Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Eschew

It means to avoid doing what one usually does morally or professionally. It refers to avoid moral habits. 
For this case, a few examples will work better:

  • They now eschew the violence of their past
  • He is a a psychologist who eschews the traditional methods of psychotherapy.
  • She eschews evil.

Chubby




This word means fat, or plump (another new word) as this child in the picture. The dictionary just gives the definitios as synonym of plump which has a lot of meanings. Regarding  the picture, the definition is this:
 having a full rounded usually pleasing form

Alibi

Pronounced "alibai", an alibi is a type of defense found in legal proceedings by demonstrating that the defendant was not in the place where an alleged offense was committed.
It is the same meanings for any other type of defense, it is like a proven excuse to demonstrate that you did not make an action  because you were doing something else.
"The guy in the Shaggy´s song "it wasn't me", has practically no alibi to prove it was not him, he can only run away.



Sunday, May 27, 2012

Bail out-Phrasal Verb

Bail something/somebody out: To help a person or organization which is in difficulty, usually by giving them money. 

The government decided to bail General Electric out because they were run out of money. 

Brag

Boast. Boast: To glorify oneself in speech. Talk in a self-admiring way. To speck of with excesive pride.

Alexandra Houses (hahaha) brag about being beautiful.
Lina Tontis brag about having a new car... hehehe, but she does not drive.

Squeaky

A short, high-pitched sound or cry. Shrill cry.

I think there is a squeaky door in almost all horror movies
A squeaky bed could be a problem for you, your partner and your neighbors.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Shrewd

Clever at understanding.
Showing a good judgement  to solve a situation.

Characterized by sharp intelligence and often a sense of the practical.
Sagacious, astute, perspicacious.

A shrewd observation by Sherlock Holmes: "It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all."  Sherlock Holmes in “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”


Source: http://andynaselli.com/a-shrewd-observation-by-sherlock-holmes 

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Ponder

To think about something carefully.


Certain beautiful engineer pondered whether she should enter the UN to a magister in electrical engineering; at the end, she decided not to.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Pall


  • to cause to become insipid
  • to lose in interest or attraction
  • to deprive of pleasure in something by satiating
Interesting word, it was in a quote in the book of the french detective....

Friday, May 11, 2012

Wonk and a new idea


The idea is that we post some strange or new or curious words, and with comments we both put anagrams with all the letters and with less letters, but which are contained in the word. My example will be with Wonk.

Wonk:   Informal Derogatory

A student who studies excessively.
A hardworking person.
A person who is obsessively interested in a specified subject.

Debris

The scattered remains of something broken or destroyed, for example, when a ship crashes in the beach, all the fragments and broken wood, are the debris. 
The origin of this word is french, so the accent is in the first syllable.


Copied examples:



  1. After the earthquake, rescuers began digging through the debris in search of survivors.
  2. Everything was covered by dust and debris.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Interweave

Funny word... it means to closely connect or mix different things togetheror to be closely connected or mixed together, for example, a rope, a thread, or even a story, so, you can say that the plot of Touch is about a kid knowing how many lifes are interweaved.