DILIGENT WORDS (WORDS # 38)

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DESOLATE

Adjective – A desolate place is completely empty with no people or pleasant features in it

               -   When a person is feeling very sad and lonely

Those streets are very desolate

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DISMEMBER

Verb (transitive) – To cut someone’s body to pieces

                       -  To take away important parts of an organization or system so that it can no longer function properly

Sam’s brilliant team is being slowly dismembered

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DOMICILE

Noun (Formal, countable) – Someone’s home

You need to register a permanent domicile for your bank account address

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DISCONSOLATE

Adjective – Extremely unhappy or disappointed

The team was disconsolate with the news of the lack of funds for the project

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MY COMMENTS ON THESE WORDS

An interesting list o words! Some of them are actually quite useful.

“Desolate” could be useful when offering condolences to a friend. You could say that you were “desolate” at the news. I have also seen this word used quite often in fiction, both to describe feelings and also to describe a landscape which is rather grim and empty. Writer use the expression “desolate wastes” for these landscapes.

“Dismember” could be gruesome if related to real human or animal bodies, but when used in relation to a group or a team or perhaps to the geographical boundaries of a country, or a particularly broken up coast line, like the southern coasts of Chile, it is a useful word that really describes the idea you want to convey.

“Domicile” is also a useful word, it means the same as “home”, but this is the term that is used on all official documents and papers of all kinds. A hospital, for instance, will request the “domicile” of the patient, and so on.

“Disconsolate” is a way of saying “very unhappy” but it seems to be a more formal expression. It is often used, both in everyday life and in news reports or fiction. A useful word!

There is good news for Spanish speakers! The words desolado, desmembrar, domicilio and desconsolado all exist, sound similar and mean the same! This is a great help for the graduate entry tests, which demand knowledge of these words in English.

So study up your words and I’ll see you on the next post!

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