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  1. coagulate
    change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
    When I sat in middle school and they gave us Shakespeare. …roasted in wrath and fire, And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore, I was completely confused and I felt stupid. 
  2. implicate
    bring into intimate and incriminating connection
     
    Is somehow implicated in my ability to think about your thinking.
  3. verdant
    characterized by abundance of vegetation and green foliage
    Committed to building a more just, verdant and
     
    Committed. 
  4. throng
    a large gathering of people
    Much like a press of people at a door Throng her inventions, which shall go before. 
  5. cognitive
    relating to or involving the mental process of knowing
     
    Yeah I’m trying to think that—I guess I, I don't think it's so simple that you could just go in and say hey I’m going to teach you ten signs today and now suddenly you're gonna have better cognitive capacity.
  6. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
    She would have these disparate thoughts and then stall out, like she couldn’t bring them together.
  7. converge
    be adjacent or come together
     However it worked, over time the signs of these fifty kids used,
     
    Started to converge into common system.
  8. paralyze
    cause to be immobile
    And at that moment my right arm went totally paralyzed by my side.
  9. dissection
    the act of cutting so as to separate into pieces
     
    I did not have that portion of my language center that tells a story curious little Jill, me, Jill Bolte Taylor climbing the Harvard ladder, through language, loves dissection, cutting up things, that language was gone.
  10. unmitigated
    not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity
    Unearthly, unhand, undress, uneducated, ungoverned, unmitigated, unwillingness unpublished, something that’s near and dear to my heart.
  11. ongoing
    currently happening
    Language is an ongoing information processing it's that constant reminder.
  12. conceit
    the trait of being unduly vain
    First hovering o’er the paper with her quill; Conceit and grief and eager combat fight; What wit sets down is blotted straight with will; This is too curious good, this blunt and ill. 
  13. superficial
    of, affecting, or being on or near the surface
     
    Well we don’t test them with food; we don’t test them with digging (R. laughing) so in superficial ways, superficial features of the studies are different.
  14. rudimentary
    being in the earliest stages of development
    These were fifty different kids who’d never learned a language and had fifty different sets of like rudimentary gestures that they used.
  15. cohort
    a band of warriors
     
    So this is a first cohort talking about
     
    She got out her laptop and showed me some video.
  16. strand
    a group of fibers twisted together to form a thread or rope
     
    When you drop out of the “I” ness of yourself or the story of yourself then you're left, she says at peace, I could argue that that's just stranded, that's stranded in the sunshine, with the wind in, in the now.
  17. caustic
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
    And it was the kind of pain, caustic pain that you get when you bite into ice cream.
  18. insight
    clear or deep perception of a situation
    My Stroke of Insight.
  19. unearthly
    suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
    Unearthly, unhand, undress, uneducated, ungoverned, unmitigated, unwillingness unpublished, something that’s near and dear to my heart.
  20. exaggerate
    enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
    I think that he’s exaggerating the role of language here. 
  21. entity
    that which is perceived to have its own distinct existence
    I’m this, this organic entity.
  22. stroke
    a single complete movement
    And then all of a sudden left hemisphere comes back on-line and it says to me, “Hey! We’re having a stroke, we gotta get some help!”
  23. hinge
    a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing
    Yes…
     
    This all really hinges on how you would define thinking, and Liz would say take a musician, like I’ll give you my example Bill Evan

    Here is a form of thought that carries you through a definite sequence of phrases, feelings, emotions, changes.
  24. parch
    cause to wither from exposure to heat
     
    Head to foot Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streets, That lend a tyrannous and damned light To their lord's murder

    This is Shakespeare. 
  25. curious
    eager to investigate and learn or learn more
    First hovering o’er the paper with her quill; Conceit and grief and eager combat fight; What wit sets down is blotted straight with will; This is too curious good, this blunt and ill. 
  26. commit
    engage in or perform
    Committed to building a more just, verdant and
     
    Committed. 
  27. mechanism
    device consisting of a piece of machinery
    But language also seems to me to serve as a mechanism of communication between different systems within a single mind.
  28. tedious
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
    He, he wasn't willing to go through that tedious effort of all the miming anymore.
  29. infer
    conclude by reasoning
    They infer this based on studying the rats.
  30. collapse
    break down, literally or metaphorically
    He just collapsed and he started crying.
  31. claw
    sharp curved horny process on the toe of some animals
    And I'm jamming away on this thing and I'm realizing that my hands look like primitive claws grasping onto the bar.
  32. mute
    expressed without speech
    Just like someone took a remote control and pushed the mute button.
  33. stall
    a small area set off for special use
    She would have these disparate thoughts and then stall out, like she couldn’t bring them together.
  34. ripe
    fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
     
    Good
     
    Something happens at the ripe old age of six.
  35. ponder
    reflect deeply on a subject
    So for the next several hours I'd be pondering president.
  36. hover
    hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
    First hovering o’er the paper with her quill; Conceit and grief and eager combat fight; What wit sets down is blotted straight with will; This is too curious good, this blunt and ill. 
  37. crude
    belonging to an early stage of technical development
    So if you were this kid all you've really got our a couple of gestures, really crude gestures you've worked out to talk to your family and friends, but beyond that your cut off.
  38. sacrifice
    the act of killing in order to appease a deity
     
    That was on of the sacrifices.
  39. bolt
    a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
    Is it Bolte or Bolt?
  40. wrath
    intense anger
    When I sat in middle school and they gave us Shakespeare. …roasted in wrath and fire, And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore, I was completely confused and I felt stupid. 
  41. blast
    a sudden, loud sound
     
    Well they wanted to see, like, if you blasted the words out of somebody’s head
     
    What would happen?
  42. remote
    located far away spatially
    Just like someone took a remote control and pushed the mute button.
  43. scholar
    a learned person
     
    He is a Shakespeare scholar, obviously.
  44. drift
    be in motion due to some air or water current
    So it’s like okay I got a problem, but then I immediately drifted right back out. 
  45. cardinal
    a vivid red color
     
    Cat. 
     
    Cardinal.
  46. scatter
    cause to separate and go in different directions
     
    But the school would include deaf people and that, says psychology professor Ann Senghas, was a first, because now instead of deaf kids scattered about, they were together, in the same room.
  47. pile
    a collection of objects laid on top of each other
    The kids are all screaming and leaning out the windows and signing to each other and the kids pile out and they line up in rows on the basketball court that’s in the center of the schoolyard.
  48. grasp
    hold firmly
    And I'm jamming away on this thing and I'm realizing that my hands look like primitive claws grasping onto the bar.
  49. eager
    having or showing keen interest or intense desire
    First hovering o’er the paper with her quill; Conceit and grief and eager combat fight; What wit sets down is blotted straight with will; This is too curious good, this blunt and ill. 
  50. incident
    a single distinct event
     
    Well I'm getting Ildefonso’s answer, which, when I saw him a couple of years later, after this incident, I asked him about his friends and he said he couldn't talk to them anymore.
  51. wander
    move or cause to move in a sinuous or circular course
     
    Just kind of wandering down a random hallway.
  52. struggle
    strenuous effort
    And she's struggling to find words in which to do this and finally she picks up the pen and it go

    She prepares to write.
  53. stream
    a natural body of water flowing on or under the earth
    I want to suggest that the central thread of all that is actually language, it’s a stream of inner speech. 
  54. vessel
    an object used as a container, especially for liquids
     
    In fact a blood vessel in the left hemisphere of Jill’s brain had popped. 
  55. establish
    set up or found
     
    In the late seventies Hope Simosa, who was the wife of the then dictator, established a new school for special education. 
Created on 十二月 9, 2010

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