[responsivevoice] derision [/responsivevoice] [ dih-rizh-uh n ] Quotation: In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent most of my adolescence attempting to keep it a secret from those who might use it as a source of derision. The off-brown collared […]
[responsivevoice] avarice [/responsivevoice] [ av-er-is ] Quotation: For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. John Maynard Keynes Social […]
[responsivevoice] morose [/responsivevoice] [ muh-rohs ] Quotation: There’s always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we’d probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that’s almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings […]
[responsivevoice] imprecation [/responsivevoice] [ im-pri-key-shuh n ] Quotation: The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up […]
[responsivevoice] nexus [/responsivevoice] [ nek-suh s ] Quotation: One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of […]
[responsivevoice] apogee [/responsivevoice] [ ap-uh-jee ] Quotation: The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool – as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative. Martin Filler Social Example: Did […]
[responsivevoice] trite [/responsivevoice] [ trahyt ] Quotation: What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn’t just another game. It isn’t just another sport. It’s life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to […]
[responsivevoice] duress [/responsivevoice] [ doo-res ] Quotation: My hats off to anybody filming the action, because you get beat up. If I’m going to get the crap kicked out of me, I would love 15,000 people on hand to tell me that I’m doing good or I’m doing bad. So, if I’m going to be […]
[responsivevoice] corpulence [/responsivevoice] [ kawr-pyuh-luh ns ] Quotation: Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth. William Banting Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up […]
[responsivevoice] denigrate [/responsivevoice] [ den-i-greyt ] Quotation: There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change the culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate […]