The word for today is… shambles (noun): 1 archaic : a meat market 2: slaughterhouse 3a: a place of mass slaughter or bloodshed b: a scene or a state of great destruction : wreckage c(1): a scene or a state of great disorder or confusion (2): great confusion : mess Source : Merriam
The word for today is… expiate (verb): 1a: to make amends for b: to extinguish the guilt incurred by 2 obsolete : to put an end to Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : If you need to expiate something—that is, to atone for it—it’s sure to be something you recognize
The Supreme Court has declared the then National-led government broke the law in 2016 when it cancelled a woman’s passport on national security grounds. The Crown has been ordered to pay the woman $30,000 to cover her legal costs, but the court declined to require further payment – saying
The word for today is… haphazard (adjective): : marked by lack of plan, order, or direction Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : The hap in haphazard comes from an English word that means “happening,” as well as “chance or fortune.” Hap, in turn, comes from the Old Norse word happ, meaning “good luck.
Waikato-Tainui leader Tukoroirangi Morgan dismisses David Seymour as “a political idiot” in the latest episode of 30 with Guyon Espiner. Morgan, a former broadcaster and politician, describes the ACT Party leader’s Treaty Principles Bill as “a nonsense”. The bill proposes revisions to the interpretations of the three treaty articles,
The word for today is… rescind (verb): 1: to take away : remove 2a: take back, cancel b: to abrogate (a contract) and restore the parties to the positions they would have occupied had there been no contract 3: to make void by action of the enacting authority or a superior
Parliament’s Speaker, Gerry Brownlee, has rebuked an MP for allowing lobbyists to construct an “art installation” and film in the Beehive. A few days before the Budget was released, the Taxpayers Union released a video filmed from the Beehive Banquet Hall – the same space the Budget was released – that
The word for today is… allision (noun): 1 obsolete : the action of dashing against or striking upon 2: the running of one ship upon another ship that is stationary – distinguished from collision Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Late Latin allision-, allisio, from Latin allisus (past participle of allidere to strike against,
Has National MP Maureen Pugh been the victim of a hack? The MP for West Coast-Tasman’s profile on the National Party website appears to have been edited, with the byline of a newsletter she writes changed. In the newsletter dated June 2021, Pugh’s name has been edited from
The word for today is… braggadocio (noun): 1a: empty boasting b: arrogant pretension : cockiness 2: braggart Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Though Braggadocio is not as well-known as other fictional characters like Pollyanna, the Grinch, or Scrooge, in lexicography he holds a special place next to them as one of the
The word for today is… flout (verb, noun): verb : to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn noun : jeer Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : If you flout a rule or societal norm, you ignore it without hiding what you’re doing, or showing fear or shame; you flout it “out” in the open.
University students spent the day eating raw onions, stacking V cans and attempting to put a shirt on with just one arm. […] More than 1000 University of Canterbury students entered a competition to win a blue hybrid Suzuki Swift worth $20,000. Ten students were drawn at random – and spent
The word for today is… infrastructure (noun): 1: the system of public works of a country, state, or region also : the resources (such as personnel, buildings, or equipment) required for an activity 2: the underlying foundation or basic framework (as of a system or organization) 3: the permanent installations required
Former US President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his hush money trial in New York. Following the verdict, Trump said he was “a very innocent man”, and that the “disgraceful trial” was “rigged”. “Everybody knows what happened here,” Trump told media gathered at
The word for today is… auxiliary (adjective, noun): adjective 1a: offering or providing help b: functioning in a subsidiary capacity 2 of a verb : accompanying another verb and typically expressing person, number, mood, or tense 3a: supplementary b: constituting a reserve 4 of a boat : equipped with sails and a
Hugh McPherson has taken a sick day from his job in a Government organisation to take part in today’s “carkoi”. He and his wife Robyn, with dog Maia, are among at least 100 people gathered at Z Karaka in South Auckland this morning ahead of the protest. “People of
