Assignment 1: Choose Your Word

Assignment 1: Choose Your Word

 Murder

Definitions

From: www.wordnik.com

• The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice.
• Slang - Something that is very uncomfortable, difficult, or hazardous: The rush hour traffic is murder. 
• A flock of crows.

From: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murder

• :  the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought
  a :  something very difficult or dangerous <the traffic was murder>
  b :  something outrageous or blameworthy <getting away with murder>

From: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/murder?s=t

murder

 mur·der

[mur-der] 

noun

1.  Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S.,   special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder)  and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)

2.  Slang. something extremely difficult or perilous: That final exam was murder!

3.  a group or flock of crows. verb (used with object)

4.  Law. to kill by an act constituting murder.

5.  to kill or slaughter inhumanly or barbarously.

6.  to spoil or mar by bad performance, representation, pronunciation, etc.: The tenor murdered the aria.

Reflection Questions:

   
1. Why did you choose the word?   
     It was assigned to me.


2. What do you hope to learn about it?
     Nothing, murder is not something I want or plan to perform.

3. How does C.S. Lewis' book Studies in Words apply to my word study? 
      He references and states " Verbicide, murder of a word"