Daily Archives: January 17, 2017

231.Daily vocabulary – Clenched fist

The Clenched fist is a symbol of solidarity and support. It is also used as a salute to express unity, strength, defiance, or resistance

230. Daily vocabulary – Septum Ex: Love for septum nose rings have certainly expanded outside this South Asian country

A partition separating two chambers, such as that between the nostrils or the chambers of the heart.

Ex: Love for septum nose rings have certainly expanded outside this South Asian country

Ex: A septum piercing is a piercing that goes through the nasal septum

Ex: She shows off her septum piercing while out shopping

229. Daily vocabulary – Reminisce Ex: We never sat down together and reminisce over old times

Reminisceˌrɛmɪˈnɪs/

To enjoy remembering past events


Ex: We never sat down together and reminisce 
over old times

Ex: Filmmaker reminisce about girls school in Africa

Ex: My grandfather used to reminisce about his years in the navy

228. Daily vocabulary – Boast Ex: Parents enjoy boasting about their children’s achievement

Talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one’s achievements, possessions, or abilities.

Ex: A Pakistani mother who boasted about burning her daughter alive in an honour killing over her teenager’s choice of husband has been sentenced to death.

Ex: Parents enjoy boasting about their children’s achievement

Ex: Restaurant closed after owner Boasted About Racism

Ex: Got tired of listening to his boasts.

Ex: He also boasted about creating over three million jobs in China, half of them in manufacturing.

Ex: Mr. Trump often boasts of the size of the Trump Organization.