adjective providing support or assistance.The boy’s supportive parents got him the extra help he needed to succeed in school.Her husband was supportive of her plan to open a business.His teammates were supportive…
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WOTD: neutrality
noun the foreign policy of a nation that refuses to take sides in an international dispute.Sweden adopted neutrality in the early 1800s and did not participate militarily in either of the two…
WOTD: evoke
transitive verb to call forth or bring out (an image, memory, response, or the like) in the mind or in action.The music in this slow passage evokes images of a drowsy summer’s…
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WOTD: torment
transitive verb to inflict great physical or mental anguish on.The guards were known to mercilessly torment the prisoners. noun a state of great physical or mental anguish; agony.The morphine eased the wounded…