[responsivevoice]desultory[/responsivevoice] [ des-uh l-tawr-ee ] Quotation: One book at a time… though I’m usually doing the research for others while I’m writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written – and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. Bernard Cornwell […]
[responsivevoice]hubris[/responsivevoice] [ hyoo-bris ] Quotation: I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God. Miriam Defensor-Santiago Social Example: Did you […]
🔊 Play opprobrium [ uh-proh-bree-uh m ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘opprobrium’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is a noun. […]
[responsivevoice]quaint[/responsivevoice] [ kweynt ] Quotation: An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on […]
[responsivevoice]candor[/responsivevoice] [ kan-der ] Quotation: In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. Gerald R.Ford Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up […]
[responsivevoice]beguile[/responsivevoice] [ bih-gahyl ] Quotation: To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden. Joseph B.Wirthlin Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/abscond-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice]abscond[/responsivevoice] [ ab-skond ] Quotation: When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal. Mike Pompeo […]
[responsivevoice]perusal[/responsivevoice] [ puh-roo-zuh l ] Quotation: We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio – all that noise, that artifice. F.Sionil Jose Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of […]
[responsivevoice]refurbish[/responsivevoice] [ ree-fur-bish ] Quotation: I’ve been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing […]
[responsivevoice]vex[/responsivevoice] [ veks ] Quotation: It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other. John Wilkins Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch […]