[responsivevoice]rudimentary [/responsivevoice] [ roo-duh-men-tuh-ree ] Quotation: My parents didn’t speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the […]
[responsivevoice]rosy [/responsivevoice] [ roh-zee ] Quotation: There’s no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn’t happen, but I believe we don’t have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, ‘Game over.’ Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come. […]
[responsivevoice]sacrosanct [/responsivevoice] [ sak-roh-sangkt ] Quotation: If you don’t have ample liquidity, and it’s not durable, in times of stress, as you’re looking for liquidity, you’re forced to sell assets at declining prices, which then eats into your capital position, so it becomes this very, very negative cycle. There’s no question that liquidity is sacrosanct. […]
[responsivevoice]devolution [/responsivevoice] [ dev-uh-loo-shuh n ] Quotation: The reason I say ‘never say never’ is because I do not think that there should be another independence referendum in Scotland – I do not think it’s in their interest – but on the other hand, I am a big believer in devolution. Andrea Leadsom Social Example: Did […]
[responsivevoice]scourge [/responsivevoice] [ skurj ] Quotation: It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia. […]
[responsivevoice]avowal [/responsivevoice] [ uh-vou-uh l ] Quotation: You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that’s lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that’s lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely […]
[responsivevoice]fevered [/responsivevoice] [ fee-ver ] Quotation: All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society. Vincent Bugliosi Social Example: Did you miss out on […]
[responsivevoice]contingent [/responsivevoice] [ kuh n-tin-juh nt ] Quotation: Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. Charles Baudelaire Social Example: Did you miss out on reading this Word […]
[responsivevoice]attune[/responsivevoice] [ uh-tyoon ] Quotation: I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans… have lost touch with. It’s a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware […]
[responsivevoice]flagrant[/responsivevoice] [ fley-gruhnt ] Quotation: If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear – such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with. […]