English Word of the Day

Hi All,

I would like all of us to take turns presenting a word in english & its usage in a sentence, so that we can learn more words, rather than using the same words over and over. Kindly share your knowledge to boost up the thread.

Acrid

Meaning : (adjective) Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter to the taste or smell.
Usage: The taste of the salt was strong in my mouth, and I was strangling with the acrid stuff in my throat and lungs.

 

Oxymoron

An oxymoron (plural oxymora (Greek plural) or, more often, oxymoron’s) ("sharply dull" in Greek) is a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from inadvertent errors such as extremely average, to deliberate puns like same difference, to literary oxymoron’s that have been carefully crafted to reveal a paradox.

Funny Oxymoron’s
1) Clearly misunderstood

2) Exact Estimate

3) Small Crowd

4) Act Naturally

5) Found Missing

6) Fully Empty

7) Pretty ugly

8) Seriously funny

9) Only choice

10) Original copies

And best of all

11) Happily Married

 

@Soldier--Thanks for your comments {MAM nope i am nt tat much old vijaya is quite comfortable}

@Shiva - its my pleasure to share tis to all, tats y IL is rocking...

 

@Ramya many thanks for ur encouragement.

Nebbish
Synonyms:
Timid person
Usage:
Gita is such a nebbish.

 

Palindrome:
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction

Funny examples:
"Hey! Obese boy! Eh!"
"Well, let's tell Lew"
"We lost a fatso,Lew"