Word Power - 1

Words for the Week - 1

Zeitgeist

Noun: The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.

Quote:

As most critics and all professors of cultural theory note, Madonna is nothing if not a skilled reader of the zeitgeist.

Remonstrate

Verb: To say or plead in protest, opposition, or reproof.

Quote:

If a hailstorm starts, surely instead of remonstrating with it, you try to take shelter.

Upbraid

Verb: To scold or criticize harshly.

Quote:

Afterwards, Grace roundly upbraided the boy for his boorishness.

Stoic

Adjective: Not affected by passion; being or appearing indifferent to pleasure or pain, joy or grief.

Quote:

With each year, his face became more stoic until it looked as though it had been chipped from pale rock.

Callow

Adjective: Immature; lacking adult perception, experience, or judgment.

Quote:

Those who in later years did me harm I describe as I knew them then, and I beg any reader to remember that, although I was hardly callow, I was not yet wise in the ways of the world.