A child’s curiosity and natural desire to learn are like a tiny flame, easily extinguished unless it’s protected and given fuel. This book will help you as a parent both protect that flame of curiosity and supply it with the fuel necessary to make it burn bright throughout your child’s life. Let’s ignite our children’s natural love of learning!
July 26th, 2006
Additions To My Lexicon
I like descriptive words. I like consulting the dictionary and thesaurus on a frequent basis to use and learn new words. Here are a few of the recent ones I’ve attempted to integrate into my vernacular (definitions from the Oxford Dictionary):
- neologism: a newly coined word or expression
- innocuous: not harmful or offensive
- hubris: excessive pride or self-confidence
- eschatology: the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
- anachronism: a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists
- insular: ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one’s own experience
- tautology: the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style
- eschew: deliberately avoid using; abstain from
- pejorative: expressing contempt or disapproval
- hegemony: leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others
- luddite: a person opposed to increased industrialization or new technology
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