Meaning: 1. Dangerously lacking in security or stability. 2. Subject to chance or unknown conditions. 3. Based on uncertain, unwarranted, or unproved premises.
Usage Example: 1. A precarious solution to a difficult problem. 2. The precarious life of an undercover cop.
Synergism n.
Meaning: Interaction of discrete agencies or conditions where the total effect is greater than the sum of the individual parts.
Usage Example: The directors saw considerable synergism in the business merger.
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Aplomb n.
Meaning: Self-confident assurance, skill, and poise – especially in difficult or challenging circumstances.
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Avarice n.
Meaning: Immoderate desire, greed for wealth: an unreasonably strong desire to obtain and keep money.
Usage Eg. His life was consumed by ambition and avarice.
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Metaphor n.
Meaning: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate something else.
Usage Example: She was drowning in money.
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Vernacular n.
Meaning:
1. The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
2. An idiomatic word, phrase, or expression.
3. The idiom of a particular trade or profession.
Usage Example: In the legal vernacular.
Usage: verb (used with object)
Meaning: to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented.
HOW IS SYNCOPATE USED?
1) I juxtapose the rhythms, and I syncopate them to make the piece create the jazz feeling that I’d like to get.
2) Finding syncopation in jazz is about as difficult as finding water in the ocean. It is the cornerstone of one of the principal sources of jazz rhythm, ragtime melody, so much so that to “rag a melody” and (a decade or so later) to “jazz up a melody” meant, in part, to syncopate it.
Progeny n.pl.
Meaning:
1. Something that originates or results from something else; outcome; issue.
2. A result of creative effort; a product.
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Furtive adj.
1. Marked by quiet, caution or secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed. “A furtive kiss.”
2. Characterized by stealth; surreptitious. “A furtive attempt to take control of the business.”
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Epochal adj.
Meaning:1. Highly significant or important; momentous:
Usage Example: Epochal decisions made by the president.
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