Commemorate
Commemorate /kəˈmeməˌrāt/ verb to honor, memorialize It is a great privilege to return here to our national sanctuary, this most hallowed ground, to commemorate Memorial Day with all of you. – Barack Obama, Memorial Day Speech, 2011
Accomplishment
Accomplishment /əˈkämpliSHm(ə)nt/ noun Something that has been achieved successfully. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Levity
Levity /ˈlev.ə.t̬i/ noun lightness of mind, high spirits Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. – Charles Caleb Colton (1780 – 1832)
Candor
Candor /ˈkandər/ noun The quality of being fair, unprejudiced, and honest. There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. – Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Portable
Portable /pȯr-tə-bəl/ adjective/noun adjective easily transported Books are a uniquely portable magic. – On Writing by Stephen King (1947-) noun a small device that can be easily carried. Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips. – Your Life Is Fully Mobile in Time Magazine... Read More
Consciousness
Consciousness /ˈkänSHəsnəs/ noun The state of being aware of oneself and one’s surroundings. Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, initiation into a higher consciousness. – Paul Brunton (1898-1981)
Wonderland
Wonderland /ˈwəndərˌland/ noun O mother, mother love is blind, And all the world’s a wonderland, And in the garden of your mind, I see the light of God’s own hand. – poem by Robert Louis Stevenson 1. a place that excites admiration Today the traveler on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions... Read More
Bower
Bower /ˈbou(ə)r/ noun a pleasant, shaded place beneath trees, plants, or wood. The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night. – William Blake (1757 – 1827) verb to shade or shelter When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? – from Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (1564... Read More
Demure
Demure adjective demurer, demurest. 1. characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved. Synonyms: retiring Antonyms: indecorous 2. affectedly or coyly decorous, sober, or sedate. Antonyms: indecorous
Oftentimes
Oftentimes /ˈôf(ə)nˌtīmz,ˈäf(ə)nˌtīmz/ adverb frequent, occurring in many instances Oftentimes when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I don’t want it to end. – from The Day Before, by Lisa Schroeder (1967 – )