[responsivevoice]mitigate[responsivevoice] [ mit-i-geyt ] Quotation: To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. Tryon Edwards Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/affinity-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice]affinity[responsivevoice] [ uh-fin-i-tee ] Quotation: My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. David Crosby […]
[responsivevoice]exigency[responsivevoice] [ ek-si-juhn-see ] Quotation: Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant. Paul Rand Social Example: Did you miss […]
🔊 Play chastise🔊 Play [ chas-tahyz ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘chastise’. 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 […]
[responsivevoice]disavow[responsivevoice] [ dis-uh-vou ] Quotation: I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think – really, truly think – that they’re doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals. Celeste […]
🔊 Play salvage🔊 Play [ sal-vij ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘salvage’. 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 […]
[responsivevoice]radiate[responsivevoice] [ rey-dee-eyt ] Quotation: We’ve all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others – just being around them makes us happier as well. Joseph B. Wirthlin Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! […]
[responsivevoice]qualm[responsivevoice] [ kwahm ] Quotation: I have no hang-ups in life. I don’t care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don’t have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to […]
[responsivevoice]deride[responsivevoice] [ dih-rahyd ] Quotation: The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. Aldous Huxley Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this […]
[responsivevoice]stricture[responsivevoice] [ strik-cher ] Quotation: George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only ‘so much they can do’ to take care of the ‘problem.’ Henry Rollins Social Example: Did […]