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Word: Amorous
Meaning: adj. Showing, feeling, or relating to intimate desire. “She did not appreciate his amorous advances.”
Word: Gazette
Meaning: 1 : a paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertising
: newspaper
Example: The weekly gazette includes a list of the names of students who have made local schools' honor rolls.
Word: avowal
Meaning: (noun)
An open statement of affirmation; frank acknowledgment or admission.
Synonyms: avouchment
Usage: He had no right to extort a confession of attachment from me when he had made no correspondent avowal himself.
Word: Laputan
Meaning: adjective: Absurdly fanciful or impractical.
Usage: “As a mathematician, Prof. Nowak’s particular Laputan conceit is that
human nature (before it is upgraded) is to be discovered in increasingly
sophisticated computer programs rather than by examining the real thing.”
Peter Foster; Science Good, Markets Bad;
National Post (Don Mills, Canada);
May 7, 2011.
See more usage examples of
Laputan in Vocabulary.com’s
dictionary.
Thought: Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the
religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's
religion practiced on us. -John Irving, novelist (b. 2 Mar 1942)