A little over a week ago,when my classmates and I began shouting out a list of abstract nouns, I quickly decided that I wanted to research the word fear. It seemed like an interesting topic so I raised my hand to request the word. I was happy that I requested a word because those students that drew a random word out of a pile seemed to get words that were of little or no interest to them.

With fear as my word of choice, I began to do my research. As I had predicted, there was a profuse amount of information about the word fear. I started printing copies of everything that I could find. The only problem was getting ahold of the books that I wanted. I realized that thirty students fighting over the same couple of books was not going to work in my best interest, but I learned to deal with it.

This first thing that I did was grab the largest book known to mankind, the unabridged dictionary. This was by

far the biggest book that I have ever seen. It must have weighed fifteen pounds. I hauled the book over to my seat and quickly flipped through the pages until I came to the word fear. I let out a sigh as I began to drag the book to the copy machine. Upon arriving at the machine I realized that I was in need of assistance to lift the book so that I could copy it without breaking anything. Luckily someone was nearby, and he helped me get the book situated. Then I printed the first page of many pages that I would use for this paper.

I was rather disappoited with the results that I was finding online so I moed on to the Oxfords English Dictionary. From what I could understand the origin was around one thousand AD. The word has gone through many changes in spelling. Much to my misfortune, I could not decipher most of what was written on these pages because I do not know Old English. I was; however, happy to see that I had put an end to my computer and book work.

I glanced at the page that came out of the Xerox machine, I noticed that the first definition that appeared said the fear was a "painful emotion marked by alarm or anticipation of danger." To me this was a good sign because that is what I expected. I also learned from that page that my word had roots from Old English, Old High German, and Old Norse. After jotting down a few notes, I was delighted that I had finished my first task.

Moving down my list of guidelines, I found myself looking for the Concordance to the Bible. I was not even sure what that was, but I finally realized that I needed to get on the computer. I signed on and printed out a good three pages worth of Bible verses. Then I grabbed the Parallel Bible and got to work. I opened it and looked for verses that I could understand. I had not attended much church in my lifetime, but I felt that I had a grasp on the concepts in the Bible. After reading through a number pages, I found out that many of the verses said the same thing. The verses said' "fear your God." Regardless of which version of the Bible the verse was in the result was the same. This botherd me to read because I dislike the idea of fearing something that I cannot control, but I decided that it was a good example of my word.

Next on my list of things to do was to use the thesaurus. I looked up my word and found that fear is the most general term to r

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