Word of the Day – Didactic

  • Adjective: Didactic
    1. designed or intended to teach
    2. intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment
    3. making moral observations
  • Synonyms:
    1.  Instructive
    2. Instructional
    3. Educational
    4. Educative
    5. Informative
    6. Informational
    7. Edifying
    8. Improving
    9. Perceptive
    10. Pedagogic
    11. Moralistic
  • Usage:

“I used to say this to Joey and Charlotte about my father himself when I got a little older, but they were always didactic, and said it was naughty of me.”

  • Encountered:

While reading The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

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Word of the Day – Succubus

  • Noun: Succubus
    1. A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men.
    2. Any demon or evil spirit.
    3. A strumpet or prostitute.
  • Synonyms:
    1. Beast
    2. Monster
    3. Vampire
    4. Villain
  • Usage:

“He was like a worn small rock whelmed by the successive waves of his voice. With his body he seemed to feed the voice that, succubus like, had fleshed its teeth in him.”

  • Encountered:

While reading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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Word of the Day – Punctilious

  • Adjective: Punctilious
    1. very careful about behaving properly and doing things in a correct and accurate way
  • Synonyms:
    1. Meticulous
    2. Conscientious
    3. Diligent
    4. Scrupulous
    5. Careful
    6. Painstaking
    7. Rigorous
    8. Perfectionist
    9. Methodical
    10. Particular
    11. Strict
  • Usage:

“This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness. He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.”

  • Encountered:

While reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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