[responsivevoice] warmonger [/responsivevoice] [ wawr-muhng-ger ] Quotation: I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the […]
[responsivevoice] stark [/responsivevoice] [ stahrk ] Quotation: There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician’s impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark. Christine Todd Whitman Social Example: Did you […]
[responsivevoice] spurious [/responsivevoice] [ spyoor-ee-uhs ] Quotation: We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real?’ Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated […]
[responsivevoice] retribution [/responsivevoice] [ re-truh-byoo-shuhn ] Quotation: A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn’t have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express […]
[responsivevoice] obliterate [/responsivevoice] [ uh-blit-uh-reyt ] Quotation: I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn’t matter. If we don’t act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which […]
[responsivevoice] posit [/responsivevoice] [ poz-it ] Quotation: The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature. Michael Shermer Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/sophistry-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] sophistry [/responsivevoice] [ sof-uh-stree ] Quotation: Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/beget-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] beget [/responsivevoice] [ bih-get ] Quotation: Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror. Shimon Peres Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/malfeasance-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] malfeasance [/responsivevoice] [ mal-fee-zuh ns ] Quotation: If I bring to light a company that’s poisoning customers, defrauding investors, or something like that… there just aren’t enough regulators in the world to keep up with all of the fraud and malfeasance that goes on out there, particularly in the little nooks and crannies of the market. […]
[responsivevoice] dereliction [/responsivevoice] [ der-uh-lik-shuh n ] Quotation: A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction. Klaus Schwab Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/wrangle-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/