[responsivevoice] irreconcilable [/responsivevoice] [ ih-rek-uh n-sahy-luh-buh l ] Quotation: Relationships shouldn’t be disposable. If there’s something worth saving – not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable – but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that. Steve Carell Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of […]
[responsivevoice] ramify [/responsivevoice] [ ram-uh-fahy ] Quotation: The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been into every corner of our minds. John Meynard Keynes Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
[responsivevoice] anomaly [/responsivevoice] [ uh-nom-uh-lee ] Quotation: In ‘Amalur,’ each person believes he has an immutable destiny, one that defines how, and how long, he will live. Until you come along. But of course, your character is the anomaly, somebody who can change both his own fate and the destinies of the people he interacts […]
[responsivevoice] empirical [/responsivevoice] [ em-pir-i-kuhl ] Quotation: Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on the story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more […]
[responsivevoice] opine [/responsivevoice] [ oh-pahyn ] Quotation: While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it’s possible that I’m a victim of my own job description. Others don’t inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money. Seth Shostak Social […]
[responsivevoice] brawl [/responsivevoice] [ brawl ] Quotation: What happened was, when I got into the brawl in Detroit, I was transitioning into a different type of person, that person that I’ve become, but that game had so many emotions involved. Metta World Peace Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
[responsivevoice] condone [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-dohn ] Quotation: We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and […]
🔊 Play disdain [ dis-deyn ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘disdain.’ 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] foment [/responsivevoice] [ foh-ment ] Quotation: ‘Robopocalypse’ explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks. Daniel H. WIlson Social Example: Did […]
[responsivevoice] malleable [/responsivevoice] [ mal-ee-uh-buhl ] Quotation: Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you’ve built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink. Brian Greene Social […]