Putrefy - "Death was once easily recognised by the absence of breathing and heart beat because such people inevitably went on to putrefy." Kind of gross, but it was the only thing that I could find with this word in it. Putrefy will probably be one of those words that I will never use. I will probably just use decay instead.
Salubrious - "Linton had grown tall of his age, still wanting some months of sixteen. His features were pretty yet, and his eye and complexion brighter than I remembered them, though with merely temporary lustre borrowed from the salubrious air and genial sun." This is a quote from Wuthering Heights. I included it because it is a famous book. I might use this word if I need to convince somebody to quite smoking. I could say it is not salubrious to your health.
Succulent - "On my first few visits to Hong Kong, I explored the fabulous universe of Chinese food: Succulent Peking duck, delicate Cantonese, fiery Sichuan, rich Shanghainese, exotic Chiu Chow and that world unto itself, dim sum. It ruined Chinese food at home forever." This is a quote of a guy talking about how good the Chinese food is in China. This is a word that I use often as it is today.
Tundra - "Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a warming climate could make the world's arctic tundra far more susceptible to fires than previously thought." This is another one of those saves the trees topics. I don't know what to think. I guess I would use this word whenever I am talking about the arctic.
Unequivocal - "In a bleak and powerful assesment of the future of the planet, the leading international network of climate change scientists concluded for the first time Friday that global warming was "unequivocal" and that human activity was "very likely" to blame. The warming will continue for hundreds of years, they predicted." This quote is another global warming topic blaming people and not doing anything about it. But I guess they might not be able to do anything. I would use unequivocal when I am trying to prove a point.
Vicissitudes -"The film - written, directed and narrated by documentary filmmaker Martyn Burke, and produced by Frank J. Gaffney Jr. and Alex Alexiev of the Center for Security Policy, a Washington think tank - portrays the vicissitudes of genuine Muslim moderates who support Western freedoms and oppose terror. It also details the lengths to which radicals have gone to suppress their Muslim critics." This is a review or summary of a film about the muslim way of life. I might use this word if I am trying to sound smart. Other than that, I might not use it very much.
Works Cited
Cliffsnotes. “What Does it Mean to Be Salubrious.” Cliffsnotes. 2008. 6 Apr. 2008
James, Jamie. “Travel and Food.” Salon Travel. 2000. 6 Apr. 2008
Rosenthal, Elizabeth. “Global Warming Called Unequivocal.” The Herald Tribune. 2008. 6 Apr. 2008
Tobin, Jonathon. “View From
Wade, Derrick. “The Dis-Integration of Death.” Science Direct. 2002. The Lancet. 6 Apr. 2008
“Warming Climate May Cause Arctic Tundra to Burn.” Science Daily. 2008. Science Daily. 6 Apr. 2008
4 comments:
haha I like how you tell us when you want to use certain words to sound smart, nice. Good your citations look something like mine, I hope I did that right.
Many of these words are useful and make you seem intelligent as you pointed out. My favorite is unequivocal as it is it can be easily used and is a great word in a thesis paper or argument. I think vicissitudes is a word you can use more often than you give it credit. It corresponds with the idea of human life and the constant changes which occur as we grow older.
I found a quote similiar to yours for unequivocal..about global warming. It was smart of you to spilt up the words into two groups instead of looking them all up at once.
I had the same example for unequivocal. I did think that that was a nice usage of the word. It also sounded really smart, which is nice.
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