[responsivevoice] minutia [/responsivevoice] [ mi-noo-shee-uh ] Quotation: All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise, we might as well just make documentaries. Jeremy Northam […]
🔊 Play careen [ kuh-reen ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘careen.’ What is this word’s grammar? The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? Yes, the past form of the word is […]
[responsivevoice] triptych [/responsivevoice] [ trip-tik] Quotation: One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy – or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use – is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy […]
[responsivevoice] perfidy [/responsivevoice] [ pur-fi-dee ] Quotation: Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky Social Example: Did you miss out […]
[responsivevoice] infer [/responsivevoice] [ in-fur ] Quotation: Hardships of early human life favoured the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own […]
Undoubtedly, we should all try and reduce the use of negative words in our speaking and writing. But there is something that we just do not like and want to express that feeling. At such times, we resort to some frequently used words like bad, dirty, no, refuse, etc. While it should be our effort […]
We all visit a number of places in a lifetime, but somehow, we are not aware of what we call such places that collect a certain item or is a specific location for performing certain tasks. There are many words denoting places that we come across in our routine lives, but need to learn their […]
[responsivevoice] homage [/responsivevoice] [hom-ij ] Quotation: Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for undivided mankind. Erik Erikson Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/convivial-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] convivial [/responsivevoice] [kuhn-viv-ee-uhl ] Quotation: I didn’t like filtering the story through me, saying, ‘Reader, you’ll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it’ll be okay because, after all, you’re with me, because I’m a warm convivial voice. But let’s be entertained by this horrible stuff.’ I didn’t like that. Michael Winter […]
[responsivevoice] invidious [/responsivevoice] [in-vid-ee-uh s ] Quotation: Though it might be invidious to mention individuals, yet I may be allowed to say how much I owe to the constant help of my wife, not quite my first, but much my most consistent collaborator, and over the longest period of years. Robert Robinson Social Example: Did you miss […]