Sunday, March 13, 2011

vocabulary #4

inevitable -(adj,n) the unthinkable, cannot be avoided
-" She never took it off, not even  in the classroom, and so it was inevitable that she took some teasing about it."(p.10)
- Since death is inevitable, Jo planned his funeral at 15. For instance he wants to burioed next to his grandfather and his collection of baseball caps will be sold.
- 'your logic' I learned the word from highschool, mostly discussed in the novel 'The Stranger,' and I remember the words'inevetibality of life.' Upon learning that I mostly associate the word with life because there is no exact meaning of and the definiton of 'inevitable' is cannot be avoided, unthinkable.

detrimental -( adj, n) dangerous, hazardous, harmful
- "The hippocampus is important in the formation of new long-term memories and this may have detrimental effect on learning the effectiveness of treatments for these children."
-Smoking and alcohol is detrimental to the health.
-'your logic'& 'synonym' I have always heard the phrase "smoking is dangerous to your health" recently I have been hearing "smoking is detrimental to your health" as well, so I figure theyre synonym.


eustress- (n.) 'positive' stress, giving the feeling of fullfillment
-"eustress, which results from postive vents: marriage, job promotion , having a baby..."(p.433)
- After I graduated from college and received my Bachelor's degree, all the stresses from late night studying, homework etc became eustress.
-'antonym'&'your logic' since theres stress there has to be a positive or antonym of it which is eustress and I knew the word "euphoria" means being happy so, I relate the two words which have "eu-" as prefixes which means "well" in greek.

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