[responsivevoice] freewheeling [/responsivevoice] [ free-hwee-ling ] Quotation: Out of the ashes of the Great War came the freewheeling cultural renaissance that was the Jazz Age, but the decade-long party of flapper dresses and bootlegging came to a crashing halt with the Crash of ’29 – triggering the Great Depression and the New Deal that would […]
[responsivevoice] abate [/responsivevoice] [ uh-beyt ] Quotation: We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they are brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Social Example: Did you miss out […]
Do we even count the number of times we say no in a day? People around us have multiple expectations of us, and somehow, some people end up doing the things they don’t want to do. Several people struggle with saying the word “no.” This list will take you through some creative no synonyms. But, […]
[responsivevoice] exemplify [/responsivevoice] [ ig-zem-pluh-fahy ] Quotation: It won’t do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behaviour required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require. Dee Hock Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word […]
[responsivevoice] covetous [/responsivevoice] [ kuhv-i-tuhs ] Quotation: The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous […]
[responsivevoice] elysian [/responsivevoice] [ ih-lizh-uh n ] Quotation: A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate […]
[responsivevoice] derision [/responsivevoice] [ dih-rizh-uh n ] Quotation: In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent most of my adolescence attempting to keep it a secret from those who might use it as a source of derision. The off-brown collared […]
[responsivevoice] avarice [/responsivevoice] [ av-er-is ] Quotation: For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. John Maynard Keynes Social […]
[responsivevoice] morose [/responsivevoice] [ muh-rohs ] Quotation: There’s always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we’d probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that’s almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings […]
[responsivevoice] imprecation [/responsivevoice] [ im-pri-key-shuh n ] Quotation: The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up […]