We are all so busy in learning new and advanced words in our daily lives, that we sometimes forget to focus on the basics. Why not have avocabulary list to glance at when you are looking for a very common word for a particular context? This list includes a unique science and arts vocabulary. Science […]
[responsivevoice] flip [/responsivevoice] [ flip ] Quotation: You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That’s what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don’t go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they’re not going to have that imagination. […]
[responsivevoice] warmonger [/responsivevoice] [ wawr-muhng-ger ] Quotation: I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the […]
[responsivevoice] stark [/responsivevoice] [ stahrk ] Quotation: There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician’s impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark. Christine Todd Whitman Social Example: Did you […]
[responsivevoice] spurious [/responsivevoice] [ spyoor-ee-uhs ] Quotation: We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real?’ Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated […]
[responsivevoice] retribution [/responsivevoice] [ re-truh-byoo-shuhn ] Quotation: A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn’t have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express […]
[responsivevoice] obliterate [/responsivevoice] [ uh-blit-uh-reyt ] Quotation: I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn’t matter. If we don’t act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which […]
To begin with, let us understand what a collective noun vocabulary is; throughout our childhood, we have heard what a gathering of particular nouns is called. While we do know a few basic ones like a herd of cow and a hive of bees, we don’t know many others. This list will not just refresh […]
[responsivevoice] posit [/responsivevoice] [ poz-it ] Quotation: The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature. Michael Shermer Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/sophistry-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] sophistry [/responsivevoice] [ sof-uh-stree ] Quotation: Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/beget-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/