Sunday, March 13, 2011

Vocabulary #4

Feign: to pretend
"The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference."
Synonym: Fictional

Salvaged: to save something from destruction
"He watched the young soldier wading through the water, bending down and then standing and then bending down again, as if something might finally be salvaged from all the waste."
My own logic with the experience of getting salvaged items for car parts.

Blatant- Very obvious
"Often they were exaggerated, or blatant lies, but it was a way of bringing body and souls back together, or a way of making a new bodies for the souls to inhabit."
Antonym: Hidden

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