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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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- I was lurching through the streets of Earl's not-so-great part of Homewood, moving my lips, making semi-coherent noises, walking faster than is graceful for an overweight person to walk, and emitting maybe a quart of human sweat.†
p. 247.1coherent = sensible and clear; or describing parts as fitting together in a consistent or pleasing manner
- In fact, directors Gaines and Jackson begin the film with a grainy, pixilated apology to Rachel herself, admitting that the film is badly organized and basically incoherent.†
p. 259.5 *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.
- We had to step out into the hall eventually, but not before Mom had a bizarre interaction with Denise, where she hugged Denise's body and said some incoherent things while Denise just sat there rigidly.†
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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.