Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Vocabulary

-Shrapnel (Noun) A hollow projectile containing bullets or other metal designed to explode and spread on impact.
-"...Often useless because of the shrapnel in the earth, but they carried it anyway, partly for saftey, partly for the illustion of saftey."- The Things They Carried.
-I found the example of shrapnel using my own logic due to the use of the word in video games. The shrapnel landed in the mans leg, wounding him.

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