The word for today is… impunity (noun) – : exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Impunity (like the words pain, penal, and punish) traces to the Latin noun poena, meaning “punishment.” The Latin word, in turn, came from Greek poin?, meaning “payment” or “penalty.” People acting
The word for today is… smorgasbord (noun) – 1 : a luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods and dishes (such as hors d’oeuvres, hot and cold meats, smoked and pickled fish, cheeses, salads, and relishes) 2 : an often large heterogeneous mixture Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Although smorgasbord might
The word for today is… williwaw (noun) 1a : a sudden violent gust of cold land air common along mountainous coasts of high latitudes b : a sudden violent wind 2 : a violent commotion Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : In 1900, Captain Joshua Slocum (the first person to sail solo around the world,
The word for today is… atavistic (derived from atavism (noun)) 1a : recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination b : recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity 2 : an individual or character
The word for today is… querulous (adjective) – 1 : habitually complaining 2 : fretful, whining : a querulous voice Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers have tagged fearful whiners “querulous” since late medieval times. The Middle English form of the word, “querelose,” was an adaptation of the Latin adjective, querulus, which in turn
Rachael A. Woldoff West Virginia University Robert Litchfield Washington & Jefferson College Rachael A. Woldoff is an urban sociologist and Professor of Sociology. She received a PhD in sociology from The Ohio State University, specializing in crime and community. Her research and publications have focused on neighbourhood crime and disorder,
Frank Furedi rt.com Frank Furedi is an author and social commentator. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Author of How Fear Works: The Culture of Fear in the 21st Century. Scrabble has followed Mr Potato Head and Barbie in trying to
The phrase “mind over matter” actually works in practice. When a problem becomes an obsession, resolution can be found in logically examining the facts and allowing the brain to counter an unpleasant physical reaction. Our brain is a powerful problem-solving tool. Every night since the government began distributing the
The word for today is… synonym (noun) – : one of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses 2 : a word or phrase that by association is held to embody something (such as a concept
righttolife.org.uk A mother of an actor with Down’s syndrome says that she is “really thankful” that she was never offered pre-natal testing for Down’s syndrome. Tommy Jessop has Down’s syndrome and stars in the BBC’s crime drama Line of Duty. The plot is
The word for today is… perspective (noun, adjective) – noun 1a : a mental view or prospect b : a visible scene giving a distinctive impression of distance : vista 2a : the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed : point of view b : the capacity to view things in their
Andrew Urquhart University of Reading Dr Andrew Urquhart is Associate Professor of Finance at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School. Dr Andrew joined the ICMA Centre in September 2018 and holds a PhD from Newcastle University where his thesis examined the Adaptive Market Hypothesis and investor sentiment in extreme circumstance.
The word for today is… organoleptic (adjective) – 1 : being, affecting, or relating to qualities (such as taste, color, odor, and feel) of a substance (such as a food or drug) that stimulate the sense organs 2 : involving use of the sense organs Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers first got
The word for today is… grandiloquence (noun) – : a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Grandiloquence, which first appeared in English in the late 16th century, is one of several English words pertaining to speech that derive from the Latin
The word for today is… turbid (adjective) – 1a : thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment b : heavy with smoke or mist 2a : deficient in clarity or purity b : characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions) Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Turbid and “turgid” (which means
Time and again we see that there is very little confluence between the deeply-held beliefs of the left, and reality. From climate change to Black Lives Matter, nearly everything that your average leftist believes without question is absolutely counter to hard fact. The Earth is not “dangerously warming” and
