paroxytone - word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable partitive - word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word - a word having more than one meaning ...
31 Days of Freelancing: Permission to Continue December 31, 2016 What I’m listening to: Wild Thing by Tone Loc (Oh yes. I am.) This is it — our last day of 2106. I hope this year was good to you. Every year has its ups and downs, but we manage to come out of it relativel...
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THE WORD“demure” is old—it describes the sort of modest lady Victorians esteemed—but it is freshly fashionable. There are some 800,000 posts on TikTok with the tag #demure. Youngsters today are using the word with lashings of irony, invoking it to describe everything from Saturn to sun...
The simple addition of the sensory word “cringeworthy” changes thetoneof the entireheadline. Instead of yawning, you’re thinking of an awkward or embarrassing moment youreallydon’t want to relive. Let’s look at a few more modern-day examples of sharp people using sensory language to spr...
‘Its no good, Ols. I’ve tried. I’ve given it everything.’ ‘That’s just it. You’ve been trying too hard. You need to simply let go and it will happen.’ ‘That’s bollox. Just because you’re dead doesn’t make you wise.’ ...
As I mentioned in m essay, by choreographing his place in it and fitting in, Dougé manages to show, and very elegantly, too, that space is a thing, not “empty” by any means. And, earlier on the same day that I saw Aux Lointains, I had been listening to the New Yorker writer...
[Noun] person or thing found close to the Equator. [Noun] person or thing without a shadow. Webster's Online Dictionary Word of God has it that the Ascians are in fact North Americans invading the South Americans of the Commonwealth Gene Wolfe interview Abaddon N. "a place of destr...
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Also works as “you’re an idiot”, but use a different tone. Damn. I should a make a video of this. 😉 .-= Candice´s last blog ..Three-line book review: “Stardust” – Neil Gaiman =-. Reply Shannon OD Lol! Well, with you swearing by them I’ll give them a shot ...