I found a neat website called DailyWritingTips.com and on there they have a "word of the day" section. If you click that link above, you're brought to the archive area where you can see past words of the day.
There are tons of great words there that you may not know. I'd like you to visit that site (DailyWritingTips.com/), find a word you do not currently know (or know well), and click on it. When you do that, you'll see the word and its definition. Come back here & post the word plus its definition so we can all learn new words.
I'll start!
Word of the Day: MeritocracyMeritocracy (mĕr’ĭ-tŏk’rə-sē) is a system where the advancement of individuals is based on their performance and ability. American companies, for instance, are said to be more meritocratic than Italian ones, where nepotism (family connections) prevail.
Now you try!
10 comments:
That is a very interesting list. I have picked the word "Ostracize".
Word of the day: Ostracize: exclude someone from society or from a group of people. It comes from the Greek ostrakizein which was the practice of banishing citizen by popular vote.
Mianta
Word of the Day: Whim
by Daniel Scocco
A whim is a strange or capricious notion; a temporary eccentricity; a freak. A person or thing that has many whims can be called whimsical
Roxana Alvarez
April 14, 2010
Word of the Day: Whim
by Daniel Scocco
A whim is a strange or capricious notion; a temporary eccentricity; a freak. A person or thing that has many whims can be called whimsical
Roxana Alvarez
Word of the day: Hermatic
It's an Adjective ,and is used to described something made airtight by fusion or sealing.
Angela Richardson
Subliminal is an adjective used to describe things or stimuli that work below the threshold of consciousness, thus influencing the individual without being perceived as clear thoughts or ideas. For example you can have subliminal advertising.
Carol
Derision:
Derision is a scornful treatment of someone or something; a mockery or ridicule. The object that is being mocked can be called derision.
Melissa Lobsinger
I like this list I plan on visiting it to learn more of those words, because I do not understand most of them. The word I selected is Bilk.
Word of the Day: Bilk
Bilk is a transitive verb which means to cheat, to elude, or to evade payment.
It can also be used as a noun, where it means either a person who cheats or the cheat itself.
SHENEA WALKER
Word of the Day: Chagrin
It literally refers to the cutting pain produced by the friction of Shagreen Leather. It is widely used in a figurative way,however, where it means a strong embarrassment that is causedby failure, disappointment, or by an awkward circumstance.
Cassandra Jones
Word of the Day:Ludicrous
Ludicrous is an adjective used to describe something so absurd that it provokes laughs and mockery.One synonym is rdiculous.
Dorothea M.
Peripatetic
circumambulate, it literally means “to walk around,” has connotations of walking around *something* rather than walking about.
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