Alike
Words from Dic(tionary) Alike: 1. (adj) similar to each other: e.g. the brothers were very much alike. 2. (adv) in the same or similar way: e.g. the girls dressed alike It scares the crap out of me....
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Array: (n) an impressive display or range of a particular type of thing. He was my first child, which obviously made me a new dad. I wanted to do everything right, but I wanted to go just a little...
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Badminton: (n) a game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is played back and forth across a net. My parents were so conservative that they didn’t allow us to refer to it as a “shuttlecock.” They felt...
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Beguile: (v) to charm or enchant, sometimes in a deceptive way. Subtlety seems to have been abandoned by our generation, which runs away from cleverness like teenagers escaping the responsibility of a...
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Bipartisan: (adj) involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties Compromise is when one person wants pizza and another desires a hot dog, so it is decided to settle on hamburgers, with...
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Convulsion: (n) contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions “When you are weak, you are strong.” This concept is roundly rejected in everyday humanity, because it...
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Damn: (v) to declare something to be bad, unfit, invalid “…and he that believeth not shall be damned.” I think I was eight years old when I read that for the first time. I wondered why. Why does God...
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Debris: (n) the remains of anything left over It’s a matter of getting the right mind-set. If you don’t, you may find yourself going through life feeling cheated—angered at being passed over. The...
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