Yearly Archives: 2014

arch
DEFINITION
adjective
1. principal, chief;
2a. mischievous, saucy;
b. marked by a deliberate and often forced playfulness, irony, or impudence.

refulgence
DEFINITION
noun
: a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance.

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
- Emily Dickinson

pratfall
DEFINITION
noun
1. a fall on the buttocks;
2. a humiliating mishap or blunder.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
- Stendhal

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.
- Gloria Naylor

stymie
DEFINITION
verb
: to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of.

acephalous
DEFINITION
adjective
1. lacking a head or having the head reduced;
2. lacking a governing head or chief.

Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
- William Congreve

Ritanjali Hastir, Keekli Reporter, January, 2014, Shimla “Parents should encourage and train their daughters in self defense from a young age considering the rise in crime against women” - Samriti. With the...

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
- Lorrie Moore

belfry
DEFINITION
noun
1. a bell tower; especially : one surmounting or attached to another structure;
2. a room or framework for enclosing a bell;
3. head.