[responsivevoice] dereliction [/responsivevoice] [ der-uh-lik-shuh n ]
The word of the day is ‘dereliction’.
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Abandonment
2. Negligence
3. Delinquency
4. The shameful failure to fulfil one’s obligations.
1. But the dereliction of hope is not the worst enemy of a virtuous woman.
2. He had no reason and only a very poor excuse to offer for his dereliction.
3. A 15th-century farmhouse has been saved from dereliction.
4. The prosecution team were guilty of dereliction of duty for failing to disclose evidence.
5. He bitterly reproached his valet for this dereliction of duty.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
desertion, desolation, forsaking, relinquishment, evasion, negligence, carelessness, nonperformance, dilapidation, disrepair, decrepitude, deterioration, ruin, rack and ruin, abandonment, neglect, disuse, rejection, forsaking, neglect, neglectfulness, delinquency, failure, remissness, lack of care, laxity, laxness, sloppiness, slackness, irresponsibility, oversight, omission, misconduct, unprofessionalism, slip-up etc.
fulfilment, attentiveness, assiduousness, caution, achieve, contemplate, retention, observance, circumspection, preservation
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:
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