3-WORDS-A-DAY [30-Jan-2025 UTC]
pes·ti·lence | noun
in old usage, an infectious/contagious disease that is widespread in a particular community at some time, and that is often extremely severe/harmful or fatal, especially the bubonic plague;
e.g. The pestilence spread rapidly through the city.
shroud | noun
an enveloping garment or piece of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped so they can be buried;
e.g. She was wrapped in a shroud of black linen.
squirt | verb
to eject some liquid from a narrow opening in a thin, sudden, and fast stream, or to cause some liquid to be thus ejected;
e.g. She used a water gun to squirt some water at the puppy.
Phrase & Idioms
like a hole in the head
To have absolutely no need or use for something
e.g. Mike needs another sports car like he needs a hole in the head.
Phrasal Verb
Put (something) out
to make something stop burning; to switch off a light.
e.g. We forgot to put out the campfire yesterday.
She put all the light out before going to sleep.
Quote
"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
-- Jack Welch
