[responsivevoice] dereliction [/responsivevoice] [ der-uh-lik-shuh n ] Quotation: A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction. Klaus Schwab Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/wrangle-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] wrangle [/responsivevoice] [ rang-guhl ] Quotation: It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the […]
[responsivevoice] bellicosity [/responsivevoice] [ bel-i-kohs ] Quotation: Back in George W. Bush’s second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them ‘the Bomber Boys.’ Joe Klein Social Example: Did you miss […]
🔊 Play fruition [ froo-ish-uhn ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘fruition’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is a noun. […]
[responsivevoice] swinging [/responsivevoice] [ swing-ing ] Quotation: Some people get into this business and they’re so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I’m going down swinging. Matt […]
[responsivevoice] parrot [/responsivevoice] [ par-uh t ] Quotation: Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person’s back is turned or having other people parrot what they say. Shoshannah Stern Social Example: Did you […]
[responsivevoice] quell [/responsivevoice] [ kwel ] Quotation: My advice for telling someone else’s story is to try not to consciously bend the story in any particular direction – to listen with an open mind, to include the good with the bad, to attempt to quell one’s biases and allow the person you’re writing about to […]
[responsivevoice] profligacy [/responsivevoice] [ prof-li-guh-see ] Quotation: I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men […]
[responsivevoice] erstwhile [/responsivevoice] [ urst-hwahyl ] Quotation: By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed. Charles C. Mann Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
🔊 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 […]