✍️ Underscore
You got this one: UNDERSCORE means: A) erase; B) overlook; C) emphasize; D) undermine. Find the answer inside. 👉
Heads up: starting next week, every issue will end with a short quiz on the previous five words.
Five questions, multiple choice, answer key at the bottom. It should take you about a minute.
I’m adding it because of the way vocabulary actually sticks. Seeing a word once, even in a good sentence, won’t do it; you need to run into it again a few days later, and you need to pull it out of your own memory rather than just recognize it sitting on the page. That second, active part (the actual retrieval, not the review) is what the quiz is for.
So this week, read the words the way you always do. Next week you’ll see them again.
📚️ Definition of Underscore
Underscore (verb): to emphasize or draw attention to: to underscore the importance of punctuality. to draw a line under something, as text; to underline the teacher underscores all important vocabulary in the stories he gives us.
🗣️ Pronunciation of Underscore
IPA: ˈʌn.dər.skɔr (See IPA key)
Phonetic: UN-der-skor
📰 Examples of Underscore
Here are some examples of the word UNDERSCORE:
I need to underscore the importance of having proper table manners for dinner tonight at Mrs. White’s house. No elbows on the table, no boarding-house reaches, and of course, no phones at the table.
In Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, the opening line—”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”—underscores the paradoxical nature of the French Revolution.
A 2018 Science Advances study found that delaying Seattle high school start times by 55 minutes not only increased median sleep by 34 minutes but also improved grades, underscoring scientists’ growing understanding of the relationship between sleep and adolescent learning.
🗣️ Common Collocations of Underscore
A collocation is a group of words often found together in usage, for example figment of one’s imagination, extenuating circumstances, or inclement weather.
underscore the importance
underscore a point
underscore the need
findings underscore
underscore the value
underscore concerns
Quiz answer: C.