In referring to singing without instrumental accompaniment, the traditional and therefore most correct spelling is from the Italian; two words, two Ps, two Ls, spelled ….
Month: February 2021
While the verbs are “absorbed” and “absorbing” both beginning with “aB” and have an “-orB” in there, the noun is either “absorption” with an “-orP” ….
Strongest of mortal men, To lowest pitch of abject fortune thou art fallen. — (John Milton [1608–1674], Samson Agonistes: line 168-169) The word abject means ….
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Work every day. No matter what happened the day or night before, get up and bite the nail. ~Ernest Hemingway
Wearing a pink feather boa and sequined purple top hat to a funeral? Aberrant. Stealing the corpse? Abhorrent. Abhorrent means disgusting, horrible, or detestable . ….
“A.D.” does not mean “after death,” as many people suppose. “B.C.” stands for the English phrase “before Christ,” but “A.D.” perhaps confusingly stands for the ….
Aural only ever refers to the ear or hearing, and oral only ever refers to the mouth or speaking. Something verbal is something expressed in ….
Assent refers to agreement, while an ascent is a climb. An ascent is most often a physical climb up something, like your ascent up a ….
If you are amoral, you’re not a jerk, you just don’t know that what you’re doing is wrong. The word was invented rather recently by ….
Amicable refers to the connections between plural people or things, like a friendly situation with a crowd or countless trees. Take out the C for ….