Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Systematic


Definition: Having a system, method, or plan; carried out in a step by step procedure.
Related Words: system; systematically; systematize
Sentence: He is systematic in his approach to work.

Selective


Definition: a. Careful in choosing b. Highly specific in activity
Related Words: select; selectively; selectiveness
Snetence:People can be selective of buying things.

Punctilious


Defintion: a. Attentive to the finer points of etiquetter and formal conduct. b. Very careful and exact.
Related Words: punctiliously
puncctiliousness
Sentence: He is a punctilious person so he is attention to the small detail.

Prudent


Defintion: Excercising caution, good judgment, or common sense in handling pratical matters; giving thought to one's actions and their consequences.
Related Word: prudence
prudently
Snetence: His wife is prudent manager of the money.

Minutiae


Defintion:Minor or trivial details.
Related Words: minute
minutely
Sentence:He is very sensitive to the minutiae.

Monday, September 8, 2008

Meticulous


Defintion: a. Extremely careful amd precise. b. Excessively concerned with details.
Related Word: meticulously
meticulousness
Sentence: When you are doing your test, make sure you are meticulous to check your answer.

Meticulous

Judicious


Defintion: Having or exhabiting sound judgment; sensible; wise.
Related Word: judiciously
judiciousness
Sentence: When you see someone is having a fight, it would be judicious to remain silent.

Foresight


Definition: The ability to see what is likely to happen and to prepare for it accordingly; careful thought ot concern for the future.
Related Word; foresee
Sentence: He is foresight when he does his job so now he earns a lot of money.

Fastidious


Definition: a. Difficult to satisfy or please; exacting. b. Possessing or displaying careful attention to detail.
Related Word: fastidiously
fastidiousness
Sentence: He is fastidious about his clothes so his clothes are very special.

Diligence


Definition: Constant and earnest effort to accomplish a task; careful attention.
Related Word: diligent
diligently
Snetence:He has a lot diligence to make his work on time and perfect.

Spoonerism


Part of Speech: noun
Definition: An accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds.
Sentence: He wanted to say wave the sails but he said save the whales, which is a spoonerism.

Simile


Part of Speech: noun
Definition: A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduce by like or as.
Sentence: “He danced like a bear”, it is a simile.

Portmanteau word


Part of Speech: compound noun
Definition: A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words.
Sentence: The word bash is combine from bang and smash.

Palindrome


Part of Speech: noun
Definition: A word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
Sentence: Make a palindrome is funny but hard.

Onomatopoeia


Part of Speech: noun
Definition: The formation or use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for
Other Form: onomatopoetic
Sentence: When you use onomatopoeia in the poem, it will make it full of energy.

Malapropism


Part of Speech: noun
Definition: The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context.
Related word:malapropistic
Sentence: He wanted to write about the sunny day but he write pony day so he had malapropism.

Colliquial


Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: 1. Used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech.
2. Informal in style of expression.
Other Form: colloquialism
colloquially
Sentence: He write a colloquial speech so he got a low score.

Coinage


Part of Speech: noun
Definition: 1. The invention of new words.
2. The process of making coin.
Other Form: coin
Sentence: All the money comes from the factory of coinage.

Acronym


Acronym

Part of Speech: noun
Definition: A word formed from the initial letters of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of series of words.
Other Form: acronymic
acronymous
acronymically
Sentence: The acronym for Professional Gamer is PG