When and Where: Today I stumbled on this mysterious word through one of my 11th grade students. At the end of my third period class, one of my students asked me if I ever heard of the word lachrymose before. I told her no and asked her where she heard of it. She informed me she gets the word of the day sent to her phone and that was the word of the day.
Definition: suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
taken from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lachrymose
Meaning in Context:After the funeral, the lachrymose family left together in the car.
Level of Familiarity: Until my student sprung this word on me, I have never heard of this word before. I doubt many people have even heard this word before.
Reflective Commentary: I picked this word for one of my words because it is an interesting word. Words like this amaze me because it's such a long word for such a simple concept. This word is also relevant because we were talking in class last nigh about vocabulary, more particularly the VSS strategy. While I doubted that my students would be intrigued by the idea of finding vocabulary words on their own, I was surprised. My student willingly gets a word of the day sent to her phone so maybe I doubted my students willingness too soon. Although she and I discussed the VSS strategy after she told me the word of the day, and she agreed with my hesitation about introducing that strategy to the other students as they would not participate. While this word is intriguing, I do not think it is necessary to know this word and I do not even see myself using this word in the future.
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