Posted by geemiz | Posted in Geemiz Thoughts | Posted on 01-01-2011
Tags: 365 words, new years Resolution
2010 is over and we are now in the first day of 2011. But before I start let me greet all of you a Happy New Year. 
Every end of the year a very common question arises and that question is what is your New year’s Resolution? But before that what is a new year’s resolution by the way?
What are New years Resolution?
A popular answer to that is it is a commitment of a person to reform his habit and change his lifestyle for the better next year. These commitments will take effect at the first day of the year. New year’s resolution may be another term for goal setting but the difference is that it has a more emotional impact to the person making the commitment.
For the past Years I have my new year’s resolution but the problem is that I mostly do not follow it. May be do it for a month or so but later on will just forget about it. I was thinking why, and I then realized that most of my new year’s resolution are so general and sometimes have that resolution for the sake of having one.
But this year I have challenged myself to fulfill my resolution for the year and to make it possible I made a more specific and more doable resolution.
This Blog is all about one of my Years resolution which is to learn a new word each day. We have millions of words in the dictionary and I don’t think that I learned like a fourth of those words. So to broadened and widened my vocabulary I will learn a new word each day. It does not be necessarily English.
So today is the start of a year -long word encounter.
- Month
- Day – Word – Meaning
January
1 – Faux Pas – A socially awkward or tactless act
2 – Honed – make perfect
3 – Bicker – Argue over petty things
4 – Hackneyed – Repeat too often
5 – Exuberance – Overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval
6 – Blunder – Make one’s way clumsily or blindly, or an embarrassing mistake
7 – Allegory – A short moral story
8 – Procrastinator – Someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness)
9 – Farcical – Broadly or extravagantly humorous
10 – Writ – (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer
11 – Persona non grata – A person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome
12 – Egalitarian – Favoring social equality
13 – Wretched – Of very poor quality or condition
14 – Intrepid – Invulnerable to fear or intimidation
15 – Exhort – Encourage especially by cheers and shouts
16 – Tit-for-tat – An equivalent given in return
17 – Cynicism – A cynical feeling of distrust
18 – Cynical – Believing the worst of human nature and motives
19 – Ubiquitous – Being present everywhere at once
20 – Hoist – Raise
21 – Obscure – unclear
22 – Feelers – A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
23 – Panoptic – Everything visible in one view
24 – Kayoed – Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
25 – Succinct – Briefly giving the gist of something
26 – Sedentary – Little activity or inactive
27 – Incarcerated – Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
28 – Dissonance – A conflict of people’s opinions or actions or characters
29 – Juxtaposed – Placed side by side often for comparison
30 – Smoldering – Showing scarcely suppressed anger
31 – Skeptic – Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
February
1 – Synergy – Working together of two things
2- Gargantuan – Huge and Bulky
3- Meme – A cultural unit that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means
4- Bide – Dwell
5- Subjudice – Awaiting judicial determination
6- Scuffed – Walk without lifting the feet
7- Emboldened – Courageous
8- Burnish – The property of being smooth and shiny
9- Infidels – A person who does not acknowledge your god
10- Hype – Publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner
11- Ascetic – Practice of rigorous self-discipline
12- Accretion – An increase by natural growth or addition
13- Succinct – Briefly giving the gist of something
14- Corrugate – Fold into ridges
15- Pandemonium – A state of extreme confusion and disorder
16- Addendum- Postscript
17- Equestrian – Of or relating to or composed of knights
18- Veracity – Unwillingness to tell lies, Truthfulness
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