Every vocabulary fan loves updating their personal thesaurus with new words every day. They have a routine to keep in touch with the happenings in the vocabulary world and get an update on the latest additions. Over the past decade (2010-2019), the Merriam Webster dictionary also added several words that trended that year. With an […]
Every cook has a unique way of bringing flavor to various dishes. Poets, too, reap the joy of emoting their feelings, which receives emphasis with the help of poetic devices. They are like tools that writers use, which seem like a deliberate effort to make something stand out in their work. With the advent of […]
[responsivevoice] derision [/responsivevoice] [ dih-rizh-uh n ] Quotation: In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent most of my adolescence attempting to keep it a secret from those who might use it as a source of derision. The off-brown collared […]
[responsivevoice] avarice [/responsivevoice] [ av-er-is ] Quotation: For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. John Maynard Keynes Social […]
[responsivevoice] morose [/responsivevoice] [ muh-rohs ] Quotation: There’s always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we’d probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that’s almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings […]
[responsivevoice] imprecation [/responsivevoice] [ im-pri-key-shuh n ] Quotation: The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up […]
[responsivevoice] nexus [/responsivevoice] [ nek-suh s ] Quotation: One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of […]
[responsivevoice] apogee [/responsivevoice] [ ap-uh-jee ] Quotation: The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool – as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative. Martin Filler Social Example: Did […]
[responsivevoice] covidiot [/responsivevoice] [ cou-vi-di-et ] Social Example: Did you miss out on reading today’s Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/trite-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] trite [/responsivevoice] [ trahyt ] Quotation: What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn’t just another game. It isn’t just another sport. It’s life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to […]