Monday, April 28, 2008

Vocabulary Week 5

Impunity
"But she believes Rwanda shows thte horrific consequence when such violence happens with impunity, when the belief is allowed to spread that there is no cost for taking human life."
CC: the second part of the paragraph shows more meaning into what the word means, so if it was anyone who didnt know that part of the sentence would help them out.
DEF: exemption from punishment (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/impunity)

Insinuated
"Kagme was also angry at a French judge who insinuated that his men were guilty of shooting down the plane carrying Rwanda's president."
CC: well, by reading the whole sentence it just kind of seems like the word means that its something like of a plan or has to part of a plan
DEF:to instill or infuse subtly or artfully, as into the mind (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/insinuated)

Encasing
"He may have been helping his dad, but Cris was doing damage to himself, encasing his own emotions in a dispassionate shell."
CC: I really dont know what this word means but I have herd this word in the title of a song so when I read it in this sentence I definately highlitgted it and wanted to know what it meant
DEF:to enclose in or as in a case (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/encasing)

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