Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: "xeric"

• Context:
  • When city of Lakewood horticulture manager Greg Foreman inherited the park at Kendrick Lake in 2002, there were three garden beds and an acre of dead turf. But instead of seeing the park as half empty, he saw the opportunity to design drought-tolerant gardens to promote the benefits of planting native and xeric plants.
    Source:
    Torpey, Jodi (2010), "Kendrick Lake Park a Xeric Wonder", The Denver Post (21 May).

• Researcher:
  • Yalei Song

• Report:
  "The Meaning of ‘Xeric’ from Context"

• Files:
  • demo file
  • script