[responsivevoice] brawl [/responsivevoice] [ brawl ] Quotation: What happened was, when I got into the brawl in Detroit, I was transitioning into a different type of person, that person that I’ve become, but that game had so many emotions involved. Metta World Peace Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
[responsivevoice] condone [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-dohn ] Quotation: We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and […]
🔊 Play disdain [ dis-deyn ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘disdain.’ 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] foment [/responsivevoice] [ foh-ment ] Quotation: ‘Robopocalypse’ explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks. Daniel H. WIlson Social Example: Did […]
Coronavirus has surely taken the world by a storm. Amidst this lock-down, the only thing that keeps us updated about the world is the news. Of course, these days, the report is a storehouse of bad news. There is so much to know, and so many discoveries are taking place every day. Not many people […]
[responsivevoice] malleable [/responsivevoice] [ mal-ee-uh-buhl ] Quotation: Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you’ve built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink. Brian Greene Social […]
[responsivevoice] surly [/responsivevoice] [ sur-lee ] Quotation: You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behaviour is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose […]
[responsivevoice] undulate [/responsivevoice] [ uhn-juh-leyt ] Quotation: Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gently undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has travelled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. Janet Echelman Social Example: Did you miss […]
[responsivevoice] quirk [/responsivevoice] [ kwurk ] Quotation: However, my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. J. K. Rowling Social Example: Did you miss […]
[responsivevoice] nuance [/responsivevoice] [ noo-ahns ] Quotation: The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I’ll go over a piece of copy until I’ve gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind – every nuance. Casey Kasem Social Example: Did you miss out on […]