Word of the Day: Just

Word of the Day: Just

Word of the Day: Just

just / jəst
 
adjective
 
1.      reasonable
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
 
2.      conforming to a standard of being correct
With fame in just proportion, envy grows.
Edward Young, 1683-1765
 
3.      righteous
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
 
4.      deserved
There’s a fine line between deserving and just desserts.
Stanley Victor Paskavich, ?-
 
5.      lawful
Possession under a just title is sufficient if continued for a period of 10 years.
from the Southern Reporter, Volume 6, 1890
 
adverb
 
1.      exactly
There are three things that a man must know to survive in this world: what is too much for him, what is too little, and what’s just right.
African Proverb
 
2.      very recently
If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U. S., the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there.
Jenni Rivera, 1969-2012
 
 
3.      by a small margin
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron rose significantly in June, but still fell just shy of the record high June water level.
Mark Torregrossa, ?-, mlive.com/weather
 
4.      immediately
The droplet is always at its largest just before it drops.
Bulgarian Proverb
 
5.      only; simply
It is no good going to the river just wanting to catch a fish; you have to take a net as well.
Chinese Proverb
 
6.      very; also used as an intensifier
When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.
Rita Moreno, 1931-
 
7.      possibly; maybe
Work as if you own the company and soon you just might.
Michael Dolan, 1965-

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Just

Word of the Day: Wrangle

Word of the Day: Wrangle

wran-gle / ˈraNGɡəl
 
verb
 
1.      to argue or bicker in a noisy or peevish manner
A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour.
Timothy Shay Arthur, 1809-1885
 
2.      to tend or herd
It pays to be in the best shape possible when you’re wrangling the largest reptiles on Earth!
Terri Irwin, 1964-
 
3.      to engage in an argument
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1882
 
4.      to obtain by maneuvering
They’re coming at us so fast – the gizmos, the doodads, the gimcracks, the wonderments – so ubiquitously, so overwhelmingly, we’ve not yet found how best to wrangle each new miracle into genuine usefulness.
From ‘You Aren’t Special’ by David McCullough, Jr., ?-
 
noun
 
1.      a noisy dispute
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle.
From ‘Decline and Fall’ by Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966
 
2.      an action or instance of bickering
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
Euripides, c. 480-406 BCE

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Just

Word of the Day: Eminent and Imminent

Word of the Day: Eminent and Imminent

eminent
em-i-nent / ĕm-ə-nənt
adjective
 
1.     famous and respected within a particular sphere or domain
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
 
2.     outstanding; worthy of notice
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams, 1835 – 1902
 
3.     prominent or protruding
Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow
All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste;
And all amid them stood the Tree of Life,
High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit
Of vegetable gold
John Milton, 1608 – 1674
 
 
imminent
im-mi-nent /  ĭm-ə-nənt
adjective
 
1.     impending, near at hand, about to happen
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger.
Seneca, c. 4 BC – 65 AD

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Just

Word of the Day: Innovate and Innovation

Word of the Day: Innovate and Innovation

Innovate
in-no-vate / ˈinəˌvāt
verb
 
1.      to introduce as new; to make changes in or to an established thing.
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines.
Peter Drucker, 1909-2005
 
Innovation
in-no-va-tion / ˌinəˈvāSH(ə)n
noun
 
1.      something brand new
There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.
John S. Herrington, 1939-
 
2.      the introduction of new things or methods
Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places[…]
Margaret J. Wheatley, 1944-

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

Word of the Day: Just

Word of the Day: Enhance

Word of the Day: Enhance

en-hance / in-ˈhan(t)s
 
verb
 
1.      to increase; to make better
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
 
2.      to increase the value of
Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.
Kenneth Fisher, 1950-

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.