Word Cache-EP 21
“Letter from Birmingham Jail (the 1st)”
#untimely
U-N-T-I-M-E-L-Y
Happening or done at an unsuitable time; a person’s way to disrespect meeting time, date time, or set due date.
- He broke up when you were deeply in debt and way behind on all your bills and rent? How untimely.
- You are late again. You’d better stop being so untimely from now on; it’s day one at work tomorrow!
#affiliate
A-F-F-I-L-I-A-T-E
Officially and publicly associated to an organization; person or organization officially connecting to a larger one.
- To stir up patriotism and cancel culture to its interests, the political party rumored all its rivals as affiliated to a powerful, hostile nation.
- Buying endorsers and affiliates on social media is a common marketing strategy to most businesses.
#cognizant
C-O-G-N-I-Z-A-N-T
Aware, mindful; understanding or realizing something.
- Despite cognizant of her own pathology and the destructive consequences following each episode, the girl can’t fight it when it strikes .
- Cognizant of the audience’s confusion and dropping interests, the speaker spinned his lengthy scientific lecture into a nerd-at-the-bar joke.
#provincial
P-R-O-V-I-N-C-I-A-L
alien, of outsider’s, coming not from here; of an outdated, conservative opinion or action.
- A majority of the workforce in the capital has come from provincial cities and towns.
- Asking guys to get everything she looks for ready so that she nods to a date is so unbelievably provincial and backward.
#deplore
D-E-P-L-O-R-E
To say or think that something is really bad; calling something decrepit and dilapidated.
- All attendants at the joint public funeral deplored the loss of life in the city’s elite crime fighters.
- Simply having all citizens deplore violence doesn’t throttle it at all, does it?
