August 2019 – Princeton Writes

Word of the Week: insuperable (in-SOO-puh-ruh-bul)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:19:51-04:00

Word of the Week: insuperable (in-SOO-puh-ruh-bul) Definition (adjective) Incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved In Context "'Life and Fate,' his resulting magnum opus, is not likely to be unseated as the greatest Second World War novel ever written. Grossman's challenge over the ten years of its composition seems nearly insuperable: to evoke the scope and magnitude of the conflict without turning his characters into cogs in a vast military machine." Sam Sacks, The New Yorker, 25 June 2013

Word of the Week: insuperable (in-SOO-puh-ruh-bul)Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:19:51-04:00

Word of the Week: boilerplate (BOY-ler-playt)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:20:58-04:00

Word of the Week: boilerplate (BOY-ler-playt) Definition (noun) 1.syndicated material supplied especially to weekly newspapers in matrix or plate form 2. a) standardized text b) formulaic or hackneyed language 3. tightly packed icy snow In Context "'I think the middle class is getting clobbered,' he said one day, over lunch. 'I think there has to be a significant change in both, over time, fiscal policy and tax policy.' He was trying to get that view 'further insinuated into the White House,' he said. It seemed like boilerplate, and I didn't quote it." Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2019

Word of the Week: boilerplate (BOY-ler-playt)Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:20:58-04:00

Word of the Week: flounce (FLOUNSS)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:22:05-04:00

Word of the Week: flounce (FLOUNSS) Definition (verb) 1. to move with exaggerated bouncy motions 2. to go with sudden determination 3. flounder, struggle In Context "With skirts flouncing, 15 young women ascended the steps … to a traditional Mexican birthday song played in a mariachi style." Laurel Wamsley and Vanessa Romo, NPR, 19 July 2017

Word of the Week: flounce (FLOUNSS)Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:22:05-04:00

Word of the Week: supersede (soo-per-SEED)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:23:07-04:00

Word of the Week: supersede (soo-per-SEED) Defintion (verb) 1. a) to cause to be set aside b) to force out of use as inferior c) to take the place or position of d) to displace in favor of another In Context "This park also supersedes what must have been the world's cleverest playground—a 10-foot-high fort made of telephone poles or logs up the hill at Rocky Ridge Park. (That simple, but popular play area was dismantled. Kids kept getting their heads stuck between the poles.)" Jim McClure, The York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record, 5 May 2019

Word of the Week: supersede (soo-per-SEED)Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:23:07-04:00

Word of the Week: insuperable (in-SOO-puh-ruh-bul)

Word of the Week: boilerplate (BOY-ler-playt)

Word of the Week: flounce (FLOUNSS)

Word of the Week: supersede (soo-per-SEED)

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