Category Archives: Vocabularies

Kathy’s Word of the Week Weekly Brain Food brought to you by our CHRO perfunctory Pronunciation:per–fuhngk-tuh-ree Definition: curt As used in a sentence: The bored hostess gave us a perfunctory hello at dinner.

Informal language characteristics.

Memorization by repetition. I learned of this in today's men's fellowship, about pagan's prayer in Matthew 6.

Kathy’s Word of the Week Weekly Brain Food brought to you by our CHRO capricious Pronunciation:kuh–prish–uhs Definition: fickle As used in a sentence: Because fate is capricious, you never know what it will bring into your life.

Kathy’s Word of the Week Weekly Brain Food brought to you by our CHRO sobriquet Pronunciation:soh–bruh-key Definition:nickname As used in a sentence:Bill is a sobriquet often used in regards to William.

Kathy’s Word of the Week Weekly Brain Food brought to you by our CHRO loquacious Pronunciation:loh–kwey-shuhs Definition:talkative As used in a sentence:Never loquacious, she was now totally lost for words.

Kathy’s Word of the Week Weekly Brain Food brought to you by our CHRO tenacious Pronunciation:tuh–ney-shuhs Definition:persistent As used in a sentence:Because Eva was tenacious, she rose each time she fell.

Kathy’s Word of the Week Weekly Brain Food brought to you by our CHRO ostensible Pronunciation:o-sten-suh-buhl Definition:presumably true As used in a sentence:The ostensible cause of the breakdown seems to be that someone has tampered with the gas tank.

Kathy’s Word of the Week Weekly Brain Food brought to you by our CHRO ameliorate Pronunciation:uh–meel-yuh-reyt Definition:to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory As used in a sentence:They developed strategies to ameliorate negative effects on the environment.

One is to hate/dislike/despise; the other is to praise. Loathe is closely related to frown - frown upon = disapprove