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Gazette

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW I cannot deny that as every Gazette gave us some accounts of the conquests and victories of this glorious prince, it prepossessed my thoughts with secret wishes of seeing him, but these were so young and unsettled, that I…

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Deference

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW The consequence I shall draw from this may, at first sight, appear a mere sophism; but upon the least examination will be found solid and satisfactory. I say then, that since we may suppose, but never can conceive a…

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Turbid

February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 AnyaWord of the Day

MW It made him feel, in the turbid coil of his fears and passions, like a muddy tramp forcing his way into some pure sequestered shrine… He came nearer, and looked at her, and she went to him. All her…

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Slipshod

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW …but there in its usual slipshod way memory failed. Author and Text I watched, too, with the fascination that things have for an observant boy, the play of his lips–they were a little oblique, and there was something “slipshod,”…

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Fathom

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW “When the late Captain Audley Coote was laying the cable from New Caledonia to Sandy Cape, at the north end of Fraser Island, on the South Queensland coast, he passed a submerged mountain 6000 feet in height, and found…

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Habeas Corpus

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW The catastrophe was terrific and instantaneous in its effect. The observatory of Dunsink registered in all eleven shocks, all of the fifth grade of Mercalli’s scale, and there is no record extant of a similar seismic disturbance in our…

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Words of the Day: February 17 – February 22 2021

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 adminWord of the Day

The OED: February 17: Meta-analysis February 18: Ice master February 19: Oliver current February 20: Sari-sari store February 21: Phronesis February 22: Sui-similar When the Black Prince went to set the exiled king of Castile into his kingdom, there was…

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Durable

February 15, 2021February 22, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW The front—in full moonlight—had the appearance of marble, and the ninety-nine names of God on the frieze stood out black, as the frieze stood out white against the sky. The contest between this dualism and the contention of shadows…

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Prothalamion

February 14, 2021February 24, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW The guests heere to the Bride-house hie.The goodly Vale of Al’sburySets her sonne (Tame) forth, braue as May,Vpon the ioyfull Wedding day:Who, deckt vp, tow’rds his Bride is gone.So louely Isis comming on,At Oxford all the Muses meet her,And…

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Limn

February 13, 2021February 24, 2021 adminWord of the Day

MW Quotations and Authors: So that they went I trow with ample satisfaction; and, as they could not but take the Emperor for a very civil, generous, and obliging Gentleman, so they thought the better of themselves from that day…

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