Prompt 2: Vocab

"A meth addict on a binge is chaos walking and talking. In the first day or two, his emotion swings. Gregarious at one moment. Paranoid in the next. Euphoric, and then drowning in the depths of depression" (Patterson, 46). There are two words in this quote that I am not familiar with, "binge" and "Gregarious". Using context clues, I can infer that "binge" means a streak of, or time period of which someone is doing something. I looked up the term on dictionary.com, and I found "a period or bout, usually brief, of excessive indulgence, as in eating, drinking alcoholic beverages, etc.; spree." I was somewhat accurate. The other word that I didn't know was "Gregarious". using context clues, I can infer that it means the opposite of paranoid. Paranoid means to be worried or frightened, so I can infer that Gregarious means, relaxed, laid-back, or worry free. When searching the word on dictionary.com, I found "fond of the company of others; sociable.". Although I was not exactly correct, I was on the right track. Another hard word is "Euphoric", but from prior knowledge, I know that it means to be in a very happy state.