[responsivevoice] quell [/responsivevoice] [ kwel ] Quotation: My advice for telling someone else’s story is to try not to consciously bend the story in any particular direction – to listen with an open mind, to include the good with the bad, to attempt to quell one’s biases and allow the person you’re writing about to […]
We now live in an age where there is nothing like too much of anything, especially when it comes to learning. The more is always merrier. People are always trying to better their hold on the same. On the academic and learner’s front, it is becoming challenging for people to learn more words as they […]
[responsivevoice] profligacy [/responsivevoice] [ prof-li-guh-see ] Quotation: I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men […]
[responsivevoice] erstwhile [/responsivevoice] [ urst-hwahyl ] Quotation: By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed. Charles C. Mann Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
🔊 Play thorny [ thawr-nee ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘thorny’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence. (aaronkirman.com) Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is […]
[responsivevoice] decimate [/responsivevoice] [ des-uh-meyt ] Quotation: What to do with a leading business that’s challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple’s willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product’s features into a new gizmo, the iPhone. Adam […]
[responsivevoice] baleful [/responsivevoice] [ beyl-fuhl ] Quotation: The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it’s beginning to happen. Will Self Social Example: Did you miss […]
[responsivevoice] conducive [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-doo-siv ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘conducive’. What is this word’s grammar? The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence. Does the word have a past tense? What is it? No, the word is an […]
🔊 Play indict [ in-dahyt ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘indict’. 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 […]
[responsivevoice] repugnant [/responsivevoice] [ ri-puhg-nuhnt ] Quotation: Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed […]