Five Examples Found Within an Article.
Adroit-"The Adroit Speaker Doesn’t Wing It"
Adroit is used as an adjective describing the person who is giving the speech.
Summary: This article is about how a speaker may be "skillful and clever" but still spends numerous hours getting prepared and practicing for the speech. It goes on to explain how they are much so stressed out and worried about presenting the speech even though they are almost considered masters at doing so.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/jobs/30career.html?_r=0
Fatuous- "THERE ought to be an award for the most fatuous tax rule--a fatuette, perhaps--and if so, I would like to make a nomination."
Fatuous is used as an adjective to describe the tax that people consider foolish and inane.
Summary: Mrs. Buttonwood is from America but living in London. She is required to pay taxes to the American government every year, but even little things like her Oyster Card (bus card) is considered money value and she is taxed according to it. She believes that this is a fatuous tax and thinks its ridiculous.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2013/08/tax
Empathy- "Empathy is out. Understanding ordinary lives is in."
Empathy is used as a noun to describe what Mr Obama believes is reasonable for his judges.
Summary: Mr Obama believes that laws are important and make up the country we live in. He believes that judges should be fair when it comes to the courtroom. They should see the view from what the people stand under and still follow the laws.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/us/politics/26memo.html
Emendation- "This was a helpful response and probably the most that
could have been said at the time, but, of course, it was also necessarily an
incomplete response since the prophet's conjectural emendation of the
text (as commonly understood) did not work in Hebrew either."
Emendation is used as a noun to describe Joseph's emendation to the Hebrew Genesis.
Summary: For a little bit of time, Kevin was able to believe Louis Zucker's emendation of the Hebrew Genesis. He feels that the correction was believable, but continues to think that it is also inadequate.
http://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V30N04_115.pdf
Bucolic- "Like the choral Doric, this Theocritan bucolic dialect is a Doric patina that colors an Epic dialect base."
Bucolic is used as an adjective to describe the dialect used by the Theocritan.
Summary: Theocritus is believed to have created from scratch a dialect. The literary dialect is believed to have been borrowed from many Doric dialects.
http://www.aoidoi.org/articles/bucolic_doric.html
Adroit is used as an adjective describing the person who is giving the speech.
Summary: This article is about how a speaker may be "skillful and clever" but still spends numerous hours getting prepared and practicing for the speech. It goes on to explain how they are much so stressed out and worried about presenting the speech even though they are almost considered masters at doing so.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/jobs/30career.html?_r=0
Fatuous- "THERE ought to be an award for the most fatuous tax rule--a fatuette, perhaps--and if so, I would like to make a nomination."
Fatuous is used as an adjective to describe the tax that people consider foolish and inane.
Summary: Mrs. Buttonwood is from America but living in London. She is required to pay taxes to the American government every year, but even little things like her Oyster Card (bus card) is considered money value and she is taxed according to it. She believes that this is a fatuous tax and thinks its ridiculous.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2013/08/tax
Empathy- "Empathy is out. Understanding ordinary lives is in."
Empathy is used as a noun to describe what Mr Obama believes is reasonable for his judges.
Summary: Mr Obama believes that laws are important and make up the country we live in. He believes that judges should be fair when it comes to the courtroom. They should see the view from what the people stand under and still follow the laws.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/us/politics/26memo.html
Emendation- "This was a helpful response and probably the most that
could have been said at the time, but, of course, it was also necessarily an
incomplete response since the prophet's conjectural emendation of the
text (as commonly understood) did not work in Hebrew either."
Emendation is used as a noun to describe Joseph's emendation to the Hebrew Genesis.
Summary: For a little bit of time, Kevin was able to believe Louis Zucker's emendation of the Hebrew Genesis. He feels that the correction was believable, but continues to think that it is also inadequate.
http://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V30N04_115.pdf
Bucolic- "Like the choral Doric, this Theocritan bucolic dialect is a Doric patina that colors an Epic dialect base."
Bucolic is used as an adjective to describe the dialect used by the Theocritan.
Summary: Theocritus is believed to have created from scratch a dialect. The literary dialect is believed to have been borrowed from many Doric dialects.
http://www.aoidoi.org/articles/bucolic_doric.html