herself look ridiculous.) Foolish behavior shows a lack of intelligence or good judgement (it was foolish to to keep that much money under a mattress), while unreasonable behavior implies that the person has acted contrary to good sense (his response was totally unreasonable in view of the fact that he asked for their honest opinion.) Preposterous should be reserved for those acts or situations that are glaringly absurd or ludicrous. For example, it might be unreasonable to judge an entire nation on the basis of one tourist's experience, and foolish to turn down an opportunity to visit that country on those grounds alone, but it would be preposterous to suggest that everyone who comes to the United States will be robbed at gunpoint."

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