Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Word of the week #8

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:

  1. From appearances alone

  2. 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. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group.

Word Count: 82

1 comment:

camccune said...

5/5

FYI, we stopped doing Word of the Week with #8.