Comments on: Vacuous Vocabulary?

Comments on: Vacuous Vocabulary? http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2007/05/vacuous-vocabulary/ Thoughts on everything from education and politics to internet usability, and programming. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2007/05/vacuous-vocabulary/comment-page-1/#comment-2276 Tom Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:18:25 +0000 http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2007/05/vacuous-vocabulary/#comment-2276 <chuckle> Empty, without substance or purpose. Get the <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=vacuous" rel="nofollow">full definition</a> at dictionary.com. I chose "vacuous" because: <ul><li>It's on the list of 100 words for high school graduates.</li><li>It's an alluring <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=alliteration" rel="nofollow">alliteration</a>.</li> <li>It was an ironic way of asking whether vocabulary is truly important.</li></ul> <chuckle>

Empty, without substance or purpose. Get the full definition at dictionary.com.

I chose “vacuous” because:

It’s on the list of 100 words for high school graduates.
It’s an alluring alliteration.
It was an ironic way of asking whether vocabulary is truly important.

]]> By: Andrea http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2007/05/vacuous-vocabulary/comment-page-1/#comment-2270 Andrea Thu, 31 May 2007 22:54:09 +0000 http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2007/05/vacuous-vocabulary/#comment-2270 What does vacuous mean? What does vacuous mean?

]]>