Saturday, November 21, 2009

ummm

Hmmm.

'Aren't you young to be worrying about college?' 'I'm not sure if there's a noun for someone who deprecates others, but synoyms might be 'expostulate,' 'disparage,' 'disesteem' or 'sell short.' Maybe 'demoralizer'?' 'We send out acceptance letters in March.'

First, I'm not sure that telling a little girl - how old is Gracie, anyway? 10? - she might be too young to apply to college counts as "deprecat[ing]" her. Second, do colleges really only care about vocabulary? And third, since when does "expostulate" mean "deprecate, disparage, demoralize" or "sell short"?

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At 7:43 AM, November 26, 2009 Anonymous mike had this to say...

The equivalents for expostulate are just a thesaurus lookup, e.g.

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/expostulate

As for colleges and vocabulary, I'm guessing that the comic's three panels were just not enough to get the math portion of the SAT in there.

 

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