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"A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker." ~Henry Hazlitt (Thinking as a Science)

​Vocabulary Illustrations

Often, you will have to be descriptive in your writing so that the reader can visualize what you are trying to say. The following is an example of the expectation:

Choose one (1) word from your Membean vocabulary list and write an illustration of the definition without using the word. Write the word and part of speech in parentheticals after your example.

Ex.: Vocabulary Word = Beautiful

Illustration: This morning’s sunrise was breathtaking. The rays of red, pink and orange waltzed with the dark blue and purple twilight sky until it became a single melody of brilliance. The glistening reflection of the sun tangoing on the ocean was the crescendo. (Beautiful; adj.)

Ex.: Vocabulary Word = Generic

Illustration: When the package arrived it was in a plain, brown wrap. Nothing spectacular. No fancy writing nor even an identifying post mark. I opened it. The contents inside was also very unassuming. Plain. Just like...me. (Generic; adj.)


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