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Word of the Week: sundowner (SŬN-dou-nər)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:12:12-04:00

Word of the Week: sundowner (SŬN-dou-nər) Definition (Noun) An alcoholic drink taken at sunset. In Context “A shower, a sundowner at the campfire, supper, and then camera maintenance and image selection make up the evening’s activity until you collapse into bed – so tired that you probably wouldn’t notice if you had to share your tent with a lion.” Uwe Skrzypczak, Wildlife Photography: On Safari with Your DSLR, 2010.

Word of the Week: sundowner (SŬN-dou-nər)Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:12:12-04:00

Word of the Week: taradiddle (TĂR-ǝ-dĭd-l)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:06:20-04:00

Word of the Week: taradiddle (TĂR-ǝ-dĭd-l) Definition (Noun) A trifling falsehood, a petty lie; a colloquial euphemism for a lie; a ‘fib.’ In Context “Party feeling is capable of making quite decent people believe any taradiddle they want to believe – even if it involves taking leave of their senses.” A. G. Gardiner, “President Wilson,” The Contemporary Review, May 1920.

Word of the Week: taradiddle (TĂR-ǝ-dĭd-l)Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:06:20-04:00

Word of the Week: puerile (PYŎŎR-īl)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:02:07-04:00

Word of the Week: puerile (PYŎŎR-īl) Definition (Adjective) Usually derogatory. Of conversation, thought, humor, etc.: befitting children rather than adults; childish, infantile, immature; unsophisticated; silly. In Context “The duke’s puerile love letters were read out, and he was mocked as a corrupt, lovesick old fool.” Kate Williams, Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain’s Greatest Monarch, 2008.

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Word of the Week: fiesty (ˈfī-stē)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T14:56:25-04:00

Word of the Week: fiesty (ˈfī-stē) Definition (adjective) chiefly Southern US and Midland US 1. a) full of nervous energy : fidgety b) touchy, quarrelsome c) exuberantly frisky 2. having or showing a lively aggressiveness : spunky In Context "She's feisty. She's bawdy. She's bodacious.... She's a bit of a wild child." Vicki Lawrence, quoted in The New York Magazine, 5 Oct. 2018

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Events for Writers-September

Stephanie Whetstone2019-11-05T15:01:28-05:00

NOW OPEN: Tiger Tea Room Princeton University Library and Campus Dining opened the doors to the Tea Room on September 9. The new venue serves coffee, tea, and assorted bakery items but also presents a new and unique service: afternoon tea. Available by reservation only, afternoon tea service will offer patrons an opportunity to enjoy a personal pot of tea along with a tiered tray of tea sandwiches, fruit tarts, butter cookies, and scones, all accompanied by jam and clotted cream. Personal French presses are available in place of tea. Daily, starting from 9/09/2019, until 10/05/2019, excluding 9/14, 9/15, 9/21, 9/22, [...]

Events for Writers-SeptemberStephanie Whetstone2019-11-05T15:01:28-05:00

Word of the Week: joiner (JOI-nər)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:14:39-04:00

WORD OF THE WEEK joiner (JOI-nər) Definition (Noun) A craftsman whose occupation is to construct things by joining pieces of wood; a worker in wood who does lighter and more ornamental work than that of a carpenter, as the construction of the furniture and fittings of a house, ship, etc. In Context "William Maugridge, for one, wanted to give up his trade as a joiner in Philadelphia, buy land outside the city, and settle down as a farmer." Jessica Choppin Roney, Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia, 2014.

Word of the Week: joiner (JOI-nər)Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-26T12:14:39-04:00

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

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