Monday, August 30, 2010

Vocabulary

Extol- (verb)

Definition: to praise highly; to lift up

Source Sentence: Similarily, a decade later, the essayist and novelist Edward Hoagland extols a New York where once "Negro bitterness bore down mainly on other Negroes."

Context Clues: The sentence is a general sense of the passage because it's not specifying the definition in the context.

Original Sentence: Now a days, young girls like to extol Justin Bieber over others.

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