Word: misogynist
Parts of Speech: noun
Meaning:
a person that hates women
Vocabulary Monday on Saturday: misogynist
Category: Vocabulary
Vocabulary Mondays: self-assurance
Word: self-assurance¹
Part of Speech:
Meaning:
- self-confidence.²
Word Usage:
As she sat in the chair for her interview she displayed self-assurance.
¹Thesaurus.com/browse/self-assurance
²Dictionary.com/browse/self-assurance
Vocabulary Mondays: forward-looking
Word: forward-looking
Part of Speech: adjective
Meaning:
- planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
Word Usage:
Morgan’s forward-looking gave her insight on finishing her project without glitches.
Vocabulary Mondays: misogyny
Vocabulary Mondays: pruno
Word: ¹pruno
Part of Speech: noun
Meaning:
prison/jail wine
Word Usage:
Pruno is made from bread, fruit cocktail, ketchup, apples and such.
¹wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruno
Vocabulary Mondays: appreciation
Word: ¹appreciation
Part of Speech: ²noun
Meaning:
- gratitude; thankful recognition
- the act of estimating the qualities of things and giving them their proper value.²
Word Usage:
The employees had an appreciation dinner for their manager.
¹Thesaurus.com/browse/appreciation
²Dictionary.com/browse/appreciation
Vocabulary Mondays: gratitude
Vocabulary Mondays: détente
Word: détente
Part of Speech: noun
Meaning:
- a relaxing of tension, especially between nations, as by negotiations or agreements.
Word Usage:
¹Détente presupposes that the two powers will continue to disagree but seeks to reduce the occasions of conflict.
[¹]dictionary.reference.com http:/browse/détente
Vocabulary Mondays: pansexual
Word: ¹pansexual
Part of Speech: Not sure but pansexual should be an adjective because it describes a particular quality of a word.
Meaning:
- ²is sexual attraction, sexual desire, romantic love, or emotional attraction toward people of any sex or gender identity.
- ³The Oxford Dictionary of English definition is quoted as stating ‘not limited or inhibited in sexual choice with regard to gender or activity.’
Word Usage:
Kate’s parents are upset with her because she is pansexual.
[¹][²][³]Wikipedia.com. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality
Vocabulary Mondays: surreptitiously
Recently, I purchased a new Amish love story by Kelly Long. She’s a new author for me. But I needed something to read and enjoy during moments of downtime. And the title Lilly’s Wedding Quilt intrigued me. So it was plucked off the shelf and placed into my basket with great anticipation for a romantic adventure. But my limited vocabulary has made it hard for me to enjoy the book. As I reflect upon my frustrations in having to stop reading to look for the meanings of words I probably will never use I find my behavior childish. Honesty, I feel my juvenile outlook during reading this book keeps me stagnant in building my vocabulary. So to keep me interested in reading what seems to be a great novel I have decided to use the words I do not know on Vocabulary Mondays.
Word: surreptitiously
Part of Speech: adjective
- obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- acting in a stealthy way.
- obtained by subreption; subreptitious.
Word usage in “Lilly’s Wedding Quilt”: “She blinked her eyes, licking surreptitiously at a splat of rain that dripped past her mouth, then spoke the first thing that came to her mind.”
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