words/2024/words-Dec-24.md
He faced a fusillade of questions from the waiting journalists. -
She walked with a waddle. -
His fever was allayed by the medicine. -
He deplored religious bigotry. -
The volume tends to jive fairly reasonably well with the pricing. -
At the start of the parade, it is fully shrouded by fog machines. -
It is one thing for Canada to attract disaffected immigrant tech workers from Silicon Valley. -
Clean clothes and good manners are prepossessing. -
I know this is an imposition. But please hear me out. -
The selling pressure is abating. -
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from contention to be Donald Trump’s attorney-general. -
And honestly, if he's acting a little aggro... -
I don't grovel to anybody. -
His response was immediate and emphatic. -
It's like a splinter in their mind, they had to live with for rest of their life. -
His agenda is discordant with ours. -
words/2024/words-Nov-24.md
And the more parsimonious you are, the more economically dense each byte that everyone has to retain on the ledger is. -
Not particularly strong, but not ductile or easily malleable either. -
Nobody can impugn his ability. -
I came away with the impression that Mehmet Oz was, despite his well-deserved medical renown, preternaturally vapid and preening, and, thus, to me, an incongruous figure. -
And iPads are a huge business for Apple, and the iPad is now solidly established as a piece of our cultural firmament. Everyone knows what an iPad is. -
Meanwhile, the high price is clearly beginning to crimp demand. -
words/2024/words-Oct-24.md
Just like average punters, firms in China often struggle to find good investments and therefore plough cash into commercial and residential property. -
Blighted stems often canker. -
words/2024/words-Sep-24.md
Once you come through this crucible, you can guide your own life course. -
This precept has guided U.S. government policy for 30 years. -
We strive to ascertain what it is we can change and what we cannot change. -
making informed decisions that are not only profitable but are also free from the vagaries of human psychology. -
A pimple is a small localized build-up of sebum, dead skin cells, and bacteria clogging a hair follicle, usually at the surface of the skin. It resolves on its own. However, if it is deeper in the skin, it can develop into an abscess. -
A geyser of gas and liquid erupted. -
A hot climate enervate people who are not used to it. -
Cissie was round-shouldered and dumpy. -
words/2024/words-Jul-24.md
Nearly every week there is some thread on Reddit about how Daily Stoic is too this or that, and people pile on their pent up resentments and conjectures. -
he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans. -
We delude ourselves that we are in control. -
I left feeling disgruntled at the way I'd been treated. -
a put-upon drudge who slaved for her employer. -
My father was apoplectic when he discovered the truth. -
Hunter was accused of illegally purchasing and possessing a firearm in October 2018 while using a narcotic. -
He would immolate himself for their noble cause. -
words/2024/words-Jun-24.md
It is a tricky time for Christianity. Many Catholics are vexed because Pope Francis has modernised the church’s attitude towards blessings for same-sex couples. -
His elegance is a living reproach to our slovenly habits. -
I thought you must be a humbug all along, from the conceited way you talked. -
He drove with blithe disregard for the rules of the road. -
ignoble. -
ornate. -
Her fellow teachers greeted her proposal with scorn. -
Scallops are a type of bivalve mollusk, meaning the interior muscle is surrounded by two shells similarly to oysters, mussels, and clams. -
What does all this portend for the near future? -