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Cogent comes from a Latin word meaning to drive together, so cogent thinking is well-organized: it hangs together. If you try to convince your mayor to build a new park by saying that playgrounds are good, seeing the sky is nice, and raccoons are cool…well that’s not a cogent argument; it’s just random. But you could cogently argue that parks contribute to civic happiness by providing space for exercise, community, and encounters with nature.

Abscond is generally used to describe someone running from law or capture, and the word abscond has been in use since the early sixteenth century — running away and hiding being nothing new. Dogs who get off the leash and dart into the woods are not necessarily absconding; they are simply making a break for it. On the other hand, the Ponzi schemer who went to live in the South of France with his client's money? He absconded.

Episode 4 of my GRE studying series

Hey guys, so if you’ve noticed I haven’t been posting as much questions daily as usual. The reason for this is because I will be doing more videos instead, in the future, on question tutorials for studying GRE. I’ve been watching a lot of youtube videos online, and inspired by lots of educational tutorials and especially by venus angelic, I will be focusing on doing more video tutorials instead. They’ll be fun and entertaining, and most importantly, people will be able to study the GRE while watching my videos.  So that is the main goal. I am currently waiting for my video camera I ordered on amazon to arrive through the mail tomorrow. Then I’ll start filiming tutorial videos.  For now, ciao and have a good night! 

Being lethargic makes it hard to get anything done: you feel weak and sleepy. Whatever the reason, a lethargic person needs to snap out of it and get some energy, maybe by eating something or by taking a nap. Being lethargic also goes well with watching TV, since that takes almost no energy at all. When you feel lethargic, you don't have any energy to spare.

Originally spelled gad, meaning “spearhead,” goad first came into use as a verb in the 1570s. But say you left your pointy goading stick at home. Have no fear! You can goad people with words, too. Literally or figuratively, a goad prods and pokes and provokes people into doing something. A sheep herder might hustle his flock along with a goad, just as your mom's constant nagging and goading might finally get you sit up straight at the dinner table.

Racket, noise, dissonance — all can describe sounds that are not pleasant. While some musicians purposely add a little dissonance into their melodies to create an unexpected sound, others, like someone who just started drum lessons, creates dissonance by accident. Dissonance can also be a conflict between people or opinions, like the dissonance you feel when you want to do something but your parents say "no."

Coda comes from the Italian word couda, and it's good to think of it as a tail tacked onto something that in and of itself is already a whole. If you tell a story about your crazy experience getting lost in the country and sleeping at a farmer's house, you might add, as a coda, that the farmer ended up visiting you too, a year later.

Wearing my harujuku outfit again

The word abeyance has a legal ring to it, and for a good reason — appearing in English in the 16th century, it comes from the Anglo-French word abeiance, a legal term for waiting or hoping to receive property. Nowadays, the word is used in a similar way. Different legal rights, like property rights, can be held in abeyance until matters are resolved.

Here’s another question I found guys. This one is about New York city. Enjoy, and there is no answer yet, will be including the answer after I do the youtube video tutorial. Cheers!

Another question, this time on classical music. If you can see this passage has 2 questions. I will be posting the answers on Youtube when I do the problem out in the video tutorial, as well as posting the answer on this post (both answers) after the video gets published on my channel.