🔊 Play thorny [ thawr-nee ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘thorny’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence. (aaronkirman.com) Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is […]
[responsivevoice] decimate [/responsivevoice] [ des-uh-meyt ] Quotation: What to do with a leading business that’s challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple’s willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product’s features into a new gizmo, the iPhone. Adam […]
[responsivevoice] baleful [/responsivevoice] [ beyl-fuhl ] Quotation: The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it’s beginning to happen. Will Self Social Example: Did you miss […]
[responsivevoice] conducive [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-doo-siv ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘conducive’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is an […]
🔊 Play indict [ in-dahyt ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘indict’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? Yes, the past form of the word […]
[responsivevoice] repugnant [/responsivevoice] [ ri-puhg-nuhnt ] Quotation: Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed […]
Everything about the words ‘extra’ and ‘ordinary’, combining as extraordinary, intrigues those who crave to learn more. Apart from just knowing words, every English learner is always on the lookout to edify themselves with a unique vocabulary. Well, if such is your mindset too, then there is nothing that can stop you from have the […]
[responsivevoice] conflation [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-fley-shuh n ] Quotation: The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students. Zadie Smith Social Example: Did you miss out on […]
Without a doubt, we enjoy a bit of weirdness in life. No matter how strange it sounds, we still find interest in knowing about it more. But why does one need to know about the weirdest words in English? Well, there is no harm in upgrading your vocabulary. How does it matter if the words […]
🔊 Play axiomatic [ ak-see-uh-mat-ik ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘axiomatic’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is an […]