[responsivevoice]exigency[responsivevoice] [ ek-si-juhn-see ]
The word of the day is ‘exigency’.
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. Difficulty
2. An urgent need or demand
3. Dilemma
4. Necessity
1. He could quiet the horses, but not a woman, in so vague an exigency.
2. But this exigency might arise again; indeed, most frequently did arise.
3. The army was entirely unprovided with any means of meeting this exigency.
4. Women worked long hours when the exigencies of the family economy demanded it.
5. His speaking was unequal and always rose with the subject and the exigency.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
contingency, vicissitude, acuteness, constrain, crisis, criticalness, demand, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, hardship, imperativeness, juncture, necessity, need, plight, predicament, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape, urgency, want, demandingness, exigence, needfulness, essential, requisite, crisis, difficulty, pressure, etc.
advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, calm, comfort, ease, peace, pleasure, plenty, solution
Quotation:
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.
Paul Rand
Social Example:
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