When and Where did I Found it:
After our class discussion, I decided to revisit the "words collected list" in the Ruddell and Shearer (2002) article entitiled "Extraordinary," "tremendous," "exhilarating," "magnificent": Middle school at-risk students become avid word learners with the Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS)." The word "inscrutable" stood out to me. I explored the meaning of this word through dictionary.com.
What it means:
Inscrutable is defined as being not easily understood or incapable of being analyzed. I am struggling between classifying this word as a general or specialized word because it has a consistent meaning but can describe different objects in varying contexts. This word was used to describe a person and his/her emotions, as well as an object, specifically the ocean.
Level of familiarity:
I have not encourntered this word before.
Do I want to know this word well and why:
After I discovered the definition of this word, I wanted to know more about it. I think it is an interesting word that could be construed in many different ways, especially when encountering new and different things.
Do I think others should know this word well...if so, who and why:
I think others would find this word interesting. I think it could lead to more inquiry and discussion regarding what it could describe and the various contexts through which it could be used.
Inscrutable. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.dictionary.com/inscrutable
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