inchoate
Today's word is an adjective through which everybody has to pass before creating a masterpiece. Yes... its the base of great creations because nothing great can come out overnight ..... it all starts from embryo !! Well... this word is derived from the Latin root "incohare" which means "to begin". And the pronunciation of this word goes like "in'kow-eyt".
Dictionary meaning(adjective)--- In an initial or early stage ; imperfectly partly in existence.
Example sentence --- My idea about astrophysics is inchoate ... I have only attended one class !!
Fun description -- Well.. you can use it in various ways .... let me give you two of my anecdotes .:--
1.Once I was jotting down some formulae in a small sheet of paper just before the exam ( you know why :P) then suddenly one of my friends who is pretty pro in this business came up and said " Oh!! your exam-scratch is so inchoate ... just watch mine " and then he took out his paper and it seemed like a long list of grocery items written down for a year on a kilometer-long gauge toilet paper ..... "You are next to genius" was the instant response from me!!:P
2. Then I had that i-don't-know-anything-except-text-books type roommate back in my high-school. Once I asked him to explain me the theory of relativity ... then he said "actually I think the theory is pretty inchoate ... I am working on it " ..... I swear I couldn't sleep after hearing that reply for two days !!
But I admire both the people whom I have stated in these two anecdotes because of only one reason-- both of them knew the word "inchoate" :)
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