Sunday, October 19, 2008

Word of the Week #7

Jennifer Bilek
Word of the Week #7

Word: consolidated

Source: Machan, D. (2008). By the Seat of Their Pants. Smart Money, 17(6), 62.

How it's used: "Putin, 56, consolidated state influence over the country's oil giants during his presidency from 2000 to the middle of this year."

Definition: (verb):
1. to join together into one whole
2. to make firm or secure
3. to form into a compact mass

Your Sentence: I took all of the vocabulary words I had learned in my classes and consolidated them when writing my final paper.

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