New Vocabulary Challenge:
Desultory: having no set plan, haphazard. Desultory also refers to jumping from one thing to another, disconnected.
Pronounciation:
Des-Sul-Tory
Desultory can also be used as an adverb: desultorily
Sentence:
Unmedicated, my manic friend desultorily was insistant about his intent to finish his doctorate, build a home with his bare hands and learn to paint portraits before the month was through.
(sources: http://www.mygretutor.com/vocabularyGREDifficult.aspx; http://www.thefreedictionary.com/desultory; http://merriam-webstercollegiate.com/thesaurus/desultorily; http://bipolar.about.com/od/maniahypomani1/a/mania.htm)
Compiled for Patricia Ladensack by Otto Ladensack
No comments:
Post a Comment