Impinge, impinging, impinges
Pronunciation: Imp-inj
Other Forms: Impingement
What You Need to Know:
- This is a very versatile word that is VERY good for essay writing
- it can be used for describing an action anywhere between impinging on soil plant a tree to impinging on someone’s personal property or personal space or beleifs.
- If you look at the bare roots of the word you’ll see why it can be applied to so many things.
Literal Definition:
1. verb - To Collide or strike into/against
- His car impinged into another car because he was stupid and drunk
2. to indrude or trespass on something belonging to someone or something else (can be figurative or literal)
- the hiker left his guide and impinged on a bear’s cave
- the child sorely impinged on the mother’s personal time
- my mother impinges on my personal space when she comes into my room unannounced
3. to have an impact on something (usually negative)
- her debt that collected from her eBay addiction impinged on her bank account
Word Origin:
- Comes from Latin impingo, impingere, meaning “to thrust, strike or dash against.”
- which stems from the more basic in (in, on, into) + pango, pangere (compose, drive, insert, fasten, plant, fixate, settle, agree upon)
- so its meaning isn’t solid, for example you could impinge on a contract or an agreement
also, sorry there isn’t a good Goolge image result, all of the ones I found were medical and it really grossed me out.
(if you have any good smart-sounding words you’d like to share, feel free to submit! You don’t have to do any of the definition stuff, just submit words/essay tips/whatever. Or if you have a comment on anything I post, something you want me to add or take away, let me know! Feedback is every writer’s friend.)
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Pronunciation: Fat-choo-uhs
Other forms: Fatuousness, fatuously
Definition:
Silly, pointless or foolish, especially in a smug or self-satisfied way.
- He started watching the show Supernatural, and started believing there were demons everywhere. His fatuous efforts to get rid of them didn’t do anything but amuse him for a week or so.
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Word Origin:
- From Latin fatuus, fatua, fatuum meaning “Foolish, silly,” or “idiotic.”
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Pronunciation: Kah-loe
Other Forms: Callowness
Definitions:
1. adj. Immature, lacking adult maturity or experience
- The callow child screamed that it wanted a candy bar until his mother smacked him.
- The callow intern made a mistake that left the pickle factory flooded with pickles.
2. adj. childish, young
3. adj. Featherless (baby bird)
4. noun - A newly hatched worker ant
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It has a number of beginnnings, this word has evolved a lot apparently and it’s kind of a combination of words but they all stem from the same meaning. I find it interesting. You might not, so read more if you want to be mildly amused.
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I had 4 words of the day in the queue since I was REALLY busy
and tumblr decided “fuq yo blog, you don’t need to be consistent.”
so it didn’t post ANY of them
so now I’ll just manually post them. which is dumb because I’m also going to be really busy every day next week with job training
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Pronunciaton: kha-siss
What You Need to Know:
- it’s the frame of a structure that everything else is attached to
- this word is very good for metaphors and similes
Literal Definition:
1. Noun - the frame that holds the body of a car, usually made of steel and it’s supported by springs attached to the axels of the car
2. Noun - the landing gear of an aircraft
3. Noun - the frame on which the carriage of a gun moves back and forth
4. Noun - the framework of an electronic device like a cell phone, television, radio, etc. that all the other parts are attached to
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Word Origin:
- Comes directly from Latin cassis meaning “frame”
- it can also mean “empty, hollow, lacking, devoid of…” (from cassus, cassa (adj))
- Cassis is also used as the Latin word for “snare, hunting net,” and “spider web” which I guess makes sense when you consider the frame of something does tend to look like a net or a spider web.
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Pronunciation: khun-fab-yoo-lay-shun
verb form - confabulate
Definition:
1. noun - the unconscious filling of gaps in one’s memory by fabrications accepted as facts
- She remembered that the red scarf she found after the party was worn by her friend, but it might have been confabulation.
- Gilderoy Lockheart confabulated others to make them beleive he had done a number of marvelous feats
2. noun - a casual conversation
- Our confabulation was cut short when the guy I was talking about walked past us.
Word Origin:
- from Latin cum (with) + fabulo, are, avi, atus (or noun fabula, ae)
- fabulare can mean “to chat or converse” but it can also mean “to make up a fable, invent a story”
- similarly, the word “fabula means a “story” or “drama/play” and it’s where we get the word for “fable”
- think about that next time you have a casual conversation ;)
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This tip is mainly for making your essay sound better, this isn’t to say you should never use the word “opposite” but sometimes spicing it up with better vocabulary is a good idea.
“Antithesis” by definition is someone or something that is the complete opposite of someone/something else, so, keep that in mind :)
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(I just wanted to say, this is probably one of my favorite words. it sounds like what it means.)
Other forms: Mellifluousness, mellifluously, unmellifluous
Pronunciation: Mehl-lih-flew-uhs
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can you imagine posing for this?
“let me just pour some honey on your face, ok?”
Definitions:
1. adj - flowy; flowing with sweetness or honey
- The mellifluous sound of a gentle stream flowing nearby was very calming.
2.adj - sweet or musical, pleasant to hear
- The pianist played a soothing, mellifluous melody that put us all to sleep.
3.adj - smooth and sweet
Used in a Pickup Line:
- Babe, your skin is so mellifluous. Have my children.
- (I challenge all of you to come up with a better one in my ask box. Best ones get posted.)
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