[responsivevoice]threnody [/responsivevoice] [thren-uh-dee ] Quotation: The dear life shall go not into its decline but shall stay persistent. This threnody is a sign of a scar. Life retires to last not in scar but in happiness. Anonymous Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/frugality-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] frugality [/responsivevoice] [ froo-gal-i-tee ] Quotation: Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come to the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give? Orison Swett Mardon Social Example: Did you miss out […]
[responsivevoice] sybaritic [/responsivevoice] [ sib-uh-rit-ik ] Quotation: At best, we conceive happiness; never felicity, the prerogative of civilizations based on the idea of salvation, on the refusal to savour one’s sufferings, to revel in them; but, sybarites of suffering, scions of a masochistic tradition, which of us would hesitate between the Benares sermon and Baudelaire’s […]
[responsivevoice]provender [/responsivevoice] [ prov-uh n-der ] Quotation: Truly, a peck of provender to a bottle of hay: I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, Hath no fellow. William Shakespeare Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the […]
[responsivevoice] chide [/responsivevoice] [chahyd ] Quotation: I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn’t English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish […]
[responsivevoice] louche [/responsivevoice] [ loosh] Quotation: They took a meandering route through the neighbourhood, louche and gentrified all at once. Boris Fisherman Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word of the Day? Catch up now! http://www.vocabularytoday.com/aver-meaning-usage-quotes-and-social-examples/
[responsivevoice] aver [/responsivevoice] [ uh-vur ] Quotation: I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. Robert Green Ingersoll Social […]
🔊 Play careen [ kuh-reen ] What is the word of the day? The word of the day is ‘careen.’ 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 is […]
[responsivevoice] triptych [/responsivevoice] [ trip-tik] Quotation: One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy – or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use – is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy […]
[responsivevoice] perfidy [/responsivevoice] [ pur-fi-dee ] Quotation: Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky Social Example: Did you miss out […]