Can anyone help me make a story with these words: doleful, emaciation, fallacy, hedonistic, insurrection, proletarian, ruffian, self abasement, utopia, vitriol?

Answer 1

I'll help you write the story, but you have to write it. Let's start really small. Let's tell a story that's only a few sentences long that uses one of the words correctly. I'll start with doleful. Then you try to do the same with emaciation. Then I'll try with fallacy. We'll keep going until we do all the words. Then you're going to write a longer story using all the words.

So let's start with doleful. According to the google search I just did:

define doleful

We see that it's an adjective for "expressing sorrow; mournful". There's another definition though that changes the meaning of the word. "causing grief or misfortune"

The tricky part is to construct a sentence using doleful that implies you understand the meaning. This might take a while to understand so let me show you an example.

The first definition gives us:

The beautiful woman had a doleful look on her face when she was reading the newspaper and found out her favorite bakery was going out of business.

The second definition gives us:

The hound was a wicked beast. His mannerisms of aggressively attacking animals smaller than him often led to doleful conclusions.

You see how the meanings of the word are very similar? In the first definition, the woman was doleful through no fault of her own. The bakery didn't really do anything wrong either. It's just a sad situation.

However from the second definition, the dog is the source of grief and misfortune. The dog is an aggressor causing conflict. In this way, the situation itself is doleful and its because something is causing it. Now, that cause doesn't have to be cruel or mean. The cause could be anything.

So the definitions are really closely related, but subtly different. It's kind of confusing to think about. It's kind of beautiful in a way too. That's English for you though. English is a confusing but beautiful language(although I know a few people who dislike it). Don't lose hope though! With practice it'll become easier to comprehend. Reading, writing, listening, and ultimately trying to understand English is a lot of work, but doing it regularly well make it more and more second nature. When you run into words you don't know, get in the habit of looking them up. It's easy with a smart phone. If you don't understand what a sentence means, try finding someone who does and get them to explain it to you in different words.

Anyways, why don't you try with emaciation? You don't have to write a sentence for each definition like I did. Just find the definition you understand the most and write a sentence or two that demonstrates what the word actually means. This is a creative exercise so use your imagination.

Hope this helps!