[responsivevoice] erstwhile [/responsivevoice] [ urst-hwahyl ] Quotation: By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed. Charles C. Mann Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
🔊 Play thorny [ thawr-nee ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘thorny’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence. (aaronkirman.com) Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is […]
[responsivevoice] decimate [/responsivevoice] [ des-uh-meyt ] Quotation: What to do with a leading business that’s challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple’s willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product’s features into a new gizmo, the iPhone. Adam […]
[responsivevoice] baleful [/responsivevoice] [ beyl-fuhl ] Quotation: The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it’s beginning to happen. Will Self Social Example: Did you miss […]
[responsivevoice] conducive [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-doo-siv ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘conducive’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is an […]
🔊 Play indict [ in-dahyt ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘indict’. 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 […]
[responsivevoice] repugnant [/responsivevoice] [ ri-puhg-nuhnt ] Quotation: Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed […]
[responsivevoice] conflation [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-fley-shuh n ] Quotation: The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students. Zadie Smith Social Example: Did you miss out on […]
🔊 Play axiomatic [ ak-see-uh-mat-ik ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘axiomatic’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is an […]
[responsivevoice]terse[/responsivevoice] [ turs ] Quotation: The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking – something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience. Joseph Pulitzer Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/renege-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/