[responsivevoice] surly [/responsivevoice] [ sur-lee ] Quotation: You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behaviour is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose […]
[responsivevoice] undulate [/responsivevoice] [ uhn-juh-leyt ] Quotation: Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gently undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has travelled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. Janet Echelman Social Example: Did you miss […]
[responsivevoice] quirk [/responsivevoice] [ kwurk ] Quotation: However, my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. J. K. Rowling Social Example: Did you miss […]
[responsivevoice] nuance [/responsivevoice] [ noo-ahns ] Quotation: The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I’ll go over a piece of copy until I’ve gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind – every nuance. Casey Kasem Social Example: Did you miss out on […]
[responsivevoice] freewheeling [/responsivevoice] [ free-hwee-ling ] Quotation: Out of the ashes of the Great War came the freewheeling cultural renaissance that was the Jazz Age, but the decade-long party of flapper dresses and bootlegging came to a crashing halt with the Crash of ’29 – triggering the Great Depression and the New Deal that would […]
[responsivevoice] abate [/responsivevoice] [ uh-beyt ] Quotation: We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they are brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Social Example: Did you miss out […]
[responsivevoice] exemplify [/responsivevoice] [ ig-zem-pluh-fahy ] Quotation: It won’t do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behaviour required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require. Dee Hock Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word […]
[responsivevoice] covetous [/responsivevoice] [ kuhv-i-tuhs ] Quotation: The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous […]
[responsivevoice] elysian [/responsivevoice] [ ih-lizh-uh n ] Quotation: A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate […]
Undoubtedly, “happy” is amongst our most common emotions, and also a word that we use frequently. While the feeling should never go out of style, don’t you think the word has? That is why we want to leave you with 10 happy synonyms that will make expressing joy so much more happening. Sometimes, we just […]