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warau-okami · 11 months

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雨期「うき」 rainy season

#langblr #japanese langblr #learn japanese #nihongo #japanese vocabulary #vocabulary #japanese #word a day

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somethingusefulfromflorida · 1 year

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I know how I will make my fortune. I'm gonna release a series of word-a-day calendars that contain the unabridged text of War and Peace over the next two thousand years.

#war and peace #war and peace daily #dracula daily #word a day #word a day calendar #calendar #million dollar idea #do not steal #tolstoy #leo tolstoy #lev nikolayeviç tolstoy #it works out to about 1600 years #so in 3622 i'll be set for life!#my grandkids had better be grateful

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chezzywezzywritinghelp · 2 years

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Daily Word Day 8

Minx (noun) : an impudent, cunning, or boldly flirtatious girl or young woman; you saucy little minx!

origin : mid 16th century (denoting a pet dog): of unknown origin.

#word a day #chezzywezzy’s daily vocab #vocabulary #vocab #creative writing #original writing #writing advice #writerblr #writblr #writers on tumblr

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f1orencesyndrome · 1 year

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Dryasdust

A boring, pedantic speaker or writer.

Dull and boring.

While the definition of “dryasdust” is literally “dull and boring,” the story behind the word is not. Sir Walter Raleigh Scott was a 17th- and 18th-century writer, considered the inventor of the historical novel. “Ivanhoe,” a historical novel concerning the life and times of a Saxon knight, opens with a “dedicatory epistle to the Rev. Dr. Dryasdust.” This fictitious character served as the intensely dull, but extremely informative, book antiquarian who supplied Scott with the necessary details to write his book (and also featured in the introductions of some of Scott’s other works). The word “dryasdust” has persisted as both a noun and adjective for a boring, pedantic sort.

#vocab #funny #lol #awesome #vocabulary #word a day #polyglot #english #language #boring #random

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botsford · 2 years

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Evince: To show clear demonstration, or to bring light to something, to prove without any doubt!

Sentence: Despite Shakesphere’s work evincing intellect, his work was written for the common people of the time!

Precocious: Either meaning premature in mental ability and development, OR showing great maturity at a young age!

Sentence: The young girl seemed very precocious as she was able to spell very long words.

You can also say precocity! Which means to be precocious.

The young man’s precocity was remarkable, displaying such articulation!

#rambling #word a day

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emilnikos · 4 months

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I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It's not a tantrum and it doesn't come from "being too weak-willed" it's painful and it's embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT'S INVOLUNTARY!! Don't claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight

#i can't believe i have to day it but autism /is/ a disablity. its disabling. meltdowns are part of that.#'oh this is a lukewarm take' you dumbshit fucks have been throwing the word neurodivergent and meltdown around so #casually they have both been said at me with the same disdain as a swear word. you guys will accept making fun of autistic people #if someone jn your circle who is 'cool' does it first. at your big ages. shut the hell up

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jaggedjawjosh · 2 months

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twistedlybroken · 2 months

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Please help my grandpa fight cancer by sharing or donating thank you ❤🙏

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linusjf · 22 days

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Anu Garg: God, A Verb

‘“God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper,” designer and architect R. Buckminster Fuller once said. And it makes sense. As long as we do our work honestly and not hurt others, what does it matter if we believe in some invisible superman in the sky, who happens to have such a fragile ego so as to condemn people for not believing in him, no matter how good they might be? Do…

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#architect #fellow beings #fragile ego #garg #god #job #noun #r buckminster fuller #religion #sky #superman #what does it matter #word a day

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warau-okami · 11 months

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旅する「たびする」 to travel; to take a trip

#langblr #japanese langblr #japanese vocabulary #vocabulary #learn japanese #nihongo #japanese #word a day

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harper-collins · 2 months

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Jan 29: Vibrissa

n 1a: any of the stiff hairs that are located about the snout of many mammals 1b: any of the coarse hairs growing within the nostrils of humans 2: one of the bristly feathers near the mouth of birds

"Scar spent a long time looking at the birds that would go on their little birdhouse and feeder, it intrigued him, even to the point where he knew what a vibrissa was for a bird,"

(I'm sorry I've been sitting on that all day)

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#harper uses his 'word' a day for tumblr #gtwscar #vibrissa #word a day #its such an odd worse to try and use #it was either noses or funny reference to birds/grian

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chezzywezzywritinghelp · 2 years

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Daily Word Day 11

Inordinate (adj.) : unusually or disproportionately large, excessive; a case that had taken up an inordinate amount of time.

(of a person) unrestrained in feelings or behavior, disorderly.

origin : late Middle English, from Latin inordinatus.

#writblr #creative writing #original writing #vocab #vocabulary #writerblr #writers on tumblr #writerscorner #writing advice #chezzywezzy’s daily vocab #advice #word a day #writer blog #writing #writer things

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shisasan · 11 months

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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own [originally published 1929]

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reactionimagesdaily · 21 days

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#Every day my restraint crumbles. One day every device I own will block ads. Mark my fucking words.#reaction image #reaction meme #daily reaction images #image mood: frick the frack off

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fandom-trash-goblin · 2 months

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i beg you to love me, say that i'm enough, but you tell me— why are you like this? i think there's something wrong with you.

for @shestrying

thanks to @acelania for finding the unknowns!

in image / desperation sits heavy on my tongue, tumblr user tullipsink / mary oliver, ‘north country’ / virginia woolf, letter to violet dickinson / in image / blythe baird, from if my body could speak / Alice in Bed: A Play' by Susan Sontag (link in comment) / lynee rae perkins, criss cross / elena ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay' (trans. Ann Goldstein) / rainer maria rilke, from rilke’s book of hours / in image/ in image

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oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin · 1 year

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Beautiful from Ordinary Days

#EDIT: I added links to the post’s caption go click them.#I did this because people were mistaking the words as a poem. I love poems. it’s not a poem.#it’s a song from a musical that deserves more attention. go listen to the song. if you like it go listen to the musical. it’s fantastic #it’ll make you laugh and it’ll make you cry. could not recommend enough.#okay edit over. back to my og tags #long post #and I'm talking LONG like do you love the color of the sky long #today I am a nuisance to your dash #but it's in the name of art and beauty #ordinary days #musicals #paintings #art museum #post i made #i love lyrics #greatest hits

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