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HILIGAYNON WORD OF THE DAY:
          handurawon - recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.
          SYNONYMS - panumdumon
          USAGE - Kanami lang HANDURAWON ang aton nga pag-palangga-anay.

WORD OF THE DAY:
          upbraid - express criticism towards.
          SYNONYM - reproach
          USAGE - Eleanor UPBRAIDED her husband for forgetting to pick up the dry cleaning.

"Accountability: The mother of caution."
          Ambrose Bierce

WORD OF THE DAY:
          statuesque - suggestive of a statue, as in proportion, grace, or dignity.
          SYNONYMS - stately
          USAGE - She was of majestic form and stature, her attitude s were imposing and STATUESQUE, and her gestures and movements distinguished by a noble and stately grace.

"There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils; and in the main it will be found that a power over a man's support is a power over his will."
          -Alexander Hamilton

WORD FOR THE DAY:
          adulterate - corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.
          SYNONYMS - dilute, debase, load, stretch
          USAGE -Our supply of coffee was running out, so I suggested we ADULTERATE it with ground acorns to make it last longer.

"While solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them  has few charms."
          -Lucy Maud

WORD OF THE DAY:
          interject - to insert between other elements.
          SYNONYMS - interpose, throw in, come in, inject, put in
          USAGE - He listened thoughtfully, INTERJECTING only the odd word.

"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman - a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal."
          -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Victory is ever fickle"
          -Homer
          
          WORD OF THE DAY:
          graven - cut or impressed into a surface.
          SYNONYMS - engraved, etched, inscribed, incised
          USAGE - The lines from the corners of his mouth seemed GRAVEN into his face.