Vocab on the Internet

mAttenuate - "Regular use of a hand cream can attenuate skin dryness and roughness caused by frequent hand washing." I thought that this was pretty interesting. I didn't think that you could wear your skin down that much by washing your hands. I guess you could use this word while working on making any type of craft that needs sanding.

Behemoth - "I have traveled many miles by air during my working life and the A380 symbolyzes all the worst aspects of air travel. Overcrowded passenger areas, lugage delays, security farces, and lines of people for every service, from toilets to rental cars. I wonder if the marketers ever asked any passengers before they came up with this behemoth of an airplane." This is about the gigantic airbus plane. This guy obviously does not like it at all. This word would be pretty easy to use. Anytime you want to describe something huge, this word would be perfect.

Disinter - "Southern Baptist officials today denounced efforts by leaders of a small south Georgia church to disinter the body of a mixed-race baby who was buried last week in the church's all-white cemetery." This I find disgraceful. I can't believe that some crazy baptists are going to dig up an infant because it is not white. Unbelievable. I don't think that I would ever use this word. I would just say dig up a body. Too many people I think would not know what it means.

Impinge - "Shoulder impingement syndrome is caused by compression of the tendons of the rotator cuff between a part of the shoulder blade and the head of the humerus. This can become a chronic inflammatory condition that may lead to a weakening of the tendons of the rotator cuff, a situation that may result in a torn rotator cuff." This peaked my curiosity because it sounds like it could be an injury from baseball. It also sounds pretty painful. This word could be used very often. Whenever someone or something gets to close say, "hey your inmpinging me again.

Multifarious - "Euglena Light-Harvesting Complexes Are Encoded by Multifarious Polyprotein mRNAs that Evolve in Concert." This was one of the only site that I could find this word on that was not a dictionary site. I have no idea what this sentence means. All I know is that it has something to do with chromosomes and biology. I don't think that this word will be very useful later in my life.

Oxymoron - " The juxtaposition of two contradictory ideas is oxymoron, from the Greek words for "sharp" and "foolish." Everybody's favorite examples are facetious ("military intelligence"), but poets can often use oxymoron for striking effects (such as Milton's "darkness visible")." This quote is mostly a definition but it also gave me where the word came from. Also, military intelligence is kind of funny. Maybe. Whatever, I use this word from time to time.

Plenitude - "CFD Elettronica's Plenitude Premium is an embedded Linux-based home intrusion detection system with cameras tripped by infrared sensors. It includes 32 fully wireless sensors with a claimed battery life of three years, and can send images to mobile phones using any of three wireless protocols." This is an advertisement for some security system. Maybe they mean the there is an ample amount of protection. I can see using this word more frequently in the future.

Postulate - "The theory of special relativity can be derived formally from a small number of postulates. The fundamental postulates of special relativity can be expressed in various ways; you may find different versions of them in different books." This quote just says that the theory of special relativity is made up of several postulates or hypothesis. I might use this word is AP Bio or AP Physics next year.

Works Cited

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Koziol, Adam G, and Dion G Durnford. “Molecular Biology and Evolution.” Oxford Journals. 2008. Oxford Journals. 6 Apr. 2008 .

Lynch, Jack. “Oxymoron.” Oxymoron. Rutgers University. 6 Apr. 2008 .

Matlack, Carol. “Airbus’ Behemoth Hits Turbulence.” BusinessWeek. 14 June 2006. BusinessWeek. 6 Apr. 2008 .

Medical Internet Solutions. “Shoulder Impingment Syndrome.” Shoulder Solutions. 2001. Medical Internet Solutions. 6 Apr. 2008 .

Nature.com. “Commensal anaerobic gut bacteria attenuate inflammation by regulating nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling of PPAR-big gamma and RelA.” Nature Immunology. 21 Dec. 2003. Nature.com. 6 Apr. 2008 .

“The Postulates of Special Relativity.” The Postulates of Special Relativity. 1998. University of Colorado. 6 Apr. 2008 .

Sack, Kevin. “Anger Over Effort to Disinter An Infant of Mixed Race.” The New York Times. 6 Apr. 2008. The New York Times. 6 Apr. 2008 .