[responsivevoice] serpentine [/responsivevoice] [ sur-puhn-teen ] Quotation: Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development […]
The English language keeps people in quite a pickle when it comes to certain confusing words. That is one reason why we end up mixing their use. Not that the words are wrong in any way, but, the context could be wrong. This happens because some confused words sound the same, because of their forms, […]
[responsivevoice] marauding [/responsivevoice] [ muh-raw-ding ] Quotation: I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it’s still marauding even though it’s no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires. J. I. Packer Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this […]
[responsivevoice] anathema [/responsivevoice] [ uh-nath-uh-muh ] Quotation: In fact, if you think hard about it, animal conservation should actually be anathema to the Darwin-loving liberal agenda, which holds up evolution – and not altruistic compassion – as the final word on the survival of a species. S.E.Cupp Social Example: Did you miss out on reading […]
We are all so busy in learning new and advanced words in our daily lives, that we sometimes forget to focus on the basics. Why not have avocabulary list to glance at when you are looking for a very common word for a particular context? This list includes a unique science and arts vocabulary. Science […]
[responsivevoice] flip [/responsivevoice] [ flip ] Quotation: You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That’s what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don’t go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they’re not going to have that imagination. […]
[responsivevoice] warmonger [/responsivevoice] [ wawr-muhng-ger ] Quotation: I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the […]
[responsivevoice] stark [/responsivevoice] [ stahrk ] Quotation: There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician’s impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark. Christine Todd Whitman Social Example: Did you […]
[responsivevoice] spurious [/responsivevoice] [ spyoor-ee-uhs ] Quotation: We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real?’ Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated […]
[responsivevoice] retribution [/responsivevoice] [ re-truh-byoo-shuhn ] Quotation: A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn’t have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express […]