[responsivevoice] catachresis [/responsivevoice] [ kat-uh-kree-sis ] Quotation: His catachresis method to repudiate her sentiments made her ears go blind. She is now unable to see the voice of heartbeats of someone who wants to be with her. She is now unable to hear the feelings of his, who now wants to be only hers. Shrawanidas […]
[responsivevoice] burgeon [/responsivevoice] [ bur-juhn ] Quotation: Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up the former wilderness. Mark Shand Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this […]
[responsivevoice]concomitant [/responsivevoice] [ kon-kom-i-tuhnt ] Quotation: Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world. It is entirely independent of personal belief. There is a very important, fundamental concomitant – that is to accept absolutely nothing whatsoever, for which there is no evidence, as having any fundamental validity. Harry Kroto […]
[responsivevoice]threnody [/responsivevoice] [thren-uh-dee ] Quotation: The dear life shall go not into its decline but shall stay persistent. This threnody is a sign of a scar. Life retires to last not in scar but in happiness. Anonymous Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/frugality-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] frugality [/responsivevoice] [ froo-gal-i-tee ] Quotation: Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come to the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give? Orison Swett Mardon Social Example: Did you miss out […]
[responsivevoice] sybaritic [/responsivevoice] [ sib-uh-rit-ik ] Quotation: At best, we conceive happiness; never felicity, the prerogative of civilizations based on the idea of salvation, on the refusal to savour one’s sufferings, to revel in them; but, sybarites of suffering, scions of a masochistic tradition, which of us would hesitate between the Benares sermon and Baudelaire’s […]
[responsivevoice]provender [/responsivevoice] [ prov-uh n-der ] Quotation: Truly, a peck of provender to a bottle of hay: I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, Hath no fellow. William Shakespeare Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
[responsivevoice] chide [/responsivevoice] [chahyd ] Quotation: I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn’t English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish […]
[responsivevoice] louche [/responsivevoice] [ loosh] Quotation: They took a meandering route through the neighbourhood, louche and gentrified all at once. Boris Fisherman Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/aver-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] aver [/responsivevoice] [ uh-vur ] Quotation: I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. Robert Green Ingersoll Social […]