Sunday, March 30, 2008

Word #7

Provincial
Source: The Management of Grief

How it was used: With a stroke of the pen, they will have a provincial trustee to pay their bills, invest their money, send them a monthly pension.

Definition: Having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial.

Sentence:
She came from a small town which was why her provincial views were not considered by her colleagues.

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