Vocab.

Tangible: (Adj)

Definition: Capable of being touched

Source Sentence- At one point he had enrolled in the junior college in his hometown, but the course work he said seemed too abstract, too distant, with nothing real or tangible at stake, certainly not the stakes of a war.

The Context Clue Synonym tells me that with nothing real or tangible at stake, is the opposite of the definition Capable of being touched, or real.


Original Sentence: I know that becoming a probation officer is very tangible in my future.



Feigned: (Adj)


Definition: Pretended; sham; counterfeit, assumed fictitious, disguised


Source Sentence: The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference.


Context Clue: The context clue example shows me that through jumping from self pity to anger to irony to guilt that he is trying to disguise the indifferance emotions he is going through.


Original Sentence: I used to use feigned money back in the day to buy all my drugs when I was in my addiction.


Catharsis: (Noun)


Definition: Purging of the emotions or relieving of emotions, teensions, through certain kinds of art.


Sourse Sentence: Partly catharsis, partly communication, it was a way of grabbing people by the shirt and explaining exactly what happened to me, how I'd allowed myself to get dragged into a wrong war, all the mistakes i'd made, all the eriible things I had seen done.


Contect Clue: Through the context clue example tells me that grabbing people by the shirt and explaing exactly what happened to him was through his writting the book was a way for him to relase his emotions about the war he had been involved in.