There is no doubt that if you are a fan of English literature, especially Shakespeare, then you are here. Some of you are here only because of the man and his era interests you and come to understand his novels better. If you are a reader of literary books, then you would know how some […]
[responsivevoice] gossamer [/responsivevoice] [ gos-uh-mer ] Quotation: From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend. Lucy […]
[responsivevoice] precocity [/responsivevoice] [ pri-kos-i-tee ] Quotation: Having been built in the fashion I was as a child – created and then deflated – has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a […]
[responsivevoice] maudlin [/responsivevoice] [ mawd-lin ] Quotation: I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the side of being overly sentimental than not. I think that the perfect balance is a story that moves you without being maudlin, but I don’t enjoy books that are […]
[responsivevoice] catachresis [/responsivevoice] [ kat-uh-kree-sis ] Quotation: His catachresis method to repudiate her sentiments made her ears go blind. She is now unable to see the voice of heartbeats of someone who wants to be with her. She is now unable to hear the feelings of his, who now wants to be only hers. Shrawanidas […]
[responsivevoice] burgeon [/responsivevoice] [ bur-juhn ] Quotation: Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up the former wilderness. Mark Shand Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this […]
[responsivevoice]concomitant [/responsivevoice] [ kon-kom-i-tuhnt ] Quotation: Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world. It is entirely independent of personal belief. There is a very important, fundamental concomitant – that is to accept absolutely nothing whatsoever, for which there is no evidence, as having any fundamental validity. Harry Kroto […]
[responsivevoice]threnody [/responsivevoice] [thren-uh-dee ] Quotation: The dear life shall go not into its decline but shall stay persistent. This threnody is a sign of a scar. Life retires to last not in scar but in happiness. Anonymous Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/frugality-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] frugality [/responsivevoice] [ froo-gal-i-tee ] Quotation: Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come to the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give? Orison Swett Mardon Social Example: Did you miss out […]
[responsivevoice] sybaritic [/responsivevoice] [ sib-uh-rit-ik ] Quotation: At best, we conceive happiness; never felicity, the prerogative of civilizations based on the idea of salvation, on the refusal to savour one’s sufferings, to revel in them; but, sybarites of suffering, scions of a masochistic tradition, which of us would hesitate between the Benares sermon and Baudelaire’s […]