[responsivevoice] abate [/responsivevoice] [ uh-beyt ] Quotation: We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they are brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Social Example: Did you miss out […]
[responsivevoice] exemplify [/responsivevoice] [ ig-zem-pluh-fahy ] Quotation: It won’t do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behaviour required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require. Dee Hock Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word […]
[responsivevoice] covetous [/responsivevoice] [ kuhv-i-tuhs ] Quotation: The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous […]
[responsivevoice] elysian [/responsivevoice] [ ih-lizh-uh n ] Quotation: A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate […]
[responsivevoice] derision [/responsivevoice] [ dih-rizh-uh n ] Quotation: In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent most of my adolescence attempting to keep it a secret from those who might use it as a source of derision. The off-brown collared […]
[responsivevoice] avarice [/responsivevoice] [ av-er-is ] Quotation: For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. John Maynard Keynes Social […]
[responsivevoice] morose [/responsivevoice] [ muh-rohs ] Quotation: There’s always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we’d probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that’s almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings […]
[responsivevoice] imprecation [/responsivevoice] [ im-pri-key-shuh n ] Quotation: The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up […]
[responsivevoice] nexus [/responsivevoice] [ nek-suh s ] Quotation: One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of […]
[responsivevoice] apogee [/responsivevoice] [ ap-uh-jee ] Quotation: The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool – as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative. Martin Filler Social Example: Did […]