🔊 Play opprobrium [ uh-proh-bree-uh m ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘opprobrium’. 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]quaint[/responsivevoice] [ kweynt ] Quotation: An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on […]
[responsivevoice]candor[/responsivevoice] [ kan-der ] Quotation: In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. Gerald R.Ford Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up […]
[responsivevoice]abscond[/responsivevoice] [ ab-skond ] Quotation: When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal. Mike Pompeo […]
[responsivevoice]perusal[/responsivevoice] [ puh-roo-zuh l ] 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: Did you miss out on reading this Word of […]
[responsivevoice]refurbish[/responsivevoice] [ ree-fur-bish ] Quotation: I’ve been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing […]
[responsivevoice]vex[/responsivevoice] [ veks ] Quotation: It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other. John Wilkins Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch […]
[responsivevoice]staid[/responsivevoice] [ steyd ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘staid’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, […]
[responsivevoice]myriad[/responsivevoice] [ mir-ee-uhd ] Quotation: In a very general way, our society has fallen out of love with the skilled trades. Part of the problem is a myriad of myths and misperceptions that surround the jobs themselves, but the biggest cause is our stubborn belief that a four-year degree is the best path for the […]
[responsivevoice]indolent[/responsivevoice] [ in-dl-uhnt ] Quotation: It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of […]