Every word lover will land on this page because learning new words never goes out of style. If that is indeed the case, then you should be here to read about this trending word. During this season, when most of us have extra time on us, a lot are turning towards enhancing their linguistic skills. […]
[responsivevoice] geriatric [/responsivevoice] [ jer-ee-a-trik ] Quotation: My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people’s stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They’d say, ‘I went to school in a horse and cart,’ and I’d just think ‘Wow!’ I’d picture […]
[responsivevoice] taut [/responsivevoice] [ tawt ] Quotation: When you’re telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on top of itself as opposed to letting things breathe and be languid in terms of the passage of time. Julie Plec Social Example: Did you […]
[responsivevoice] promulgate [/responsivevoice] [ prom-uhl-geyt ] Quotation: The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. Henry Louis Gates […]
[responsivevoice] oust [/responsivevoice] [ oust ] Quotation: In politics, my role model would be a very weird one – our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn’t ask much […]
The letter A needs no introduction. Even before we stepped foot in pre-schools, we had ABCD vibrating through every vein in our body. But as we grow older, we understand that the English Language is beyond just learning letters. We move on to study words, sentences, paragraphs, and so on! Letters are the roots of […]
[responsivevoice] deference [/responsivevoice] [ def-er-uh ns ] Quotation: Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that’s proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery […]
[responsivevoice] squalid [/responsivevoice] [ skwol-id ] Quotation: I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built […]
[responsivevoice] dreary [/responsivevoice] [ dreer-ee ] Quotation: I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project. I have a ’90s grunge side project; I have a piano project… I have this industrial, goth-electronic song, super creepy sounding, just really dark and dreary. […]
[responsivevoice] galvanize [/responsivevoice] [ gal-vuh-nahyz ] Quotation: The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn’t had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one. Lloyd Cutler Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch […]