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What is the BIGGEST word you've seen used in a book lately - that made you stop and look it up? Might as well leave the definition and book too.
Ummmm.... I can usually decipher a words meaning by how it is used in the sentence. So this is a pretty hard question for me because I hardly ever have to look up the meaning of a word.
The only thing that I can think of off the top of my head is when I looked up the word "Skiptracer" for my friend. The definition of it is:
The process of locating a person's whereabouts for any number of purposes. Or a person who locates someone's whereabouts. The "skip" refers to the slang skipping town & "tracer(ing)" is the person looking for the (skip).
LOL...
So it's like a private investigator. It was only confusing because the
author would go from using the term skiptracer to saying investigator
when she was referring to the same person.The book in question is First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones.
LOL... I hope my answer wasn't to confusing...
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That's a cool new word! And the book has a nice cover. ;)
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Sarika.
I completely understand what you mean! Unless something is very outlandish, the context usually tells you what the word means.
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Wow, I've never heard of that before :o
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Great word, thanks for sharing!
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it's funny I don't remember this one but you're right.
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Hopping through. I usually figure out words from their context too.
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@The Readdicts: It is a good series, I really enjoy it. But it's more adult then YA.
@Sinn: Yea, and if it's completely outlandish to wear you have to look it up, then it's really not needed (or inappropriate) for that sentence.
@Rinn: Yea, I had never heard the phrase before reading this book either.
@Christina: That's what I'm here for =D
@Melliane: Yea, I never really noticed it until I let my friend borrow the book and she pointed it out to me.
@Alisona: Yea... I guess that's something else I can be happy about. Because I'm such a reader my vocabulary is pretty good as well... I know sometimes I'll say a word and my friends are just like, "WTH does that even mean?" LOL.
I didn't know or even hear of this word LOL.
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