[responsivevoice] subservient [/responsivevoice] [ suh b-sur-vee-uh nt ] Quotation: The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people of Hong Kong. It has been reduced to a mere instrument of repression subservient to the political agenda of Beijing’s regime in Hong Kong. Joshua Wong Social […]
[responsivevoice] disservice [/responsivevoice] [ dis-sur-vis ] Quotation: There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you’re doing yourself a disservice when you say something like that because you never know if that thing is gonna come along and be right, but I’d be lying if I […]
[responsivevoice] exodus [/responsivevoice] [ ek-suh-duh s ] Quotation: To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the worst nightmare for me as prime minister but also for the country, of course. Enrico Letta Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this […]
[responsivevoice] absolve [/responsivevoice] [ ab-zolv ] Quotation: You know, punk bands now sell with one record – their first or second record – sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That’s why I go over to Johnny Ramone’s house and do yard work three times a […]
[responsivevoice] dissent [/responsivevoice] [ dih-sent ] Quotation: Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account – and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the […]
[responsivevoice] purposive [/responsivevoice] [ pur-puh-siv ] Quotation: Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them. Theodore Dalrymple Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/abridge-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] abridge [/responsivevoice] [ uh-brij ] Quotation: In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right. Sol Wachtler Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of […]
[responsivevoice] ameliorate [/responsivevoice] [ uh-meel-yuh-reyt ] Quotation: For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chain’s labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. Clara Zetkin Social Example: Did you miss out on reading […]
[responsivevoice] precarious [/responsivevoice] [ pri-kair-ee-uhs ] Quotation: I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than ever to the people we are trying to reach, thanks to social media and mobile technology, and more information than we know what to do with. […]
[responsivevoice] surmise [/responsivevoice] [ser-mahyz ] Quotation: For some time, I’ve said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it’s about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you […]