Words to Know

Today's word of the day is:

Perambulate (intransitive verb)
\puh-RAM-byuh-layt\

Definitions:

1.To walk through or over.

2.To travel over for the purpose of surveying or inspecting.

Use in context:

If you don't like boats -- and it's surprising how many people who come here don't like boats -- you can perambulate the shoreline, take a swim, sit in the lounge and read, or do nothing more than sit on the dock

Every weekend, the police close off ten to fifteen blocks of some Manhattan avenue. The merchants line the curbs, and the New Yorkers slowly perambulate up and down.

Source: dictionary.com

Words to Know

Today's word to know is:

irascible (adj.) :

Definition : easily angered or provoked, irritable

Examples in context :

A grouch is irascible. The students generally abused substitute teachers, but they knew that even substitute teachers become irascible on Monday mornings. an irascible old man an irascible response

Source: English-for-students.com

Words to Know

Today's word to know is:

Froward (adj.)

Pronunciation : fro-ard

Definition:

1. Stubbornly contrary and disobedient
2. Given to acting in opposition to others
3. Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition


Synonyms: balky, contrarious, contrary, difficult, impossible, ornery, perverse, wayward


Examples in context:

• Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity.

• They went quietly down into the roaring streets, inseparable and blessed; and as they passed along in sunshine and shade, the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and the vain, fretted and chafed, and made their usual uproar.

• He was forward thinking enough to write a foreword for his book on his career as a froward soccer forward.

Source: English-for-students.com

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Today's word to know is:

Circuitous (adj.)

Pronunciation : ser-kyo-itess

Definitions:

1. lengthy because very indirect
2. being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course
3. marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct
4. deviating from a straight course
5. not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
6. not direct in spatial dimension


Synonyms: anfractuous, circular, devious, indirect, oblique, roundabout, tortuous

Examples in context:

• The circuitous bus route between the two cities went here, there and everywhere and it took an extremely long time to get anywhere.

• A circuitous argument is very similar to a circular argument, which is one that ends up where it begins or attempts to prove something without offering any new information. To say, A majority is that which exists when there is a majority, is to give a circular, or tautological, definition of the word majority.

Source: English-for-students.com