Sunday, May 27, 2012

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.