Vocabulary/Words
‘bats in the bell fry’ …
“The jabbering of these finance analysts is like the fluttering of bats in the bellfry“
the untamed.
Did anyone use the word ‘excoriate’? …
Hamlet, thou thy father has much offended ___
Mother, my father thou has much offended.
Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue ____
Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
Hast thou forgot me? ___
You are the queen, your husbands brothers wife, and – were it not so, you are my mother. ….. Come, come sit you [...]
Common Negative Words which have Power
Denial Words -renounce,
Abjure – a word you use for self or another to give up, renounce, disclaim, refuse, forswear under oath, to recant …. give up bad habits ie ‘abjure sinful ways.
Proscribe - a word used by an organization to prohibit, place beyond the pale, to ban ie gambling was proscribed in the house ie banned.
Ostracize - its [...]
Disraeli – ‘with words we govern men’
Words which describe human behaviour -
Abhor — to hate and loathe something.
Condone — forgive and pardon behaviour of another.
Commiserate — sympathize with the sorrows and misfortune, misdeeds and crimes of others.
Covet — ignobly crave the possessions of another; even a wife or property of another.
Expiate — pay and atone for past sins, crimes and shortcomings.
Grovel — to abjectly humble oneself amounting to [...]
These Words are Helpful Friends …
Abstemious - sparing in the use of food and drink … ascetic, spartan, sparing .. simple .. parsimonius Altruist - opposite of egoist … regard for needs or interests of others Ambivert - in between an extrovert and introvert …Antipathy - dislike acrimony ….. anomoly ……. analogy … Atheist …… agnostic
Banal …………. benefactor…………. benediction …….. benevolence ……….. bete noire
carte blanche ……… chicanery ………… chimirecal ……… circumspectly ……….. clairvoyant ……….. complacent ………….compunction …………. concomitantly …………. crass [...]
‘noblesse oblige’
One of the most commonly used phrases in today’s English speaking world is, “You’re Welcome”, in responce to some one thanking one for this that or the other!.
Well, saying ‘Noblesse oblige’ could be a (hopefully not overly fancy or ostentatioius) way of saying the same. It could denote culture, class and erudition — depending on your [...]
Word: Raison d’être
Main Entry: rai·son d’être
Variant(s): also rai·son d’etre /”rA-”zOn-’detr&/
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural rai·sons d’être also rai·sons d’etre /-”zOnz-/
Etymology: French
: reason or justification for existence
(ray-zohnn DET-ruh) A basic, essential purpose; a reason to exist: “Professor Naylor argues that in the nuclear age, infantry forces have lost their raison d’être.” From French, meaning “reason for [...]
Word – purloin
purloin – a perhaps nicer way of saying ’steal’ or ‘theft’;
he/she purloined the silver lying on the table …..
purloiner – stealer or thief!!!
Word: Brevity
Noun
S: (n) brevity (the use of brief expressions)
S: (n) brevity, briefness, transience (the attribute of being brief or fleeting)
Word: Obtuse
S: (adj) dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow (slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity) “so dense he never understands anything I say to him”; “never met anyone quite so dim”; “although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick”- Thackeray; “dumb officials make some really dumb decisions”; “he was either normally [...]
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