God’s Not Dead

Dear Wonderful Reader,

God’s Not Dead

Check out the movie and spread the message, you never who may be needing to hear those words.

Smart Words to Use in a Conversation: Vacillate

Vacillate (verb; no obj.) |ˈvasəˌlāt|

• Alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive:

 I had for a time vacillated between teaching and journalism.

 

DERIVATIVES

• Vacillation |ˌvasəˈlāSHən|noun
• Vacillator |-ˌlātər| noun

 

ORIGIN

•  Late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘sway unsteadily’): from Latin vacillat-‘swayed,’ from the verb vacillare .

 

 

Smart Words to Use in a Conversation: Copious

Copious (adjective) |ˈkōpēəs|

• Abundant in supply or quantity: 

she took copious notes.

• archaic profuse in speech or ideas:

 I had been a little too copious in talking of my country.

 

DERIVATIVES

copiously adverb.

copiousness noun

 

ORIGIN 

late Middle English: from Old French copieux or Latin copiosus, from copia ‘plenty.’

Smart Words to Use in a Conversation: Complacent

Complacent (adjective) |kəmˈplāsənt|

• Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievements: 

you can’t afford to be complacent about security.

 

DERIVATIVES

• complacently adverb

 

ORIGIN

• mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘pleasant’): from Latin complacent-‘pleasing,’ from the verb complacere .

Happy, Happy, HAPPY!

Dear Wonderful Reader,

Happy First Day of Spring!

Oh, today is also International Day of Happiness!

What a cool coincidence (though, not sure if IHD falls on the same day every year, but do correct me if I’m wrong).

And can we just pause and appreciate the metaphorical significance of this!

Do something that makes you happy today and tell me about it!

-Love

Christina

Smart Words to Use in a Conversation: Juxtapose

Juxtapose (verb [ with obj. ]): |ˈjəkstəˌpōz, ˌjəkstəˈpōz|

• place or deal with close together for contrasting effect:

black-and-white photos of slums were starkly juxtaposed with color images.

• ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from French juxtaposer, from Latin juxta ‘next’ +French poser ‘to place.’

 

Smart Words to Use in a Conversation: Fervent

Fervent (adjective) |ˈfərvənt|

• having or displaying a passionate intensity:

 a fervent disciple of tax reform.

• ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin fervent- ‘boiling,’ from the verb fervere. Compare with fervid and fervor.

 

Smart Words to Use in a Conversation: Hiatus

Hiatus (noun) [pl. hiatuses, usu. in singular]: |hīˈātəs|

• a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process:

there was a brief hiatus in the war with France.

•  Prosody & Grammar a break between two vowels coming together but not in the same syllable, as in the ear and cooperate.

 

Smart Words to Use in a Conversation: Bourgeois

Bourgeois (adjective): bo͝orˈZHwä

– of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes: a rich, bored, bourgeois family | these views will shock the bourgeois critics.• (in Marxist contexts)

– upholding the interests of capitalism; not communist: bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property.

Synonyms: fold, crease, line, pleat, and wrinkle