adjective in accordance with the ordinary, exact, or primary meaning of a word or words; not figurative or metaphorical.If someone is starving in the literal sense, that person is actually dying from…
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WOTD: deficit
noun an amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, esp. the amount by which income is less than expenses.To attain the calorie deficit needed to lose weight,…
WOTD: morose
adjective gloomy or sullen.He lapsed into a morose silence. See the full entry
WOTD: axiom
noun an obvious or generally accepted principle.Practice makes perfect is a familiar axiom.It is an axiom of politics that the more unhappy the voters are at election time, the more likely they…