Follow TheFreeDictionary.com - Word Of The Day, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/thefreedictionary-com-d-word-of-the-day Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:19:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZykSF_kXzVSsb1naedg1wr Definition: (adjective) Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable.
Synonyms: inescapable, unavoidable.
Usage: Those war plans rested on a belief in the ineluctable superiority of the offense over the defense.
Discuss]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZykSF_kXzVSsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rbgda_SFOAtJuT5HJgy6HUf Definition: (adjective) Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability.
Synonyms: bristly, prickly, waspish.
Usage: The splenetic tone of the complaint letter made James dread meeting its author in person.
Discuss]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rbgda_SFOAtJuT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RaLig2738teLJVjH6qdYdAk Definition: (verb) Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges.
Synonyms: acquit, exculpate, discharge, clear.
Usage: After the long trial, the suspect was exonerated of the murder charges, much to his relief.
Discuss]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RaLig2738teLJVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RasdJ3qFLRgeOT5HJgy6HUf Definition: (adjective) Hardened against feeling; hardhearted.
Synonyms: granitic, stony, flinty.
Usage: The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart.
Discuss]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RasdJ3qFLRgeOT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RawRfLnfjfHT5s0ohxaO6Yr Definition: (verb) Write carelessly.
Synonyms: scribble.
Usage: The note that my brother scrawled before his quick exit was unreadable.
Discuss]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RawRfLnfjfHT5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYrdsLay9cc2-T5HJgy6HUf Definition: (noun) Harshness of manner; ill temper or irritability.
Synonyms: sharpness.
Usage: Mr. Nickleby looked very indignant at the handmaid on being thus corrected, and demanded with much asperity what she meant.
Discuss]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYrdsLay9cc2-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZJWGw1e3ANxClmFkX7M1Jw Definition: (noun) Someone who shirks duty.
Synonyms: nonattender, no-show.
Usage: As the two truants rolled up the avenue ... the sense of duties neglected added zest to their holiday.
Discuss]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZJWGw1e3ANxClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Ra8a-FN9dpYQXn9ye8UNv30 Definition: (noun) A state or feeling of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness.
Synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness.
Usage: Her rapid footsteps shook her own floors, and she routed lassitude and indifference wherever she came.
Discuss]]> Sun, 12 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Ra8a-FN9dpYQXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Ra703iVkG9PepVjH6qdYdAk Definition: (adjective) Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules.
Synonyms: donnish, academic.
Usage: Pedantic and hypercritical, meddlesome and fault-finding, he was a terror to the clerks under him.
Discuss]]> Sat, 11 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Ra703iVkG9PepVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZDKUeMwK1Hx11cWWor9YPv Definition: (adjective) Showing a brooding ill humor.
Synonyms: glowering, moody, morose, sullen, glum, dour, sour, dark.
Usage: Since he had heard of Lilla's death, the gloom of his remorse had made more hopeless his cruel, selfish, saturnine nature.
Discuss]]> Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZDKUeMwK1Hx11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYkO91yOwkh_l1cWWor9YPv Definition: (adjective) Fond of feasting, drinking, and good company; sociable.
Synonyms: jolly, merry, festive, jovial.
Usage: Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort.
Discuss]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYkO91yOwkh_l1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZNuA0wnC6yMCejEQ2Mq9rY Definition: (noun) A high ridge of land or rock jutting out into a body of water; a headland.
Synonyms: foreland.
Usage: Two miles farther on we were stopped by the promontory which shelters the bay from the southerly winds.
Discuss]]> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZNuA0wnC6yMCejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZS1v3s1zG1TMb1naedg1wr Definition: (adjective) Secluded from the world; sheltered.
Synonyms: sequestered.
Usage: The dean said the cloistered atmosphere of the academy was doing little to prepare students for the real world.
Discuss]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZS1v3s1zG1TMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZTyGIZvhlJV-zdsCmHakzH Definition: (verb) To assign to an obscure place, position, or condition.
Synonyms: demote, bump.
Usage: After allowing the other team to score on three consecutive shots, he was relegated to the bench.
Discuss]]> Mon, 06 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZTyGIZvhlJV-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbglBn4T3wMtiejEQ2Mq9rY Definition: (noun) A gesture or movement of the body, such as a curtsy, that expresses deference or homage.
Synonyms: bow.
Usage: And so without a word he led her to the door, opened it, and bowed yet lower as she swept out, but still without a tinge of mockery in the obeisance.
Discuss]]> Sun, 05 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbglBn4T3wMtiejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rbp9F5v_VLBZ5s0ohxaO6Yr Definition: (noun) A visible symbol representing an abstract idea.
Synonyms: emblem.
Usage: The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.
Discuss]]> Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rbp9F5v_VLBZ5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rb0Po7RiK823nn9ye8UNv30 Definition: (verb) Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.
Synonyms: mute, tone down, dampen, dull.
Usage: I was up past my bedtime, so I tried to muffle my sneeze by holding my pillow over my face.
Discuss]]> Fri, 03 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rb0Po7RiK823nn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYAmRIsVNjpSaCY3L745TL_ Definition: (verb) To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vibrate.
Usage: I vacillated about what to say for so long that the man on the phone asked if I was still there.
Discuss]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYAmRIsVNjpSaCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbqwLGEqRhznSlmFkX7M1Jw Definition: (verb) Censure severely.
Synonyms: chasten, chastise, objurgate.
Usage: Often he would look back on his day of toil, and castigate himself for failing to fulfill his true purpose of the day.
Discuss]]> Wed, 01 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbqwLGEqRhznSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rbrx8fy-Xxg8Xn9ye8UNv30 Definition: (noun) A definite liking; a strong inclination.
Synonyms: preference, taste, predilection.
Usage: Our boss humored Bobby's penchant for playing jokes on people until he found himself on the receiving end of one such prank.
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