wayworn: wearied or tired by traveling
(Example: These beautiful and verdant recesses, running through and softening the rugged mountains, were cheering and refreshing to the wayworn travellers. [Reference: Washington Irving, Astoria])
Sunday, May 30, 2010
PROPITIATE
(Example: Cultivated pagans long survived but retreated to form private societies, practicing secret rites to propitiate the gods to avert drought or earthquake from their home cities. [Reference: Henry Chadwick, "Greasing the 4th-Century Palm", New York Times, November 15, 1992])
BOULEVERSEMENT
- reversal; overthrow
- a violent disturbance
(Example: It requires a complete bouleversement in your whole attitude, a process of adjustment that anyone who's been in this position understands; but you need to go through it. [Reference: "Two years' hard Labour", Independent, July 13, 1996])
FORCIBLE
- characterized by using force against opposition or resistance
- characterized by force, energy, or efficiency; powerful
(Example: Robbery, the forcible taking of property from the person of the victim, is the crime most likely to be committed by a stranger; 75 percent of victims are robbed by strangers. [Reference: Adam Walinsky, "The Crisis of Public Order", The Atlantic, July 1995])
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