Motivational Quote

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need."- Voltaire

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Vocabulary

 Menacingly (Ad verb)


Definition: something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.
Source of Sentence:  ...-a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved int o the pockets of a bulky military jacket-seemed menacingly close.


Context Clue: "Your Logic" the description of the tall man seems pretty threatening, and if someone would be that close to you, it would almost seem of bad intention.


Sentence: Seeking revenge to her sister, she menacingly broke inter her room and read her diary. 



Quarry (Noun)



Definition: an animal or bird hunted or pursued.

Source of Sentence: ...she found herself the quarry of a mugger, a rapist, or worse. 


Context Clue: "Your Logic" "she" would obviously be a target for a rapist or a mugger.


Sentence: The hunters had to keep quiet, for the quarry was sensitive to sound.




Wayfarer (noun)


Definition: a traveler, esp. on foot.

Source of Sentence: Suffering a bout of insomnia, however, I was stalking sleep, not defenseless wayfarers.


Context Clues: "example" "your logic" He plays with words, talking about wanting "stalking" sleep, not stalking defenseless people.


Sentence: The streets were crowded with wayfarers, in result of the strike against high prices of the public transportation.

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