[responsivevoice]perusal[/responsivevoice] [ puh-roo-zuh l ]
The word of the day is ‘perusal’.
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. Scrutiny
2. Reading
3. Research
4. The action of reading or examining something
1. I will send you these letters for your perusal in a few days.
2. I continued my perusal of the instructions
3. I have enclosed you a piece of rhyming ware for your perusal.
4. The whole poem is bathed in beauty and invites perusal after perusal.
5. Yet we confess that the perusal of these volumes has disappointed us.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
examination, inspection, research, survey, reading, scrutiny, study, scanning, review, read, look, scan, glance, skim, browse etc.
ignorance, neglect
Quotation:
We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio – all that noise, that artifice.
F.Sionil Jose
Social Example:
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