[responsivevoice]provender [/responsivevoice] [ prov-uh n-der ] Quotation: Truly, a peck of provender to a bottle of hay: I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, Hath no fellow. William Shakespeare Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
[responsivevoice] chide [/responsivevoice] [chahyd ] Quotation: I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn’t English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish […]
[responsivevoice] louche [/responsivevoice] [ loosh] Quotation: They took a meandering route through the neighbourhood, louche and gentrified all at once. Boris Fisherman Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/aver-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] aver [/responsivevoice] [ uh-vur ] Quotation: I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. Robert Green Ingersoll Social […]
[responsivevoice] minutia [/responsivevoice] [ mi-noo-shee-uh ] Quotation: All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise, we might as well just make documentaries. Jeremy Northam […]
🔊 Play careen [ kuh-reen ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘careen.’ What is this word’s grammar? The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? Yes, the past form of the word is […]
[responsivevoice] triptych [/responsivevoice] [ trip-tik] Quotation: One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy – or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use – is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy […]
[responsivevoice] perfidy [/responsivevoice] [ pur-fi-dee ] Quotation: Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky Social Example: Did you miss out […]
[responsivevoice] infer [/responsivevoice] [ in-fur ] Quotation: Hardships of early human life favoured the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own […]
Undoubtedly, we should all try and reduce the use of negative words in our speaking and writing. But there is something that we just do not like and want to express that feeling. At such times, we resort to some frequently used words like bad, dirty, no, refuse, etc. While it should be our effort […]