Word of the Day:
installment
Definition: (noun) A part of a broadcast serial.
Synonyms: episode
Usage: The latest installment of my favorite television show will air this Thursday.: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
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Fontana – Arboretum Trsteno (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
An arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants that are cultivated for scientific, educational, and ornamental purposes. The plants are labeled with their common and scientific names, and they are arranged in cultural or habitat groups, such as tropical, desert, and aquatic. One of the world’s oldest arboretums is the Trsteno Arboretum, near Dubrovnik in Croatia. What arboretum in England helped inspire the design for New York City’s Central Park? More… Discuss
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| Definition: | (noun) The farthest or highest point; the apex. |
| Synonyms: | summit, height, peak, climax, pinnacle, zenith, acme |
| Usage: | It took many years for the industry to reach its apogee, but only a few more for it to become defunct. Discuss. |
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| Definition: | (adjective) Easily bent or flexed; pliable. |
| Synonyms: | bendable |
| Usage: | The connections of the several sections of the raft are slack and pliant, so that the raft may be readily bent into any sort of curve required by the shape of the river. Discuss. |
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| Definition: | (adjective) Lacking social polish; tactless. |
| Synonyms: | unpolished, graceless |
| Usage: | Wendy was quite friendly, but her lack of manners made her seem gauche in formal settings. Discuss. |
| Definition: | (adjective) Made tough by habitual exposure. |
| Synonyms: | hardened |
| Usage: | Doctors become inured to death. Discuss. |
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| Definition: | (verb) To make maliciously or knowingly false statements about. |
| Synonyms: | asperse, besmirch, defame, slander, smirch, denigrate, sully, smear |
| Usage: | Martha knew it was wrong to calumniate her former employer, but she was still so angry about being fired that she could not help herself. Discuss. |
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| Definition: | (adjective) Hardened against feeling; hardhearted. |
| Synonyms: | granitic, stony, flinty |
| Usage: | The child’s misery would move even the most obdurate heart. Discuss. |
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| 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. |
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| Definition: | (adjective) Lasting a very short time. |
| Synonyms: | fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory, transient |
| Usage: | Spare me in my ephemeral happiness, leave it to me for a few days, for a few minutes. Discuss. |
| Definition: | (adjective) Of little value or importance; paltry. |
| Synonyms: | fiddling, footling, niggling, piddling, piffling, trivial, petty, lilliputian, little |
| Usage: | Giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction. Discuss. |
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| Definition: | (noun) A person or thing that is unsurpassed or unmatched; peerless example. |
| Synonyms: | nonesuch, apotheosis, ideal, paragon, saint |
| Usage: | An ‘Only’ is a nonpareil, the feller that does one kind of a turn better’n any other feller. Discuss. |
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