"Moist" was recently named one of the ugliest words in the English language. The word sounds dirty, and its meaning is not all that great. So, you could say it loses on both counts. Some words sound beautiful but have ugly meanings. Take, for ...
SERENDIPITY meaning: luck that takes the form of finding valuable or pleasant things that are not looked for
Next to Christmas-day, the most pleasant annual epoch in existence is the advent of the New Year. There are a lachrymose set of people who usher in the New Year with watching and fasting, as if they were bound to attend as chief mourners at the obsequies of the old one. Now, we can...
Game has very simple rules: you need to clear screen from words, which are removed in pairs. There are 28 pairs which are linked to each other by meaning. Note that not every combination is correct - words may remain at the end, so it's best to start with pairs which are beyond dou...
Game has very simple rules: you need to clear screen from words, which are removed in pairs. There are 28 pairs which are linked to each other by meaning. Note that not every combination is correct - words may remain at the end, so it's best to start with pairs which are beyond dou...
Said school stated that epilepsy, which derives from the Greek word epilambanein, meaning “to take hold”, was a result of an overflow of phlegm in the brain and argued that the disease, which was called at the time “the sacred disease”, was no more divine that other diseases, ...