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When shall I use you?
I could lie and say I love vocab quizzes and admire their ability to enhance my every sentence to a degree such that people are left utterly speechless, but I'm sure my adulation would quickly be sensed as sarcastic.
This not to say that I believe they are completely useless and are teacher is a dunce for assigning them, now that is a calumny if I could ever identify one.
I recognize they are useful to my understanding of advanced texts and writing at an AP level. But I wish I could see the words used more often in text, to see examples as to how they are properly used. I would quit complaining so much if said examples were given, I would happily capitulate to those terms.
In fact, I find that arrangement beneficial to all parties. Students would better remember the terms if they see them used and could grasp a better understanding of them, what more could a teacher wish for? I see no reason for one to censure the simple suggestion of providing real life examples of our vocabulary words.
I do not mean to dissemble the nature of my complaints, for I admit that I will be wary of these vocab quizzes regardless.
I believe myself not to be too much of a pusillanimous individual, so I will say honestly that I find vocab quizzes to be utterly horrid, nor do I mean that in any light-hearted or droll sense, I find them, no joke, horrid.
Mullins, if you read this I hope you don't find my statements offensive, or my suggestion peremptory, but I stand by my suggestion. If we can not trash the vocab quizzes, please at least let us see them in a first hand source so we know we aren't learning made-up words. Also, please don't be angry at my calling them horrid. If I get scolded for voicing my opinion then I just might go home and sob on my couch, with a surfeit of junk food surrounding me- true to stereotypical female way of dealing with things.
Sadly, I can't think of a way to incorporate palpate. :(
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