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Learn a new word every week for a year
The English language adds about 1,000 new words to dictionaries each year.
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Week 1: auspicious (If an event or time is auspicious, it makes you believe that something will be successful in the future)
Week 2: Rectify (put right, correct)
Week 3: Tenuous (flimsy, weak, little substance or strength)
Week 2: Rectify (put right, correct)
Week 3: Tenuous (flimsy, weak, little substance or strength)
4/3/2018
Circumspect
Wary and unwilling to take risks. “His circumspect approach to investing.”
Circumspect
Wary and unwilling to take risks. “His circumspect approach to investing.”
Week 2: Dadrock. Meaning Rock music which appeals to an older generation, or is heavily influenced by that of an earlier era, esp. the 1960s. Also: rock music performed or recorded by male musicians who have had a relatively long career. This word was invented in 1994, the year of my birth.
Week 1: Bumptious. Meaning irritatingly self-assertive, arrogant, cocky. I can think of a few people this applies to ;)
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