Vivian

Word: Intermittent

Context encountered

“It introduced infectious diseases epidemics, social stratification, intermittent famines, and large –scale war”

1. Going through intense times, period of time, in between

2. starting, stopping, and starting again : not constant or steady

3. school classes are starting in intermittent hours

4. interrupted, periodical, seasonal, broken, discontinuous

5. A=not homo =same

Word: Anomalous

Context: if your theory is indeed superior , it must explain both the “normal’ data by the old theory and the anomalous data explained by the old theory”

Possible definition: new unpredictable data

Group: adjective related anomaly, abnormal, strange, rare

Definition: deviating from what is slandered, normal or expected

Apply meaning: the modern pianists has an anomalous strategies for creating melody

Relating meaning: weird, bizarre, abnormal

Word you do not fully understand: Ravenous

1. “I’m ravenous, so I dive into the scrum and snatch up some meat”- The Hadza Michael Finkel (Context Encountered)

2. Very hungry (Possible Definition)

3. Has to do with hunger and the act of having it (Discuss the Word)

4. Extremely hungry; voracious; Rapacious predatory (Dictionary Definition)

5. I was ravenous so I stole the food. (Apply Meaning)

Famished; starving; rapacious, famished, intensely eager (Related Meanings

(context encountered) 

“I’d learned this funny from my aforementioned third best friend, Peter Van Houten….” 

Aforementioned

2.) (Possible Definition)

Previously mentioned, beforehand…

3.) (class discussion) 

not close, previous, hardly known

4.) (dictionary defintion)

denoting a thing or person previously mentioned mentioned before : spoken about or named earlier

5.) when I was absent in the room my friend aforementioned me to her cousin

6)prior, past, former

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