[responsivevoice] conflation [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-fley-shuh n ] Quotation: The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students. Zadie Smith Social Example: Did you miss out on […]
🔊 Play axiomatic [ ak-see-uh-mat-ik ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘axiomatic’. 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 […]
[responsivevoice]terse[/responsivevoice] [ turs ] Quotation: The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking – something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience. Joseph Pulitzer Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/renege-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice]expropriate[/responsivevoice] [ eks-proh-pree-eyt ] Quotation: We are determined that expropriation without compensation should be implemented in a way that increases agricultural production, improves food security, and ensure that land is returned to those from who it was taken under colonialism and apartheid. Cyril Ramaphosa Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of […]
[responsivevoice]renege[/responsivevoice] [ ri-nig ] Quotation: Claiming that Social Security benefits are safe may sound naive, but my view is actually quite cynical. I believe that as long as the elderly continue to vote in large numbers, no Congress will renege on promised payouts for those already eligible to receive benefits. Richard Thaler Social Example: Did […]
[responsivevoice]slander[/responsivevoice] [ slan-der ] Quotation: The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. Charles Caleb Colton Social Example: Did you miss out on […]
[responsivevoice]onerous[/responsivevoice] [ on-er-uhs ] Quotation: We just simply want to get back to basics, get – restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every – basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some […]
[responsivevoice]rudimentary [/responsivevoice] [ roo-duh-men-tuh-ree ] Quotation: My parents didn’t speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the […]
[responsivevoice]rosy [/responsivevoice] [ roh-zee ] Quotation: There’s no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn’t happen, but I believe we don’t have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, ‘Game over.’ Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come. […]
While the phrase twenty-twenty may not be new for cricket fans, one must know that it has meanings attached to it. Even though the word has been in existence since the year 1975, not many know what the word means in the vocabulary world. You might wonder why suddenly the buzz about twenty-twenty; so, here […]