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by Dr. Goodword
Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:45 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Luftmensch
Replies: 4
Views: 728

Luftmensch

• luftmensch • Pronunciation: luft -mench • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. An airhead, a contemplative person whose head is in the clouds and has little if any idea of practical matters, like earning a living. 2. A petty tradesman, peddler, unsuccessful businessperson. Notes: Today's wor...
by Dr. Goodword
Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Prestige
Replies: 3
Views: 278

Prestige

• prestige • Pronunciation: pres- teezh • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, mass (no plural) Meaning: High level of respect, importance, great influence, high standing in the eyes of others, commanding position. Notes: Here is a French word copied by English so recently (early 19th century) that the F...
by Dr. Goodword
Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Contrary
Replies: 1
Views: 135

Contrary

• contrary • Pronunciation: kahn -trer-ri • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Opposed, counter, extremely divergent. 2. Willful, perverse, tending to be far away from general behavior. Notes: This word is often confused with opposite. Opposite refers to things that are altogether diffe...
by Dr. Goodword
Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Egoist
Replies: 2
Views: 197

Egoist

• egoist • Pronunciation: ee -go-ist • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. Someone who is conceited, self-centered, wrapped up in him- or herself; a person with an inflated ego. 2. A person who subscribes to the theory of egoism, the philosophy that self-interest is the basis of all morality....
by Dr. Goodword
Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:57 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Dehiscent
Replies: 1
Views: 150

Dehiscent

• dehiscent • Pronunciation: dee- hi -sênt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Gaping open, wide open. 2. (Botany) Bursting open at ripening to allow seeds to escape, as 'a plant with dehiscent pods'. Notes: Today's word is the adjective from the verb dehisce "to gape or burst ope...
by Dr. Goodword
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:29 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Continual
Replies: 0
Views: 374

Continual

• continual • Pronunciation: kên- tin -yu-êl • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Repeated over a long period of time, continuing at intervals. Notes: Continual is often confused with continuous . However, the meanings of these two words differ significantly and they cannot be used correct...
by Dr. Goodword
Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:06 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Bathos
Replies: 1
Views: 366

Bathos

• bathos • Pronunciation: bay -thos • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, mass Meaning: The major dictionaries fail to agree on the meanings of today's word, but they seem to hover about these: 1. Lowest depth, bottom. 2. A dramatic or ludicrous fall from the exalted to the ordinary. 3. Banality, triten...
by Dr. Goodword
Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:10 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Flourish
Replies: 3
Views: 218

Flourish

• flourish • Pronunciation: flê -rish • Hear it! Part of Speech: Verb, noun Meaning: 1. To grow luxuriantly, thrive. 2. To prosper, blossom, succeed excessively, to fare extremely well. 3. To make bold, sweeping movement, brandish, wave boldly. 4. (Noun) A decorative frill, ostentatiously ornamenta...
by Dr. Goodword
Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:01 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Ad-lib
Replies: 0
Views: 321

Ad-lib

• ad-lib • Pronunciation: æd-lib • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective, adverb, verb, noun Meaning: 1. (Adjective, adverb) Impromptu, spontaneous, as one pleases without preparation. 2. (Verb) To speak or otherwise present spontaneously, without preparation. 3. (Noun) Anything spoken or played spont...
by Dr. Goodword
Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: President
Replies: 0
Views: 302

President

• president • Pronunciation: pre -zê-dênt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A person elected or appointed to preside over an organization, the highest ranking member of a management team, as 'the president of the New York Stock Exchange'. 2. The chief officer of the executive branch of a ...
by Dr. Goodword
Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:20 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Abrogate
Replies: 6
Views: 266

Abrogate

• abrogate • Pronunciation: æb -rê-gayt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Verb, transitive Meaning: 1. To repeal, annul, cancel, or abolish something, such as a law. 2. To obviate, do away with, put an end to. Notes: This word has a large and happy family. The person who abrogates is an abrogator who carr...
by Dr. Goodword
Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Vulgar
Replies: 3
Views: 184

Vulgar

• vulgar • Pronunciation: vêl -gêr • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Of the unwashed masses, plebian, related to common people, the riff-raff, the hoi-polloi. 2. Common, base, ordinary. 3. Bawdy, foul, immodest, immoral, impure, indecent, indelicate, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lice...
by Dr. Goodword
Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Rivalrous
Replies: 0
Views: 307

Rivalrous

• rivalrous • Pronunciation: rai -vêl-rês • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: Related to rivalry, competitive, adversariality. Notes: Today's is a word whose infrequent usage belies its beauty. It is the adjective of rivalry, which reflects the attitudes of rivals. Rival may be used as a verb,...
by Dr. Goodword
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:36 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Dust-up
Replies: 1
Views: 278

Dust-up

• dust-up • Pronunciation: dê -stêp • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: A quarrel, a fight, a fracas. Notes: Today's Good Word is a derived noun consisting of dust and up. Usually, such nouns from verbs with prepositions come from verbs with the same prepositions, e.g. sit-in comes from the ve...
by Dr. Goodword
Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:48 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Amorous
Replies: 1
Views: 130

Amorous

• amorous • Pronunciation: æm -ê-rês • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Filled with love, in love, expressing love—anything having to do with romantic love. Notes: Yes, tomorrow is the day of love, St. Valentine's Day. We cannot let the occasion pass without acknowledgement. Amorous is t...

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