[responsivevoice]moot[responsivevoice] [ moot ] Quotation: I don’t think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn’t any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn’t always have the discussion. Dana Perino Social Example: Did you miss out on reading […]
[responsivevoice]moribund[responsivevoice] [ mawr-uh-buhnd ] Quotation: When I went to get my master’s in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor’s Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history. […]
[responsivevoice]diffidence[responsivevoice] [ dif-i-duh ns ] Quotation: Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. Jane Austen Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/miffed-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice]miffed[responsivevoice] [ mift ] Quotation: If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever. Brian Eno Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
[responsivevoice]upend[responsivevoice] [ uhp-end ] Quotation: After the global financial crisis of 2008, populist uprisings had sprouted across Europe. Putin and his strategists sensed the beginnings of a larger uprising that could upend the Continent and make life uncomfortable for his geostrategic competitors. Franklin Foer Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of […]
[responsivevoice]subversive[responsivevoice] [ suhb-vur-siv ] Quotation: I’ve never been a popular person, but it doesn’t matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I’m not a walking publicity stunt. I’m not an anarchist, or bitter. I’m not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, […]
[responsivevoice]mitigate[responsivevoice] [ mit-i-geyt ] Quotation: To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. Tryon Edwards Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/affinity-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice]affinity[responsivevoice] [ uh-fin-i-tee ] Quotation: My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. David Crosby […]
[responsivevoice]exigency[responsivevoice] [ ek-si-juhn-see ] 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: Did you miss […]
🔊 Play chastise🔊 Play [ chas-tahyz ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘chastise’. 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 […]