Kith has had many meanings over the years. In its earliest uses it referred to knowledge of something, but that meaning died out in the 1400s. Another sense, 'one's native land,' had come and gone by
Financial Strategies for Divorcing A Narcissist In recent years, the word “narcissist” has crept into the popular vernacular to mean someone who’s conceited and excessively self-involved. But even though self-confidence can be expressed in a way that makes a person condescending and obnoxious, narcissism is something more. It is a real psychological disorder above and beyond being someone who’s merely full of themselves. At first, they can be appealing, these charismatic, powerful and financially successful men. It’s easy to be drawn to their grandness, their winning smiles and magnetic personalities--all the outward manifestations of their inner, all-consuming self-centeredness. As one of my clients who used to be married to a narcissist told me, “These men are attractive because they work so very hard to be alluring. They want you to like them and admire them.” But it isn’t until you get to know him –possibly years later –that you realize how controlling, how manipulative, how truly self-important and ultimately dangerous a man like this can be. “Once you ‘belong’ to him, he no longer needs to impress you, and that's when he stops the act,” my client said. Of course, a narcissist doesn’t know he has a problem. He thinks the problem is that everyone else doesn’t properly recognize how great he is.
Society puts pressure on everyone: most are expected to be someone, do something and whatever else. But that does not mean that those expectations are valid, or if the pressure is really necessary. Who knows, perhaps we're forced to chase after goals that don't really reflect our true self, or even worse, we can lose our true selves whilst chasing them.
Iktsuarpok is an Inuit word pronounced eek-soow-uhr-pohk. It’s just perfect to describe that heady impatient feeling of waiting for something to arrive!
The Late Latin noun repertorium, meaning 'list,' has given us two words that can be used to speak of the broad range of things that someone or something can do. One is repertory, perhaps most commonly
Que o mundo não é colorido, acho que você sabe. Mas que as pessoas gostam de enfeitar, ahhh.. isso gostam, poucas as pessoas que sabem como dizer as verdades quando realmente precisamos ouvi-las. 1…
Most writers know that they’re supposed to show instead of tell, but what exactly does that mean? In a nutshell, it means that rather than directly “telling” something to a reader…
This lesson explains the difference between DUAL and DUEL: illustrations, definitions, examples, tips, practice story, final quiz, and answers. Dual and duel are examples of homophones, meaning that they are said the same way, but have different definitions. There are lots of homophones in English and it can be hard to keep them all in order when you are learning, but it is very important that you don't mix these two up. One of them means that there are two of something, while the other means a fight! So you definitely wouldn't want to use one when you mean to use the other. Once you learn the definitions, you should have no problem getting it right. Let's take a look at some examples in order to help you understand each word better.
Hopefully these posters will leave you feeling motivated to get yourself in gear.
A couple of years ago, we shared a publication with you about a talented Chinese artist Tango Gao (also known as Shanghai Tango) who creates thought-provoking yet still light and fun illustrations without using words.
Since the prefix be- in besmirch means 'to make or cause to be,' when you besmirch something, you cause it to have a smirch. What's a smirch? A smirch is a stain, and to smirch something is to stain
It's no surprise that permeate means 'to pass through something'—it was borrowed into English in the 17th century from Latin permeatus, which comes from the prefix per- ('through') and the verb meare,
This blog is dedicated to all who have been hurt by criticism and felt it's cut yet did not understand how it could actually be a good thing. Let’s rethink criticism together.
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