Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Word of the Month 00001

Well, we were making lemonade.We decided that a word of the month was necessary. And so here it is:

Begrudgingly, our first word of the month.

Dictionary.com tells us:

be·grudge

   [bih-gruhj]
–verb (used with object), -grudged, -grudg·ing.
1.
to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone):She begrudged her friend the award.
2.
to be reluctant to give, grant, or allow: She did not begrudgethe money spent on her children's education.
Origin: 
1350–1400; Middle English bigrucchen. See be-, grudge

be·grudg·ing·ly, adverb
un·be·grudged, adjective

We also found a piece of text from a book called Savannah by the Sea written by Denise Hildreth. Featuring our word begrudgingly not once but twice!

... I settled into a nice rhythm of literary life, examining the essence of our humanness and telling its story through the eyes less-than-perfect journeyman. The city had welcomed me. Begrudgingly but eventually. I had accepted it. Begrudgingly and eventually as well...

Now we ask you to use this word to inspire a piece from you...