Word Of the Day! How Would You Use it in Everyday Context

Word Of The Day

How Would You Use This Word?

Embroil- verb

1. to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.

2. to throw into confusion; complicate.

Sentence:

It is not my nature to involve myself with such lunatics in my school who wish to only embroil those unlike them into the pattern of being bullied because they rather study than wear high heels and make-up.

Terry embroiled herself into the passionate whims of Cooper; even though, her friends advised her he was a heart breaker.

Word Of the Day: How Would You Use It in Everyday Context?

I love to learn new words but sometimes remembering the new words isn't as easy as one would like; given the many distractions in life. It's so much easier to just scroll to the list of words so readily available and overly used in your mental catalog, but what fun is that. I find it easier to remember a word if you are able to put it in a few sentences. So Lets learn some new words together.

Word Of The Day

How Would You Use This Word?

Bel-esprit bel-es-PREE noun- a person of great wit and intellect.

My sentence:

Among the suits and gowns of idiots she is the bel-esprit of the ball. 

What is your sentence? 

WORD OF THE DAY

Aberrant 

adjective:

1. Markedly different from an accepted norm.
2. Deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal. 

How will you use this in a sentence? Share your sentences in the comments below. Here is my sentence.

"I couldn't help but notice this aberrant creature amongst the crowd of grey uniforms with gossiping mouths, and cell phone glued hands splattered in the hallway." --Khadija

Word Of The Day

adiaphorous

\ ad-ee-AF-er-uhs \  , adjective;

1. Doing neither good nor harm, as a medicine.

 

My example sentence:

"I didn't look the patients in the eyes as I handed them two small adiaphorous pills when they believed they were finally getting treatment; this was my ticket to hell for sure." --Khadija

How will you use this word...do tell

   

Word of the Day

quench

\ kwench \ , verb;

1. To slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).

2. To put out or extinguish (fire, flames, etc.).

3. To cool suddenly by plunging into a liquid, as in tempering steel by immersion in water.

4. To subdue or destroy; overcome; quell: to quench an uprising .

5. Electronics. To terminate (the flow of electrons in a vacuum tube) by application of a voltage.

 

This one maybe a familiar word to most but never the less I would like to present this word today. Here is an example of how I would use the word.

"In his everlasting days no amount of exquisite food nor philandering with concubines could quench his perpetual thirst." -- Khadija

How will you use the word? 

 

Word of the Day

Inundate

verb

1. to cover with a flood: overflow
2. overwhelm

"I was inundated with obscene and invasive questions at the press conference." -- Khadija

How will you use this in a sentence? Please share by leaving a comment.

Word oF the Day

Alexipharmic

 

a·lex·i·phar·mic

/əˌlɛk səˈfɑr mɪk/ Show Spelled [uh-lek-suh-fahr-mik] 

adjective

1.  warding off poisoning or infection; antidotal; prophylactic.

noun

2.  an alexipharmic agent, especially an internal antidote.

— adj
1.	acting as an antidote
— n
2.	an antidote Use this in a sentence to spice up your conversations or writings. How would you use it in a sentence? Please do tell! "I was incredulous from the start, but even with this knowledge I had to go and retrieve the alexipharmic elderberry from the Cimmerian Forest; it's that or death." --Khadija Craddock

Word of the Day...Use the word

burke

\BURK\ , verb;

1. To suppress or get rid of by some indirect maneuver.

2. To murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.

Quotes:

 "If he means that the reviewers will burke me as far as they can, no doubt he is right; but when I am dead there will be other reviewers and I have already done enough to secure that they shall from time to time look me up."

-- Samuel Butler, The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

"Holding her was a rage and a torment and there was the dressing-gown and the teddy and 'Chop, chop, here comes a chopper' to burke him."

-- Audrey Lillian Barker, John Brown's body

 This is a good word to use in your story. How would you use burke in a sentence? Don't be shy. 

I know that because she thinks she is in love with Roy, Lacey will stop at nothing to burke me, even if it's a misunderstanding, which it is not, but never the less she has no acumen to do so besides just be insanely insane.  -- Khadija Craddock, Awakened

 Now its your turn to use the word.