Word: Proselytize
Source: "The Slow Life Picks Up Speed"- article from the new york times.
How it is used: "But it does have an increasing number of proselytizers, like John Brown, an architect in Calgary, Alberta, whose year-old Web site, theslowhome.com, urges consumers to say no to “fast-food architecture,” and Geir Berthelsen, a Norwegian motivational speaker whose Web site slowplanet.com, which is to go online in mid-March, has as its goal to be a hub for all things slow, from slow travel to slow shopping to slow design, he said. Ms. Chanin, meanwhile, has a book, “Alabama Stitch Book: Projects and Stories Celebrating Hand-Sewing, Quilting, and Embroidery for Contemporary Sustainable Design” (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) due out in March."
Dictionary definition: pros·e·lyt·ize /ˈprɒsəlɪˌtaɪz/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pros-uh-li-tahyz] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -ized, -iz·ing.
to convert or attempt to convert as a proselyte; recruit.
Also, especially British, pros·e·lyt·ise.
My sentence: My friend Chris is in a frat. he is always proselytizing trying to get me to join the frat. also. It gets old real quick.
You know it is funny, when I found my word of choice I also found a typo. The wrighter of the article uses the word "proselytizers" which is not a proper ending to the word proselytise.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
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1 comments:
Good typo catch. But I found one too: It's writer, not wrighter.
You also need to edit your sentence for punctuation and capitalization.
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