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Word of the Day: Caveat
| A caveat is a warning or admonition. It can also mean a detail or condition to be taken into consideration while doing something. After country icon Minnie Pearl died, Rod Harris commissioned a sta...more |
2009-12-11
Jill Came Tumbling After
| The word fall in English, both as a verb and a noun, has numerous meanings. People can fall, but so can stocks, water levels, and empires.As a noun fall can refer to the season Fall, the fall of a ...more |
2009-12-10
Word of the Day: Sift
| Sift means to separate the fine part of a substance with a sieve. It can also be used figuratively, where it means to examine something closely. As he talked, his wife, Setsuko, squatted in the rui...more |
2009-12-10
Letter Writing 101
| People have been writing letters for centuries. Before the telephone and the Internet, sending a letter (by messenger, and later by post) was the only way to communicate with someone who was geogra...more |
2009-12-09
Difference Between “inure” and “enure”
| inure: To bring (a person, etc.) by use, habit, or continual exercise to a certain condition or state of mind, to the endurance of a certain conditionFor example: Emergency room personnel become in...more |
2009-12-08
Word of the Day: Sublimate
| Sublimate, in chemistry, means to purify or refine a substance. In psychology, on the other hand, it means to direct a sexual impulse to a more accepted social activity (e.g., art or sports), thus ...more |
2009-12-08
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Thou lily-liver’d boy!
| Maya Gharpure wants to knowWhat does the term lilylivered mean?A lily-livered person is a coward, easily frightened.The term lily-livered is one of many vivid expressions we get from Shakespeare. I...more |
2009-12-07
Word of the Day: Indulge
| Indulge means to yield to a desire, to be permissive. The adjective is indulgent. The expression self-indulgent is often used to describe a person who is indulgent with her own desires. Francis mus...more |
2009-12-07
Best Foot Forward
| Someone who puts their “best foot forward” must, logically, have three or more feet.Although this is a very common phrase (the title of a 1943 Lucille Ball film, for example) it is, at ...more |
2009-12-06
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