Petulance peCHələns noun Other forms of the word: petulancy (noun) petulantly (adverb) Definition: Being childishly sulky or bad tempered in behavior; peevishness Example: The child took on a petulance tone when told she couldn’t have any candy. A good way to remember: Think of a...
struggling to enhance your speaking or writing skills, this blog is dedicated to you. It features all essential resources that would enable to quick-start your learning journey. Adjectives play a vital role in expressing ourselves and describing the world around us...
Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened...
Tone - for example, John Steinbeck in 'The Grapes of Wrath' uses a sad and desperate tone when describing 'scarred' earth, 'last rain', and 'gray' country. Got it Missed it An author could describe a 'passionate' sunset, 'scarlet' flowers, 'decadent' chocolate, and 'softly glowing' ...
A digital signal generator that produces multifrequency tones in the voice band range for use in telephone station sets utilizing multitone dialing. Amplitude information describing each of eight voice band frequencies is digitally encoded into a sequence of multi-bit words describing the amplitude at...
LOLWUT: a piece of art inside a database command antirez 2266 days ago. The last few days have been quite intense. One of the arguments, about the dispute related to replacing or not the words used in Redis replication with different ones, was the following: is it worthwhile to do work...
Have you read the new listicle I've written about the greatest video games of all time! Don't read that listicle. It's just clickbait! That listicle has an impressive title, but it doesn't really expand on the points it makes. It's more li...
Repetition is ideal when it comes to good communication skills, especially repeating the last three words of a conversation; this is known as "The Echo Effect." Simply repeating the last two or three words an individual said in a sympathetic, questioning tone will allow the conversation to go...
Base- the main part of the word that can stand alone: friend. Suffix- letters added to the end of a word: ly. Notice that the prefix applies a negative tone to the base word and the suffix indicates that the word is describing an action. Thus, the prefix and suffix add meaning to ...
One year ago I paused my programming life and started writing a novel, with the illusion that my new activity was deeply different than the previous one. A river of words later, written but more often rewritten, I’m pretty sure of the contrary: programming big systems and writing novels ...