All 5 Uses
bizarre
in
The Impossible Knife of Memory
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- I'm still talking and I am looking for something to talk about but it's tough because this is a bizarre situation.†
p. 96.5 *bizarre = exceedingly odd or unusual
- How do you know such a bizarre amount of history?†
p. 152.2
- Forging my father's signature on the excused absence card was cake, and it felt good, in a bizarre way, to watch Ms. Benedetti's face light up as she officially approved the absence.†
p. 201.8
- I scanned the prices to figure out what cost the most, then piled boxes of raspberries, gourmet salad dressings, and a couple of bizarre-looking organic things grown in Central America in my cart.†
p. 275.6
- He helped me figure out how to solve a problem about a kid on a spinning Ferris wheel with a bizarre formula that required the calculation of revolutions per minute to degrees per second, and cosines.†
p. 302.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(bizarre as in: is bizarre) exceedingly odd or unusual
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Bizarre can also refer to a marketplace -- especially in the Middle East.