Oct 19, 2025
Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
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Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
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Will did not know what to say, since it would not be useful for him to embrace her slippers, and tell her that he would die for her.
George Eliot, from Middlemarch
Todays Scrabble word of the day is: Docile
What do you regret?
What do you regret? I regret the times I have acted with too much head or, conversely, with too much heart. I regret the times it seems better, somehow, to hang back and not step forward. I regret, along with writer George Saunders, the tepid and timid response, the moments when another “being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.” I get the instances I have turned to others for guidance even when I already had a hunch of what to do. I regret the part of me that is deferential, that fears being sentimental. I regret I am not more propelled by impulse, nerve, instinct. I regret I am not better able to hide my natural sincerity under a slant and saucy wit. I regret I am not captained by science.
The word regret comes from the Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”). It is possible that regret is a gentle, almost pleasant wistful way of describing the dissatisfaction I feel with the flaws in my own narrow and hesitate character.
~ Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation (Scribner. January, 2017)
Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
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Ever seen a word that sounds fancy but means something super practical? That’s deferential. And it shows up a lot on the SAT and ACT.
👉 Deferential (adj.): showing respect or yielding to someone else’s opinion or authority.
🧠 Think: respectful, polite, humble.
📖 Example: “She was deferential to her mentor’s advice, knowing his experience could guide her.”
💡 Why it matters: Words like deferential are gold on the SAT/ACT; they test your understanding of tone and context, not just definitions.
🎯 Pro tip: Knowing words like this helps you eliminate wrong answers fast.
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Vocabulary Captive Prince taught me
#95
deferential
showing deference; respectful
p. 47
Damn girl are you differentiable on all values because I want to open your interval