Day: August 26, 2016

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Australian Writers' Centre Team

Word of the week: Inchoate

Inchoate (adjective) in-ko-hayt “This comes from the Latin word meaning ‘to yoke’ (like when you attach an ox to a plough) and according to the Macquarie Dictionary, it means something that has just begun, or is immature, rudimentary or lacking organisation. So you might say ‘his idea was inchoate’ or ‘the

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Australian Writers' Centre Team

Word of the week: Polemical

Polemical (adjective) [po-LEM-ickle]   “This means controversial, especially when it’s associated with a particular doctrine. And a polemic is a noun that means a controversial argument. So you might say that a chef who writes a blog post about how everyone should be on a Paleo diet has written a

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