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nounExample: The withdrawal from the bank exceeded $10,000, so the customer had to fill out a governmental form.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
nounExample: The woman rapidly climbed the corporate ladder.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
noun (plural of woman)Example: The women decided to form a book club.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
adjectiveExample: This is a worthwhile book to read.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
auxiliary verbGrammar.com’s section on Problem Words discusses would and should. Click here for that discussion.Note: The auxiliary verb would shows a variety of meanings. One is shown below: expressing the future in a past statement.Example: Yeste... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
noun and verbExample: She used a plastic wrap to protect the sandwiches. nounExample: She wanted to wrap her child in a warm coat. verb... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
adjectiveExample: These wretched developers want to destroy the rural land.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
noun and verbExample: The wrinkle in his shirt disturbed the fastidious young man. nounExample: He would always wrinkle his brow. verb... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
verbGrammar.com’s section on Problem Words discusses write, right, and rite. Click here for that discussion.Example: She wants to write for a national newspaper.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
noun and verb (present participle of the verb write)Example: She enjoys fine writing. nounExample: I will be writing far into the night. verb... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
nounExample: The small child enjoyed playing the xylophone.Note: Here's an interesting "Word History" from Dictionary.com:Alphabet books for children frequently feature the word xylophone because it is one of the few words beginning with x that a chi... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
noun and verbExample: His yacht cost a fortune. nounExample: He likes to yacht throughout the Caribbean. verb... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
verb and nounExample: This action will yield positive results. verbExample: He sought a higher yield on his investments. noun... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
adjective and nounExample: The young man asked her out for a date. adjectiveExample: “Youth is wasted on the young.” —George Bernard Shaw. noun... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
possessive pronounNote: Far too many people use your when they mean you’re, the contraction for you are. For a discussion, read Grammar.com’s section on Common Grammatical Mistakes. Click here for the beginning of that discussion.Example: Pay att... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
contractionNote: Far too many people use your when they mean you’re, the contraction for you are. For a discussion, read Grammar.com’s section on Common Grammatical Mistakes. Click here for the beginning of that discussion.Example: We’re glad y... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
nounNote: The word is typically capitalized. It means the spirit of the times.Example: The Zeitgeist of England in the Victorian period focused on industrial progress. The Zeitgeist of the 2000s in the United States concerns the Internet.... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
abase - verb To deprive of esteem, to diminish a person’s self-worth or effectiveness; to degrade or demean; to humble, humiliate, mortify; to bring low, take down a peg. When metastases appeared, men were castrated, since testosterone seemed to pr... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
abject - adjective Sunk to a low condition, miserable, degraded, without self-respect, of the lowest kind.Note: Often used in the cliché, abject poverty, where abject serves only as an intensifier. I do not think that an old fellow like me need have... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
abjure - verb To recant; to repudiate under oath; to disavow a stance previously written or said; to renounce irrevocably. 2. Resolved, That we the citizens of Mecklenburg County, do hereby dissolve the political bands which have connected us to the ... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
abeyance - noun A state of suspension or temporary inaction; the condition of being temporarily set aside or held in suspension, as in They held the program in abeyance. In law, a condition of undetermined ownership as when a property right has yet t... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
abominate - verb To dislike strongly; to regard with loathing; to execrate. Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in Kashmir, or the woes of the Chechens and Kosovars. But the bombers ... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
abrogate - verb To abolish by official means; to annul by an authoritative act; to repeal, as in to abrogate a law; to put an end to. The new crusade to render socialism irrevocable has raised the temperature further. Yet the balance of the past deca... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
abstemious - adjective A state of self-denial or abstinence, regarding the use (usually overuse) of food or drink. When [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180)] was eleven years old, he assumed the dress of philosophers, something plain and coarse, ... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
abstruse - adjective Having to do with matters difficult to comprehend. My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can di... | added by edgood 7 years ago |
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