Impious 1100 Words You Need Week 41 Day 3 /ˈɪm.pi.əs/ (adj) lacking piety or reverence, showing lack of religious respect, wicked, godless, ungodly, unholy, irreligious, sinful, immoral, unrighteous, sacrilegious, profane, blasphemous, apostate, atheistic, agnostic, pagan, faithless, irreverent First, the demonstrations suggest that Euthyphro does not have the kind of understanding of what the pious is…
Audacity 1100 Words You Need Week 38 Day 3 /ɔːˈdæs.ə.ti/ US /ɑːˈdæs.ə.ti/ (noun) the state of being brave and fearless, fearlessness, intrepidity, bravery, courage, heroism, pluck, recklessness, spirit, valor, guts, effrontery, nerve, gall, defiance, temerity, boldness, daring, courageousness, impudence, disrespect, rudeness, discourtesy It takes courage to stand up to our enemies, but it takes audacity…
Rhetoric 1100 Words You Need Week 40 Day 1 /ˈret.ər.ɪk/ US /ˈreţ.ɚ-/ (noun) persuasive speech or writing, oratory, public speaking, pretentious words and clever use of language, speechmaking, empty talk, pomposity, bombast, grandiloquence, magniloquence, the study of speaking or writing effectively, language, expression, vocabulary, exaggerated language The campaign rhetoric of Barack Obama is the rhetoric…
Fatuous 1100 Words You Need Week 40 Day 4 /ˈfæt.ju.əs/ (adj) incorrect and stupid, silly, foolish, inane, idiotic, asinine, pointless, senseless, ridiculous, absurd, ludicrous, dumb, preposterous, unintelligent, childish, meaningless At a cheese and wine party recently, my companion commented on the delicate aroma of strawberries wafting from his glass of wine. Someone nearby guffawed at…
Erudite 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 Erudite 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 /ˈer.ʊ.daɪt/ (adj) showing or having a lot of specialist knowledge or expertise, very knowledgeable through study, showing great knowledge or learning, learned, scholarly, educated, academic, intellectual, intelligent, bookish, highbrow, cerebral, brainy, well-educated, well-read Erudite Private School is…
Penury 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 Penury 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 /ˈpen.jʊ.ri/ US /-jʊr.i/ (noun) extreme poverty, neediness, indigence, pennilessness, destitution, impecuniousness, impoverishment, pauperism, privation, beggary Dr. Raja made his foster parents proud conquering penury all through his years at the Karur Municipal School and the Government Arts…
Vituperate 1100 Words You Need Week 39 Day 4 Vituperate 1100 Words You Need Week 39 Day 4 /vɪˈtju:pəreɪt/ (verb) to blame or insult vehemently, revile, scold, flay, condemn, malign, curse, attack, assault, criticize, lay into, throw the book at Trump furiously denies report he disparaged military service, vituperated and insulted dead and disabled troops…
Propriety 1100 Words You Need Week 41 Day 3 Propriety 1100 Words You Need Week 41 Day 3 /prəˈpraɪə.ti/ (noun) the quality of being socially acceptable, appropriate behavior, rules of etiquettes, modesty, good manners, respectability, decency, aptness, correctness, appropriateness, suitability, rightness, protocol, curtesy, rectitude Propriety in Adam Smith is mysterious and yet approachable. The reader…
Nascent 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 3 Nascent 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 3 /ˈnæs.ənt/ /ˈneɪ.sənt/ (adj) recently starting to grow or develop, fledgling, developing, just coming into existence, just beginning, budding, embryonic, incipient, evolving, emergent, dawning, burgeoning, promising, blossoming The nascent state is defined as a psychological process of destructuration-reorganization…
Calumny 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 3 Calumny 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 3 /ˈkæl.əm.ni/ (noun) false accusation against a person, slander, defamation, libel, false and defamatory statement about someone, character assassination, vilification, verbal abuse, revilement, backbiting, backstabbing, scandal What’s a false allegation by an employee? It’s any claim your member…