Here is the definition of penury:
definition of penury
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Byron had a lucky break when he won the lottery but he quickly spend himself into penury by drinking and gambling.
Last year the infamous loan shark reduced hundreds of hardworking people to penury but this year his devious method has become even more nastier.
The so-called reforms has brought death, destruction, destitution and penury.
Here is the definition of expatriate:
definition of expatriate
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The unfair tax law will hit the expatriates very badly since they will have to shell out a hefty amount from their meager earnings.
As xenophobia spreads across the country, expatriates are increasingly facing threats of violence and harm.
In this politically charged atmosphere, expatriates in this town keep a low profile and try their best not to align with one group or another.
Here is the definition of chutzpah:
definition of chutzpah
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The President’s economic advisory team is struggling to live up to their own image of chutzpah and first-movers.
In brazenness, Demons and Sons Pvt Ltd, remains the poster company for chutzpah.
Chutzpah of the youth that had come to witness, only slightly made up for the staleness of the event.
Credulous is sometimes incorrectly used in place of credible. Actually, the BeeDictionary lists one of the meanings of credible as credulous. But the dictionary cautions that such usage would be inappropriate and credulous would be a better choice.
Here is an example that clearly gives out the difference between credulous and credible.
Was the West being too credulous when it believed without murmur the proposition that Saddam Hussein’s regime had weapons of mass destruction hidden in the Iraqi desert? After all, there was no credible evidence to prove that there indeed existed silos of such destructive weapons on Iraqi soil.
The stock of the word credible rose ominously like the hood of a cobra after the fifties. On the other hand, the word credulous, that had actually touched the popularity level of the word credible in the twenties, lost grace after 1920. In the first decade of the twenty first century however, credibility seems to be dipping while credulousness seems to be raising its ugly head. See below in the ngram chart the relative popularity of the words credible and credulous traced right from 1810 till 2008.
Here is the definition of dingdong:
definition of dingdong
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The Asiatic lion faces a bleak future and there exists a dingdong battle between the poachers and the environmentalists.
The final saw a dingdong battle between the veterans till Wan Choo prevailed to win with the trophy.
A dingdong battle rages in the boardroom as the outsiders’ plot to take over the Company is being ferociously resisted by the stakeholders.
A different usage of Ding Dong:
The song Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead
BBC reports:
The song adopted by anti-Baroness Thatcher campaigners has reached number two in this week’s Radio 1 Official Singles Chart.
There was a surge in sales of Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead after the former British Prime Minister’s death last Monday.
The Chart Show did not play the full song, though it did play in full the rival song, I’m In Love With Margaret Thatcher by the Notsensibles, which charted at number 35.
Here is the definition of incommunicado:
definition of incommunicado
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Unfortunately, even the political prisoners have been held incommunicado for almost two years in this country.
The denial of service by hackers held the Company virtually incommunicado for more than 24 hours.
The counsel said that he has advised his client to remain incommunicado in view of – what he called – ‘the irresponsible reporting of events in the media’.
Crash Blossoms is an odd subject line. But ‘crash blossoms’ happens to be about certain subject lines in the print media. In particular crash blossom is about certain newspaper headlines. Editors always want to make the headlines as concise as possible. The end result sometimes goes awry. At times, the concision gives birth to dual meanings and unintended meanings and has some hilarious outcomes.
Some legendary headlines that fall into this category are: ‘MacArthur Flies Back to Front’, ‘Miners Refuse to Work after Death’, ‘Queen Mary has bottom scraped’, ‘NJ Judged to Rule on Nude Beach’, ‘Red Tape Holds up New Bridge’.
But what is the relation of ‘Crash Blossoms’ to all this?
For many years there was no term that described these dual meaning (sometimes nonsensical) headlines. And thus ‘Crash Blossoms’ was born. The story goes that Mike O’Connell, an American editor based in Japan, chanced upon this headline: Violinist Linked to JAL Crash Blossoms. He perceived ‘crash blossoms’ to be a phrase and wondered what that phrase meant. The newspaper that ran this headline actually wanted to say that Diana Yukawa, whose father died in a 1985 Japan Airlines plane crash, was rising rapidly in her musical career. O’Connell shared this odd headline in a forum. A member of that forum suggested that defective headlines such as ‘Violinist Linked to JAL…’ could be labelled ‘Crash Blossoms’. This neologism was quickly taken up across literary circles and has now come to stay.
Only today I read the following in the e-paper edition of New York Times. I would think this qualifies as a ‘Crash Blossoms’ headline. Here is a snapshot from that edition:
Here is an addition to my previous collection. This one is from The Hindu, an English daily in India:
Engineering students locked into Microsoft Office
Here is the definition of referendum:
definition of referendum
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Although officials say that voters have overwhelmingly approved disengagement from the Economic Union, independent observers are calling the referendum a big farce.
In the recently concluded referendum, the security arrangement between the two countries has been given a thumbs down by citizens of both countries.
Protesters are rallying to disrupt the ongoing referendum that aims to approve the newly drafted constitution.
Here is the definition of polarize:
definition of polarize
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People are more polarized in their same-sex marriage views than they were 15 years ago.
The polarized electorate is not a myth and can now be established empirically.
Some years ago, astronomers in Australia had reported that they had detected highly polarized radiation from a cloud of hot dust in the constellation Orion.
Here is the definition of concision:
definition of concision
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If concision is rewarded, it is likely that one will see innovation in the language.
Concision sometimes can bring out unintended humor. It is said that an editor sent a telegram to Cary Grant asking, ‘HOW OLd CARY GRANT?’ The response from Cary Grant was pithy: ‘OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?’
The handbook was bereft of technological jargon and it showed very clearly how much clarity and concision a guidebook should have.
