Word #3

1. Immersion

2. “Reading is not just a way to find out about the world or yourself; it is an immersion in language.” The statement comes from a book “When words collide” by Lauren Kessler and Duncan McDonald.

3. The word definition:

Immersion (n): a. sinking until covered completely with water.

b. the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse.

c. complete attention; intense mental effort.

d. a form of baptism in which part or all of a person’s body is submerged.

e. the act of wetting something by submerging it.

4. I don’t want to immerse myself in work on Saturday.