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listing. Below are Word of the Day entries. In this
section, you will also find a
Quote of the Day
and fun trivia
for kids.
Vocabulary Word of the Day -
January
curtail (verb): To limit, shorten, or truncate;
to restrict.
"Their efforts to curtail spending didn't
quite succeed."
monomania (noun): Pathological
obsession with a single subject or idea;
Excessive concentration of interest upon one particular subject or idea.
"One of the themes in the book was the necessity for a leader to be passionate
about the work. And sometimes in a corporate setting, passion becomes monomania."
aesthete (noun):
One having or affecting great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.
"Beijing, with its stolid, square buildings and wide, straight roads, feels like
the plan of a first-year engineering student, while Shanghai's decorative
architecture and snaking, narrow roads feel like the plan of an aesthete."
dictum (noun): An
authoritative statement; a formal pronouncement.
"I have taken to heart Francis Bacon's dictum
that "truth emerges more readily from error than from
confusion".
strapper (noun): A powerfully built, robust person.
" Grandmother described everyone in larger-than-life terms. Even scrawny
Bill from down the block was "a regular strapper."
solace (noun): Comfort in time of grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety.
"Surrounded by unhappiness at home, John Sr. early on found
solace and certainty
in the realm of science and technology."
opprobrium (noun): Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt.
"Five months after Malaysia incurred global opprobrium by closing off its
currency and capital markets, its officials are in no mood to apologize."
vertiginous (adjective):
Affected with vertigo; giddy;
Causing or tending to cause dizziness.
"But up close the building is impossibly steep, vertiginous, hostile."
-- Neil Baldwln, Legends of the Plumed Serpent
Ebb (noun): The receding movement of the tide; a gradual
decline.
"She has been with me through the ebb and flow
of my fortunes."
engender (verb): To be produced
or caused:
"The conditions that lead to my parents' divorce were
engendered by their obsessive attitude toward
work."
germinate (verb): To begin to raise or
grow.
"As time passed and my influence grew, I was able to
germinate a strong consensus in our party that
socialism was inevitable."
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