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I’m reading Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama. I started it last week and was really getting into it, but then it started getting a little bit uninteresting where he starts to detail his arrival in Chicago and the process of starting out doing his work as a community organizer. I find that there’s too much in the way of unnecessary detailing of insignificant conversations and encounters; but that’s not what this post is about. I’ve decided to use the book to help improve my comprehension skills.

Today I’m looking at a phrase from the preface (page xi). The phrase is “untrammeled fury”. Interestingly, the word “untrammeled” is not in my tenth edition of the Miriam Webster dictionary. I guess I need to upgrade. The word “trammel” is in the dictionary though and it means “restrain” among other things; so I’m going to guess that, as used in Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama, untrammeled means “unrestrained”. Obama writes about the narrow path between humiliation and “untrammeled fury” in the lives of the children on Chicago’s South Side.

Word phrase of the day: untrammeled fury.

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