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Word of the Week: fatuous (FĂCH-ōō-əs)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:31:59-04:00

Word of the Week: fatuous (FĂCH-ōō-əs) Definition (Adjective) Of persons, their actions, feelings, utterances, etc.: Foolish, vacantly silly, stupid, besotted. In Context "Our city governments are, in many instances, foul cancers on the body politic; and for us to boast of having solved the problem of local self-government is as fatuous as for a strong man to exult in his health when his body is covered with running sores." James M. Beck, The Constitution of the United States, 1924.

Word of the Week: fatuous (FĂCH-ōō-əs)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:31:59-04:00

Word of the Week: avatar (ĂV-ə-tär)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:30:15-04:00

Word of the Week: avatar (ĂV-ə-tär) Definition (Noun) Manifestation in human form; incarnation. In Context "Black music was everywhere in New York in the mid-1920s as an avatar of the contemporary moment." Todd Decker, Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical, 2013.

Word of the Week: avatar (ĂV-ə-tär)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:30:15-04:00

Word of the Week: stupefy (STŌŌ-pə-fī)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:27:06-04:00

Word of the Week: stupefy (STŌŌ-pə-fī) Definition (Verb) To make stupid or torpid; to deprive of apprehension, feeling, or sensibility; to benumb, deaden. In Context "Before the introduction of anaesthesia during the nineteenth century, a mixture of opium and alcohol was extensively used to stupefy surgical patients and to shield them from the pain of operations." Martin Plant, Roy Robertson, Moira Plant, and Patrick Miller, Drug Nation: Patterns, Problems, Panics, and Policies, 2011.

Word of the Week: stupefy (STŌŌ-pə-fī)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:27:06-04:00

Word of the Week: ineffable (in-EFF-uh-bul)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:25:08-04:00

Word of the Week: ineffable (in-EFF-uh-bul) Definition (Adjective) 1. a) incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable b) inexpressibly bad : unspeakable 2. not to be uttered : taboo In Context "Such haziness was inevitable, because the questions Buber was trying to answer were the most ineffable ones of human life: What is the meaning of our existence? How can we achieve the feeling of wholeness that we so painfully lack?" Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2019

Word of the Week: ineffable (in-EFF-uh-bul)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:25:08-04:00

Word of the Week: quibble (KWIB-ul)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:22:56-04:00

Word of the Week: quibble (KWIB-ul) Definition (verb) 1. to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words 2. a) to find fault by raising trivial or frivolous objection b) to engage in a petty quarrel : bicker 3. to subject to minor objections or criticisms Context "A few researchers and doctors have also quibbled with some of the details in the dietary advice…." Eliza Barclay, Vox.com, 24 Jan. 2019

Word of the Week: quibble (KWIB-ul)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:22:56-04:00

Word of the Week: abhorrent (ab·hor·rent \ -ənt)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:52:41-04:00

Word of the Week: abhorrent (ab·hor·rent \ -ənt) Definition (Adjective) 1 : causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred : being so repugnant as to stir up positive antagonism 2 : not agreeable : contrary 3 a : feeling or showing strong dislike or hatred b archaic : strongly opposed In Context class="cite-example">"The Syrian Regime has a history of using chemical weapons against its own people in the most cruel and abhorrent way." — CNN, "READ: UK Prime Minister Theresa May's statement on Syria strikes," 14 Apr. 2018

Word of the Week: abhorrent (ab·hor·rent \ -ənt)Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:52:41-04:00

Word of the Week: kakistocracy (kakə̇ˈstäkrəsē)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:50:11-04:00

Word of the Week: kakistocracy (kakə̇ˈstäkrəsē) Definition (Noun) government by the worst people In Context "Whether this partakes more of an aristocracy, or caucocracy, or rather Kakistocracy, is a problem, in the solution of which, he may find some amusement and employment of his genius." — The Weekly Aurora, (Philadelphia, PA), 31 Oct. 1815

Word of the Week: kakistocracy (kakə̇ˈstäkrəsē)Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:50:11-04:00

Word of the Week: vocation (voh-KAY-shun)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:54:57-04:00

Word of the Week: vocation (voh-KAY-shun) Definition (noun)1. a) summons or strong inclination to a particular state or course of action; especially : a divine call to the religious life. b) an entry into the priesthood or a religious order 2. a) the work in which a person is employed : occupation b) the persons engaged in a particular occupation 3. the special function of an individual or group In Context "The superpower I've always wished for is invisibility, and I chose my vocation accordingly. A novelist gets 140,000 words per one tiny author photo. That's a visibility ratio I can live with." [...]

Word of the Week: vocation (voh-KAY-shun)Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:54:57-04:00

Word of the Week: cathexis (kuh-THEK-sis)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:35:17-04:00

Word of the Week: cathexis (kuh-THEK-sis) Definition (Noun) investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea In Context "In 2004, Bowie had a heart attack, and he was recently rumored to be in poor health. Leading up to the release of 'The Next Day,' a jittery cathexis formed. Do we judge Bowie as we always have, by his own standards? Would a new album be received reverentially, like those of the post-motorcycle-crash Bob Dylan?" — Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2013

Word of the Week: cathexis (kuh-THEK-sis)Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:35:17-04:00

Word of the Week: accoutrement (ə-ˈkü-trə-mənt , -ˈkü-tər-mənt)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:32:24-04:00

Word of the Week: accoutrement (ə-ˈkü-trə-mənt , -ˈkü-tər-mənt) Definition (Noun) equipment or clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing In Context The umbrella of the title refers, of course, to the Penguin’s signature prop, which we see him carrying in the opening scene while flanked by two new flunkies, signaling his continuing evolution toward his supervillain destiny. But the accoutrement also functions as a handy metaphor for both the Penguin’s unparalleled ability to shield himself from trouble and the broad shadow the little man is casting across Gotham City. Everything in Monday’s episode sprang [...]

Word of the Week: accoutrement (ə-ˈkü-trə-mənt , -ˈkü-tər-mənt)Stephanie Whetstone2023-04-25T14:32:24-04:00

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