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Distaff Side 1100 Words /ˈdɪstɑ:f/ – saɪd/ (noun & idiom) the female side of a family, the female members of a group, women’s side of a family, mother’s side of a family, womanly, feminine During Atticus’s closing remarks of the Tom Robinson trial, Atticus brings up Thomas Jefferson’s quote regarding equality among all men and…
Capricious 1100 Words You Need Week 42 Day 4 /kəˈprɪʃ.əs/ (adj) given to sudden changes, fickle, inconsistent, tending to make sudden and unexpected changes, unpredictable, changeable, variable, unreliable, whimsical, impulsive, unstable, volatile, temperamental, flighty, faddish One recent well-known case that was found to be “arbitrary and capricious” was the proposed New York City ban on…
Desultory 1100 Words You Need /ˈdes.əl.tər.i/ (adj) passing from one thing to another aimlessly and cursorily, fleeting, cursory, superficial, random, aimless, casual, haphazard, unfocused, indiscriminate Wellman left Captain Bottolfsen and his marooned sailors on Waldenoya and returned to his polar party on Martensoya in May. By this time the summer sun had warmed the pack ice into a wet…
Wan 1100 Words You Need /wɒn/ (adj) (of a person’s face) paler than usual and tired-looking, feeble, weak, down, depressed, low, doleful, washed-out, white, lifeless, listless, gray: She gave a wan smile. Antonyms: vivacious, full of life, strong Adverb: wanly Noun: wanness
Castigate 1100 Words You Need /ˈkæs.tɪ.geɪt/ (verb) to criticize someone or something strongly, reprimand, reproach, penalize, rebuke, tell off, chastise, rake over the coals, scold, chide, blame, lecture, reprove: The CEO of the company castigated his staff for not updating their information with regard to the emerging critical problem. Antonym: praise Noun: castigation Noun: castigator…
Vestige 1100 Words You Need Week 43 Day 4 /ˈves.tɪdʒ/ (noun) a trace or remnant of something that existed in the past, trace of something gone, small amount, slightest amount, sign, tinge, indication, hint, suggestion, evidence, mark In its built structure and archaeological vestiges, the Kingdom of Kongo retains the traces of its customary, colonial…
Lugubrious 1100 Words You Need /luːˈguː.bri.əs/ (adj) sad and depressed, morose, gloomy, mournful, melancholic, somber, doleful, miserable, cheerless, wretched, dismal, downbeat, depressing No such consideration can excuse my difficulty with “lugubrious.” I do recall when I first saw that one. A classmate in high school wrote in my yearbook “The vicissitudes of life are very…
Iniquity 1100 Words You Need Week 43 Day 2 /ɪˈnɪk.wə.ti/ (noun) highly unfair and immoral behavior, injustice, wickedness, immorality, sinfulness, impropriety, vice, evil, villainy, odiousness, criminality, egregiousness, reprehensibility, outrage, wrongdoing, heinousness #NutritionIsLife #JusticeIsLife #DevotedToDietetics #DevotedToJustice #ThereIsNothingYouCannotDo — I stand by these hashtags, and they are the driving force for everything I hope to bring forth…
Ostentatious 1100 Words You Need /ˌɒs.tenˈteɪ.ʃəs/ (adj) too obviously showing your money, possessions or power, in an attempt to make other people notice and admire you, showy, flamboyant, flashy, affected, brazen, grandiose, pretentious: Watch this video on YouTube. A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy, and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant…
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…