Vibrant [vahy-bruh nt]: having great energy; full of life (comes from the verb to vibrate, meaning…
Tag: english
Sometimes we need help from others. And sometimes others need help from us. Whether it’s…
Ideal [ahy-deel]: perfect for the occasion 1-) Sunny weather with a high temperature of 75…
Dazzle [daz–uhl]: to amaze or to impress (literally having to do with shining a bright…
Clarity [klar-i-tee]: Having the quality of clearness; free from uncertainty, confusion, and the like 1-)…
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Eager [ee-ger]: desirous to do something 1-) The teacher was joyful that all her students…
Thrive [thrahyv]: To succeed; to do really well; to flourish; to prosper 1-) The stray…
Clever [klev-er]: intelligent, especially when it comes to outside-the-box thinking 1-) The teacher described the…
Witty [wit-ee]: having/showing great wit (ability to think quickly and efficiently, especially making connections that…
Radiant [rey-dee-uhnt]: shining, bright, joyful v. radiate: to give off light 1-) The sun here…
Mellow [mel-oh]: calm, relaxed; V. To mellow (out) 1-) Mellow people often seek to live…
Decipher [dih-sahy-fer]: to solve, to decode (a mystery, riddle, problem) 1-) Only the world’s leading…
Elastic [ih-las-tik]: bouncing back easily; flexible N. Elasticity 1-) Rubber bands are best known for…
In (one’s) element: doing what one does best or enjoys. 1-) Some people find camping…
Throw the baby out with the bathwater: To discard something valuable and something not valuable…
Redundant [ri-duhn-duhnt]: wordy or repetitive 1-) Redundant writing styles are not popular in a society…
Superfluous [soo–pur-floo-uhs]: more than needed; unnecessary excessive 1-) The teacher failed the student for his…
Outsized [out-sahyz]: unusually large 1-) The NBA player hired a custom tailor to fulfill his…
A cappella [ah kuh–pel–uh]: singing without instrumental accompaniment 1-) Happy Birthday is usually sung a…
Imagine you have $86,400 in your account and someone steals $10 from you. Will you be upset and throw all of the $86,390 away in hopes of getting back at the person that took your $10? Or move on and live? Move on and live, right. See, we all have 86,400 seconds every day, so don’t let someone’s negative 10 seconds ruin the rest of the 86,390. Don’t sweat the small stuff, life is bigger than that.
Bedevil [bih-dev–uh l]: to torment or harass 1-) Trauma tends to bedevil its victims. 2-) The…
Assert [uh–surt]: To state with confidence or assurance; adj. assertive 1-) To assert something is…
Word of the Day is a fun idea I came up with to help my…
Vicious [vish–uhs]: Nasty, vile, or malicious 1-) The editorial on the local mayor was characterized…
Enlighten [en-lahyt-n-muh nt]: to give knowledge to; n. Enlightenment 1-) The age of enlightenment in European…
Curtail [ker-teyl ]: Reduce, minimize 1-) The budget decreases meant that legislators would need to…
Fluency is the ultimate goal of studying a foreign language. Fluent speakers can express themselves…
Regenerative [ri-jen-er-uh-tiv, –uh-rey-tiv]: able to regenerate. 1-) Modern science has uncovered that neurons are regenerative.…
Prodigious [pruh–dij–uhs]: great in size, amount, etc 1-) The young musician had a prodigious talent.…
People traveling to the United States for the first time often don’t know what to…
Voluminous [vuh–loo-muh-nuhs]: of great volume, size, or extent 1-) None of the politicians read the…
What is it about me that others would change if they could?
Impeccable [im-pek–uh-buhl]: perfect, flawless 1-) The foreigner’s accent was impeccable. 2-) Paintings are rarely impeccable…
The average person speaks around 15-25,000 words in a day. Going a day without conversation…
Serendipity [ser-uh n-dip-i-tee]: Good luck; fortune 1-) Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming famously invented Pencillin by accident—call…
Arcane [ahr-keyn]: obscure; understood by a few people only. 1-) The professor’s arcane instructions were…
Your accent is the first thing people notice when you speak in a foreign language.…
Grandiose [gran-dee-ohs]: grand, especially in a showy or excessive fashion. 1-) The charismatic politician was…
Infantile [in-fuhn-tahyl]: babyish, childish 1-) The teenager was despised for his infantile behavior. 2-) Infantile…
Mesmerize [mez-muh-rahyz]: to fascinate or amaze 1-) The street performer mesmerized audiences with his powerful…
Language is something I am really passionate about. I have studied Spanish on and off…
Manifest [man–uh-fest]: to appear; to make appear; clear, apparent (manifest) 1-) The ill patient prayed…
Distasteful [dis-teyst-fuhl]: unpleasant or offensive 1-) The distasteful remark offended the judge. 2-) Distasteful medicine…
Mystify [mis-tuh-fahy] to confuse or puzzle 1-) The case mystified detectives—they had no suspects and…
Enchant [en-chant]: to have a magical effect on (adj. enchanted—having a magical quality) 1-) The…
Just as a treasure exposed is quickly spent, so also any virtue that becomes famous or well publicized vanishes. Just as wax is quickly melted by fire, so the soul is emptied by praise, and loses firmness of virtue.
Disempower [dis-em-pou-er ]: to make weak; to take power away from. N. Disempowerment (antonym: empower,…
I find that most of wake up day, not because we genuinely ‘want’ to, but because we have to. We have to be somewhere, do something, answer to or take care of someone. But when you shift your intention and create a genuine desire – event enthusiasm – for waking up in the morning, your entire life changes.
How we start our day determines how we create our life. Are you snoozing through your morning… snoozing through your life… and snoozing through your unlimited potential… Or are YOU committed to waking up each day with passion, purpose, and a plan so you can create the life you truly want and deserve?
Inculcate [in-kuhl-keyt]: to instill or impart, by repetition; to cause to accept an idea/feeling 1-)…
The old saying, “You snooze, you lose,” may have a much deeper meaning than any of us realizes. When you delay waking up until you have to–meaning you wait until the last possible moment to get out of bed and start your day–consider that what you’re actually doing is resisting your life. Every time you hit the snooze button, you’re in a state of resistance to your day, to you life, and to waking up and creating the life you say you want… It’s as if you’re saying, I don’t want to live my life, at least not to the fullest.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention
Infuriate [in-fyoor-ee-eyt]: to anger or enrage 1-) The defendant’s dismissive attitude infuriated the judge. 2-)…
Victor [vik-ter]: winner, champion (victor is used but is a little more formal and less…
