You are probably wondering how something that sounds so complex like ‘oxymorons’ can tickle our English knowledge. Trust us when we say, if you are into this language and know the fundamentals, this list will surely amuse you. To begin with, let us understand what an oxymoron is in the first place. In layman language, […]
Expressing what we feel has also become so monotonous. It is so basic to respond with words like happy, sad, angry, irritated, frustrated to demonstrate our current mood. But the English language opens up new scopes for being more eloquent in contemporary times. When we can sound so much more “cooler”, why waste the opportunity […]
[responsivevoice]threnody [/responsivevoice] [thren-uh-dee ] Quotation: The dear life shall go not into its decline but shall stay persistent. This threnody is a sign of a scar. Life retires to last not in scar but in happiness. Anonymous Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/frugality-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] frugality [/responsivevoice] [ froo-gal-i-tee ] Quotation: Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come to the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give? Orison Swett Mardon Social Example: Did you miss out […]
[responsivevoice] sybaritic [/responsivevoice] [ sib-uh-rit-ik ] Quotation: At best, we conceive happiness; never felicity, the prerogative of civilizations based on the idea of salvation, on the refusal to savour one’s sufferings, to revel in them; but, sybarites of suffering, scions of a masochistic tradition, which of us would hesitate between the Benares sermon and Baudelaire’s […]
[responsivevoice]provender [/responsivevoice] [ prov-uh n-der ] Quotation: Truly, a peck of provender to a bottle of hay: I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, Hath no fellow. William Shakespeare Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
[responsivevoice] chide [/responsivevoice] [chahyd ] Quotation: I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn’t English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish […]
Transition words are a grammatical concept that everyone who writes in English must know. They are pretty simple to understand once you get the hang of it. Such words and phrases help connect sentences, ideas, and other words in a way that seems meaningful to the readers. Typically, they aid the writer to advance in […]
[responsivevoice] louche [/responsivevoice] [ loosh] Quotation: They took a meandering route through the neighbourhood, louche and gentrified all at once. Boris Fisherman Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/aver-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] aver [/responsivevoice] [ uh-vur ] Quotation: I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. Robert Green Ingersoll Social […]