How are you doing on your readings in general and more specifically in developing your vocabularies? Recently I started reading a book for my Finance class called The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein. In the very first chapter of the book – a short 6-page prologue, there were many words that I did not know, and I am listing them here:
destitute
somnolent
bulwark
scrutinize
(to) prick
quiescent
laudatory
salient
fervent (adj)
frothy
parlance
umbilical (cord)
placate
carnage
plenitude
opiate
dictum
stupendous
I was so surprised to see so many new words in such a small amount of pages! How is this Roger Lowenstein guy? You would think that while reading a finance book, the only words you would stumble upon are technical terms or lingos. Or maybe I am just bad.
How many words in the list above that you already know?
