Everyone knows how it feels when you arrive for your first day of school. You walk into a strange classroom to find a group of people you’ve never met. It can be a little awkward at first.

For a few days, or perhaps even weeks, you miss the friends you talked with so effortlessly last year.

Then, perhaps one day during class, you share your history textbook with the girl sitting next to you or help the boy two rows behind you find his lost calculator.

With a little more time, you may begin to study together, strike up spontaneous conversations or even start to laugh at the same jokes.

Eventually, your propinquity (see definition and hear pronunciation below) to your new classmates makes them seem less like strangers and more like friends!

Cool word vocabulary question of the day: How do social media websites, such as Facebook, create virtual propinquity between family and friends?

Propinquity: Proximity, physical closeness, kinship.

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