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Word of the Day – Paradigm

  • Noun:  Paradigm
    1. a typical example or pattern of something; a model.
    2. a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles.
  •  Synonyms:
    1. model
    2. pattern
    3. example
    4. exemplar
    5. template
    6. standard
    7. prototype
    8. archetype
  • Usage:
    1. Ayn Rand’s paradigm, Objectivism, is  every man for themselves.
  • Encountered:
    1. Overused in business and educational circles

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Word of the Day –Laconic

  • Adjective:
    1. using or involving the use of a minimum of word
    2. concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
  • Adverb
    1. laconically
  •  Synonyms:
    1. terse
    2. concise
    3. pithy
    4. succinct
  • Usage:
    1. ‘”My lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?” “To do like me,” replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, “To hold this spot to the last man.”.’
  • Encountered:
    1.  While reading Les Miserables

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Word for the Day — Lassitude

  • Noun:
    1. a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.
    2. a condition of listlessness
  • Synonyms:
    1. burnout
    2. collapse
    3. exhaustion,
    4. frazzle
    5. prostration
    6. tiredness
    7. weariness
  • Usage:
    1. “He had returned to prison, this time for having done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and triumphant.”
  • Encountered:
    1.  While reading Les Miserables

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Word of the Day – Intransigence

  •  Adjective:  Intransigence
    1.  Refusing to moderate a position, especially an extreme position; uncompromising.
  • Synonyms:
    1. stubbornness
    2. inflexibility
    3. obstinacy
    4. mulishness
    5. pigheadedness
    6. rigidity
  • Usage:

“Not only does their moral system not allow compromise, but extreme conservatives believe that if this intransigence leads to a non-functioning  government, so much the better, since that would prove the government doesn’t work.” ~~  from the book referenced below

  • Encountered:

While reading The Little Blue Book by George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling

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Word of the Day – Revenant

  •  Noun:  Revenant
    1. a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.
  • Synonyms:
    1. Apparition
    2. Specter
    3. Phantasm
    4. Spook
    5. Shade
    6. Wraith
  • Usage:

“Under the head of demons are classified only such spirits as are believed to enter into relations with the human race; the term therefore includes (I) human souls regarded as genii or familiars, (2) such as receive a cult (for which see Ancestor Worship), and (3) ghosts or other malevolent revenants; excluded are souls conceived as inhabiting another world.

  • Encountered:

The new Leonardo DiCaprio film titled, The Revenant

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