[responsivevoice]Solipsism[/responsivevoice] [sol-ip-siz-uh m] Quotation: In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception. Douglas Lain Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/mendacious-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice]Mendacious[/responsivevoice] [ en-er-veyt] Quotation: An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. Russell Baker Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/enervate-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice]Enervate[/responsivevoice] [ en-er-veyt] Quotation: I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. Arthur Rimbaud Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/ingenuous-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice]Ingenuous[/responsivevoice] [ vuh-rid-i-tee ] Quotation: Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don’t grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth […]
[responsivevoice]Acrimonious[/responsivevoice] [ak-ruh-moh-nee-uh s] Quotation: My parents split up when I was young, and they are still good friends. I think it’s often projected that these things have to be so acrimonious. It’s so often not the case. Miranda Otto Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/ignominious-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice]Ignominious[/responsivevoice] [ig-nuh-min-ee-uhs] Quotation: It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. Martin Van Buren Social Example: Did you miss out on […]
[responsivevoice]Impugn[/responsivevoice] [im-pyoon] Quotation: It really is this: you are either for liberty, you’re for freedom, and you’re for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else’s rights, or you want the state to deal with everything. Dave Rubin Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
[responsivevoice]Dolor[/responsivevoice] [ doh-ler] Quotation: These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls. Jacques Delors Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/hanker-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
🔊 Play Hankering [ hang-ker ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘hanker’. What is this word’s grammar? This word is a verb i.e., it denotes an action or an occurrence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? Yes; the past form of this word […]
[responsivevoice]Vouchsafe[/responsivevoice] [vouch-seyf] Quotation: Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good. Zhang Zhidong Social Example: Did […]