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pejorative   • \pih-JOR-uh-tiv\  •  adjective : having negative connotations; especially : tending to disparage or belittle : depreciatory Example Sentence: The team’s star player has come under fire for making pejorative remarks about women during a magazine...

Word of the Week – metronome

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metronome   • \MET-ruh-nohm\  •  noun An instrument designed to mark exact time by a regularly repeated tick Example Sentence: After practicing the drums with a metronome, Lars had a better feel for tempo and kept time better. Did you know? The patent for the...

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bevy; noun a large group or collection a group of animals and especially quail Example Sentence: The band’s latest album offers up a bevy of new songs, as well as some remixes of old favorites. Did you know? What do you call a group of crows? Or swine? Or...

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jingoism – noun extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy Example Sentence: Albert Einstein was a pacifist who found German jingoism, with its ultra-nationalistic ideology and militaristic policy, so objectionable that...

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Xanadu   – noun an idyllic, exotic, or luxurious place Example Sentence: To Arthur, the beach house was a Xanadu, the perfect spot for the romantic tropical vacation he had dreamed of for years.