Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Vocabulary

Tangible (adj) - capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.

Grief, terror, love, longing - these were the intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.

Context clue: 'Their own mass and specific gravity.'
The Antonym on tangible is intangible, which has been explained in the text as a mental thing.

You can physically feel the tangibles, but you must deal with the intangibles yourself.

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