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coherent
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Growing Up, by Baker
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- When my cousin Catherine's hand touched a red-hot wood stove, my grandmother seized her arm and with fingertips light as feathers stroked the blistering skin while murmuring an incoherent incantation in a trancelike monotone.†
Chpt 4 *incoherent = not sensible or clear; or describing parts as not fitting together in a consistent or pleasing mannerstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherent means not and reverses the meaning of coherent. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- The weekend quickly turned into an incoherent jumble of dreamlike episodes.†
Chpt 15
- In a moment she was making incoherent noises which I took to be the music of feminine ecstasy.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(coherent) sensible and clear; or describing parts as fitting together in a consistent or pleasing manner
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of coherent such as one used in physics.