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What are some good sophisticated words that can be used in a essay??
charmanderp:
Obfuscate. As in, 'if you contrive to use impressive sounding words in your essays you will often obfuscate the examiner and they will not be able to comprehend your actual analysis.'
That being said, if you ever get the chance to use antidisestablishmentarianism in a sentence, please let me know.
As Surgeon said, keep your phone with you at all times or a dictionary, and look up words that you think put a cherry on top in terms of expression. Then commit that to memory by using it in a couple of sentences. Make sure you know exactly what the word means, and watch out for any similarly spelled ones.
Bhootnike:
--- Quote from: charmanderp on July 30, 2012, 06:48:00 pm ---Obfuscate. As in, 'if you contrive to use impressive sounding words in your essays you will often obfuscate the examiner and they will not be able to comprehend your actual analysis.'
That being said, if you ever get the chance to use antidisestablishmentarianism in a sentence, please let me know.
As Surgeon said, keep your phone with you at all times or a dictionary, and look up words that you think put a cherry on top in terms of expression. Then commit that to memory by using it in a couple of sentences. Make sure you know exactly what the word means, and watch out for any similarly spelled ones.
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yeah, dont wanna obsfucate your ideas by putting all these wonderful words which are meaningless in the context of your work!
LOL.
thats nothing.
in one of my bros lecture recordings, the professor attempted: "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"
it was obviously as a joke. but wtf!
charmanderp:
Haha to be fair, if that's a medical term it probably belonged there (assuming it was a med lecture).
paulsterio:
Well here's my wordbank for English - you might or might not find it useful depending on the texts - but pretty much I memorised all of this and used phrases as I needed in my Essay.
PS. Charmanderp - might be good for you because I know you're doing the same texts that I did last year :P
Jenny_2108:
--- Quote from: paulsterio on July 30, 2012, 07:13:42 pm ---Well here's my wordbank for English - you might or might not find it useful depending on the texts - but pretty much I memorised all of this and used phrases as I needed in my Essay.
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I dont do this text but its quite helpful to learn some sophisticated words from here though.
I remember in my first SAC, I was so nervous so almost forgot everything I remembered before. Then I used some Bio, Chem and Maths terminology to describe the characters and analyse the events. When I got my SAC back, the teacher underlined these words and wrote they were quite good. LOL Scientific terms are awesome!
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