Heartbreak isn’t an easy fix. There’s no simple solution, but it helps to know that others have experienced – and survived – similar pain. Are you looking for ways to let your heartbreak have its moment, so you can progress past the pain? Here’s a list of ten words associated wi...
When rephrasing a line from James Weldon Johnson’s poem “The Prodigal Son,” Johnny Cash said, “My arms are too short to box with God.” Although your first thought when landing here might have been to find words for the physical description of arms, consider also the deeper meaning t...
The participants were interviewed in person with an open-ended question format to describe, in their own words, perceived social support they received as sexual minorities. Support was organized into four types, those fulfilling concrete, emotional, financial, or informational needs. Content analysis ...
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I had never given so much thought to a single word before—regardless of the language. Until a couple of years ago, to me, “silence” was either just a word used to describe the absence of noise, refraining from speaking (keeping silent), or the title of a very long movie directed ...
The Oxford Language dictionary defines the word “soul” as the spiritual part of a human being that’s regarded as immortal. I was always fascinated as to why airline pilots, when making distress calls to the towers, refer to the people on board as souls. One reason is to let emergency...
Let’s look at some words that sound quite different from what one might expect from the way that they are spelled. Audio pronunciations included.
What happened next is difficult to describe. The women and children who witnessed it could not stop raving about it till the end of their days, and the memory of what they saw passed onto legend. For, as soon as Badr’s wings attached themselves to her back, a blinding light burst fort...
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"characterized by logic, based on logic, showing or making manifest the truth or existence (of something)," from Old Frenchdémonstratif(14c.) and directly from Latindemonstrativus"pointing out, demonstrating," fromdemonstrat-, past-participle stem ofdemonstrare"to indicate, describe" (seedemonstrat...