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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Quote for the Day – William Faulkner

15270958187_a2de1b0f9e_b“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.” ~ William Faulkner
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