Monday, January 15, 2007

Word of the Week: concomitant

Todays word is brought to you by the SAT. I tutor kids in test prep, and this word showed up last week. I had no idea what it meant. Even after looking it up, I am not sure I totally get how to use this word.

Concomitant: adj. existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent

I'm not really sure how else I could use this in a sentence except the way the dictionary shows:
an event and its concomitant circumstances.

Could a sidekick, for example, be concomitant? Not sure. Nevertheless, I now have an idea of what the word means if it ever pops up on practice SATs or ACTs.

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