Noun > Spiral (count) 1 : a circular curving line that goes around a central point while getting closer to or farther away from it The glider flew in a wide spiral over the field. 2 : a situation in Read More …
Noun > Spiral
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Noun > Parade
Noun > Parade (count) 1 : a public celebration of a special day or event that usually includes many people and groups moving down a street by marching or riding in cars or on special vehicles (called floats) the annual Read More …
Adjective > Effervescent
Adjective > Effervescent Inside the word effervescent, you can almost see the Latin fervescere, “beginning to boil,” and inside that, fervere, “to boil, to glow, or to be hot.” Fervere also gave us the words fervor, ferment, and fer___cy, meaning Read More …
Adjective > Impractical
Adjective > Impractical not practical: such as a : not easy to do or use : not suitable for the situation Little sports cars are impractical for large families. an attractive but completely impractical pair of shoes (=shoes that look Read More …
Noun > Place setting
Verb > Hang out
Verb > Hang out 1 informal : to be or stay somewhere for a period of time without doing much The gang hangs out at the corner store. Our dog spends all his time hanging out (=hanging around) on the Read More …
Idiom > (as) bold as brass
Noun > Humanitarian
Noun > Humanitarian (count) a person who works to make other people’s lives better She has been recognized as a great humanitarian for her efforts to end world hunger. — humanitarian adjective, always used before a noun humanitarian efforts humanitarian Read More …
Verb > Distill
Verb > Distill Sometimes the Oxford English Dictionary gets poetic. It defines our word distill as “to extract the quintessence of.” I love that: when you’re distilling something, you’re drawing out its quintessence: the parts of it that are purest, Read More …
Noun > Contrast
Noun > Contrast 1 (count) : something that is different from another thing — + to Today’s weather is quite a contrast to yesterday’s. (=today’s weather is very different from yesterday’s weather) 2 : a difference between people or things Read More …