After a few months of that, through a weird “six degrees of separation” coincidence, a co-worker asked to speak to me, and when we were alone, told me that her friend knew a friend of his – and that they were “together.” I was hurt, but somehow, I think I already knew. As...
she has received awards in all genres. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards and has been widely anthologised. Her first novel,The Skinny Louie Book, won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Three later novels have been shortlisted for that award,...
The term "byte" is used in its now-customary sense as a synonym for "octet". Conventions: The singular form is chosen as the preferred one for the keywords defined here. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED"...
Discomfort. That’s the real word that should be used in the majority of these situations. But as you can see above, discomfort is a synonym of pain. Looking again and I see that pressure is NOT. Why? Because nobody really wants to admit that in order to make you feel better, you ...
Actually, boat trip in Nha Trang is a synonym for “booze cruise” because the trip is much more about drinking than seeing fish. There are some choices when it comes to boat trip for tourists. For example, the most popular with those packers is the Funky Money which includes stops at ...
Since I started learning R, I wanted to play a bit with the use of R scripts in Power BI Desktop. Note that my R skills are very basic, so please don’t use this post as an example of top-notch R. At this time, there are three places in Power BI Desktop where you can use yo...
Look. I don’t know why you choose to misspell “dog” as “doge”. I’m sure you have your reasons. But once you’ve deliberately confused the word for a small furry animal with the word for the ruler of Venice, then acting like you areextremely cleverfor pointing out that the ru...
Keep your friend in mind when you run across funny jokes. Pick up the phone and tell the one about the rabbit who went into a bar or send him an email that's sure to crack him up. If you're hanging out with him, show him some funny websites that feature photos of silly cats, ...
After the word is defined, you have to come up with a synonym in the next round *synonym (Not, what you put in your Christmas hot cocoa) -A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word.
to users should be, and I realized Steve Jobs had already done it: insanely great. Steve wasn't just using "insanely" as a synonym for "very." He meant it more literally — that one should focus on quality of execution to a degree that in everyday life would be considered pathological...