vicinity; noun the quality or state of being near : proximity a surrounding area or district : neighborhood an approximate amount, extent, or degree Example Sentence: There are several wonderful little stores in the vicinity of our new house. Did you know?...
Enjoy it. Someone?s said something bad about your writing? So what. No schools have burned down and no hospitals have exploded, so don?t take it so damn seriously. Nobody?s right. You wrote about your experience, your perspective and your ideas, and that?s just as it...
slake; verb satisfy, quench to cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water : hydrate Example Sentence: “What an unspeakable luxury it was to slake that thirst with the pure and limpid ice-water of the glacier!” (Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad)...
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purlieu • \PERL-yoo\ • noun an outlying or adjacent district a frequently visited place : haunt Example Sentence: “The boy, desperately nervous, continued to descend the zig-zag paths that would take him into the very purlieus of his father’s...