steups
and three more really cool words
this week’s Thought (singular)
i give up. i simply cannot stick to a proper hydration routine. every few weeks i have to stop drinking a healthy amount of water and get a migraine or else the earth stops rotating
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this is the fourth edition of Vocabulary Builder with me, jahnavi. find the first one here, the second one here, and the third one here. thanks for tuning in!
steups (noun/verb) - an expression of annoyance or derision made by sucking air and saliva through the teeth; origin: west indian
‘My mother steupsed and shook her head on seeing me run behind yet another stray cat at my 22 years of age.’
sinecure (noun) - a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit
‘Every few weeks, I look up the degrees that will let me get a sinecure and then close my phone with a deep sigh of longing.’
progenitor (noun) - a person or thing from which a person, animal, plant, or thing is descended or originates
‘He was the progenitor of a family of distinguished actors.’
dross (noun) - something regarded as worthless; rubbish
‘Some editors just have the skill to turn literary dross into gold.’
as always, good luck remembering these, and do let me know if you’re ever in a position where you can use them!
English Recitation Competition
The Teapot, Robert Bly
That morning I heard water being poured into a teapot. The sound was an ordinary, daily, cluffy sound. But all at once, I knew you loved me. An unheard-of thing, love audible in water falling.In the Middle, Barbara Crooker
Time is always ahead of us, running down the beach, urging us on faster, faster, but sometimes we take off our watches, sometimes we lie in the hammock, caught between the mesh of rope and the net of stars, suspended, tangled up in love, running out of time.
Not Anyone Who Says, Mary Oliver
Not anyone who says, “I’m going to be careful and smart in matters of love,” who says, “I’m going to choose slowly,” but only those lovers who didn’t choose at all but were, as it were, chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable and beautiful and possibly even unsuitable — only those know what I’m talking about in this talking about love.
A Picture!
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Twelve-year-old Molly Steinsapir crashed onto the pavement from a Rad Power E-bike and never woke up. With a poorly regulated e-bike industry, who is responsible when a child dies?
How beauty is a self-begetting force.
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Politics, empathy and egotism in ‘macaron timeclash’
this week’s Song
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