English Word of the Day

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  1. Feb 18, 2010 #31
    vijayals

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    Etiquette
    Synonyms:
    The practices and forms prescribed by social convention or by authority.
    Usage:
    My brother uses proper etiquette.
    Niche
    Synonyms:
    Any small, specialized business market
    Usage:
    Highly focused in its market niche the group has grown profitably
    Crapulous
    Synonyms:
    suffering from overindulgence in food or drink
    Usage:
    Ramu had a crapulent sleep after going to dinner last night.
    Parvenus
    Synonyms:
    A person who has suddenly risen to a higher social and economic class and has not yet gained social acceptance by others in that class.
    Usage:
    Although Somu accumulated a large amount of money over the years, he's still considered a parvenu by the elite of his city.
     
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  2. Mar 29, 2016 #32
    Jey

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    bailiwick - In one's area of interest or authority; the word derives from the area in which a bailiff, a minor court officer, presides. When the V.P. of Sales starts walking around the factory, complain that she's stepping into your bailiwick.
     
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  3. Apr 3, 2016 #33
    Cimorene

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    Do you have any elusive phrase or word that you can either too embarrassed to ask or never surrendered to conventional utterance which your nearly-descriptive, closely-conveys, almost-got-it sidekick delivers. For me that happened with "flag down". For a good part of my life I said "Let's stop that cab" or "Let's hail that taxi". One day I was corrected, you call that action flag down something. So one of these days when your uber app is down and you need to crazily wave to one of those yellow cabs and arrive at work to recount your harrowing tale, you know how to narrate du-uh! in a boring conventional way of course.

    Flagdown.jpg
     
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