Personal Dictionary #6

The Word/Term Include other forms of the word, e.g., noun, verb, adjective	Proliferate, verb.
The meaning: in your own words	To cause a rapid increase; multiply.
An Example of the word/term.	The news about Robert Williams’s death proliferated on Facebook and social websites alike.
A Non-example of what the word/term is not.	The importance of celebrity deaths dwindles down as time moves forward.
A Quote from the text that relates to the word/term (include page #)	“These adolescent posts will remain online for a lifetime, just as those you friend on Facebook will never go away.  Anxieties migrate, proliferate” (243).
Why it matters: Why do you think the word/term is important to know and to consider further?	Living in an economy where the market can strike so many high and low cords I think it is necessary to understand its proliferate state of well-being and its inevitable downfalls also.
Questions to help think critically about the word/term.	Can proliferate be used as an adjective, as in “the proliferate method of tasks in my English course”?
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