Word Usage: Every Friday after school all the teachers in the program met at a bar called The Rendezvous Lounge, ostensibly to swap teaching stories and commiserate before they got drunk.
Word: ostensibly
Definitions:
- From appearances alone
- seemingly, apparently, on the surface
My sentence: The boy ostensibly tried out for the play, but in actuality he just wanted to be the Juliet’s real-life Romeo.
Source: Packer, Z. 2003. Drinking coffee elsewhere.
Word Count: 82
1 comment:
5/5
FYI, we stopped doing Word of the Week with #8.
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