Word of the week F block

  Aphorism (Noun) a brief saying or phrase that expresses an opinion or makes a statement of wisdom without the flowery language of a proverb “I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms / meant to assuage my fears, pithy sayings meant to / convey that everything ends up fine in the end” (“When people say ‘we have made it through worse before’” - poem by Clint Smith) In the poem I chose to analyze for an essay, the word ‘aphorisms’ stood out to me. I had never encountered the word before reading it in this poem. After learning the meaning of the word, I realized that this word played a significant role in conveying the message of the poem. The poem revolves around the delusive impact of sympathies offered by others to those suffering. Therefore the word ‘aphorism’, which is similar to commonly known words such as sayings, mottos and proverbs, defines the main topic of the poem. 

  Fetter (Verb) to restrict or restrain (someone) in an unfair or undesirable fashion “The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interest through quarrels of the others nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence” (History Primary Source - Henry Lodge’s Stance on League of Nations) When I first read this sentence I did not understand what the speaker meant to convey. I initially thought in this sentence Lodge expressed that the other nations must not exploit the Unites States. After learning the meaning of the word ‘fetter’, I properly understood that Lodge meant to emphasize the harm in restricting the United States rather than accusing the other countries of wrongly take advantage of the United States. 

  Earl(N):  a British nobleman ranking above a viscount and below a marquess - “Every pine and fir and hemlock / Wore ermine too dear for an earl”  (“The First Snowfall” James Russel Lowell) This word made me laugh when I read this because pre-pandemic I was at a fancy restaurant and I ordered this ice cream with a fancy name. I thought it was going to be chocolate or something and when I took a bite I was shocked. To my surprise it was earl gray ice cream and it was not good to say the least. It was a big joke in my family after that.

 This came out a lot later than I wanted. I forgot about this for a bit. Whoops. Anyways I should be able to catch up on everything. N - A type of non euclidean space where every point has a negative curvature (thing pringle/saddle shaped instead of spherical) The straight lines form hyperbolas in this type of space. This wasn't really much of a vocab word to be honest, but more of an interesting topic I learned about and did a bit of research on to learn more about. Anyways, Hyperbolic space is where every direction of travel is in a hyperbola. Due to this, equilateral triangles have angles of less than 60 degrees, and circles are rather strange. In euclidean geometry, a circle’s circumference is C=2pi*r. This is a linear relationship. However, in hyperbolic space this relationship is hyperbolic (C = 2πsinh(r)). This means that a 2D circle in hyperbolic space would have to be displayed in 3D euclidean space as wrinkled in order to actually fit the extra circumference. This is what...