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Post by oldarmybear on Sept 15, 2018 10:48:05 GMT -5
melancholia noun mel-un-KOH-lee-uh Definition
: a mental condition and especially a manic-depressive condition characterized by extreme depression, bodily complaints, and often hallucinations and delusions
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Post by oldarmybear on Mar 24, 2023 15:57:09 GMT -5
erotica [ ih-rot-i-kuh ]SHOW IPA
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noun (used with a singular or plural verb) written works, usually fiction, dealing with sexual love. sexually explicit art, photographs, sculptures, or the like, depicting human sexuality.
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Post by oldarmybear on Jan 19, 2024 10:32:24 GMT -5
Word of the Day : January 19, 2024
harangueplay
noun huh-RANG
What It Means
A harangue is a forceful or angry speech or piece of writing.
// After watching the popular documentary, he delivered a long harangue about the dangers of social media.
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HARANGUE in Context
'"HBO’s 'The Young Pope” … is a visually sublime but textually ridiculous horror tale in which the monster is the pontiff himself. …[H]is first public address is not the warm greeting the crowd in St. Peter’s Square hopes for, but a terrifying harangue. 'You have forgotten God!' he raves, declaring that his papacy will abandon the feel-good rhetoric of reaching out to one’s fellow man." — James Poniewozik, The New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
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Did You Know?
In Old Italian, the verb aringare meant "to speak in public," the noun aringo referred to a public assembly, and the noun aringa referred to a public speech. Aringa was borrowed into Middle French as arenge, and it is from this form that we get our noun harangue, which made its first appearance in English in the 16th century with that same "public speech" meaning. Perhaps due to the bombastic or exasperated nature of some public speeches, the term quickly developed an added sense referring to a forceful or angry speech or piece of writing, making it a synonym of rant. By the mid-17th century, the verb harangue made it possible to harangue others with such speech or writing.
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Post by oldarmybear on Mar 7, 2024 13:06:28 GMT -5
descryplay verb dih-SKRYEPrevNext What It Means Descry is a literary word that, like discover or find out, means “to come to realize or understand something.” Descry can also mean “to catch sight of.”
// In their research, the bryologists descried an association between a moss and the iron content of the rock it typically grows on.
// From the tops of the high dunes, we could just descry the ship coming over the horizon.
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Post by me on Apr 13, 2024 18:39:40 GMT -5
rapacious [ruh·pay·shuhs] excessively greedy and grasping. Featured on March 11, 2024
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