[responsivevoice] trite [/responsivevoice] [ trahyt ] Quotation: What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn’t just another game. It isn’t just another sport. It’s life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to […]
[responsivevoice] duress [/responsivevoice] [ doo-res ] Quotation: My hats off to anybody filming the action, because you get beat up. If I’m going to get the crap kicked out of me, I would love 15,000 people on hand to tell me that I’m doing good or I’m doing bad. So, if I’m going to be […]
[responsivevoice] corpulence [/responsivevoice] [ kawr-pyuh-luh ns ] Quotation: Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth. William Banting Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up […]
[responsivevoice] denigrate [/responsivevoice] [ den-i-greyt ] Quotation: There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change the culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate […]
[responsivevoice] gossamer [/responsivevoice] [ gos-uh-mer ] Quotation: From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend. Lucy […]
[responsivevoice] precocity [/responsivevoice] [ pri-kos-i-tee ] Quotation: Having been built in the fashion I was as a child – created and then deflated – has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a […]
[responsivevoice] maudlin [/responsivevoice] [ mawd-lin ] Quotation: I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the side of being overly sentimental than not. I think that the perfect balance is a story that moves you without being maudlin, but I don’t enjoy books that are […]
[responsivevoice] catachresis [/responsivevoice] [ kat-uh-kree-sis ] Quotation: His catachresis method to repudiate her sentiments made her ears go blind. She is now unable to see the voice of heartbeats of someone who wants to be with her. She is now unable to hear the feelings of his, who now wants to be only hers. Shrawanidas […]
[responsivevoice] burgeon [/responsivevoice] [ bur-juhn ] Quotation: Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up the former wilderness. Mark Shand Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this […]
[responsivevoice]concomitant [/responsivevoice] [ kon-kom-i-tuhnt ] Quotation: Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world. It is entirely independent of personal belief. There is a very important, fundamental concomitant – that is to accept absolutely nothing whatsoever, for which there is no evidence, as having any fundamental validity. Harry Kroto […]