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[peccant] adjective; guilty of a moral offense; violating a principle or rule

QUOTE|of the day

[Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.]

Ayn Rand

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[resplendent] adjective; shining brilliantly, characterized by a glowing splendor

QUOTE|of the day

[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.]

Quentin Crisp

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[terraqueous] adjective; consisting of land and water

QUOTE|of the day

[The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man--who has no gills.]

Ambrose Bierce

WORD|of the day

[reinscribe] transitive verb; to reestablish or rename in a new and especially stronger form or context

QUOTE|of the day

[Maybe this world is another planet's hell.]

Aldous Huxley

WORD|of the day

[prolix] adjective; unduly prolonged or drawn out, too long; marked by or using an excess of words

QUOTE|of the day

[A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

WORD|of the day

[increscent] adjective; becoming gradually greater; waxing

QUOTE|of the day

[At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations, which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.]

P.G. Wodehouse

WORD|of the day

[forfend] transitive verb; to ward off, prevent, protect, preserve

QUOTE|of the day

[It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.]

W. Somerset Maugham