Greetings, Nina, The following list of synonyms for angry may be of help to you: Irate, indignant, wrathful, wroth, acrimonious, mad mean feeling or showing strong displeasure or bad temper. Angry is applied to persons or their moods, acts,

Hi, This is my first post in this forum I am looking for one or many synonyms of "to strike a balance". I can also use different parts of speech like adjectives, nouns.. I am using it as figurative speech refering to one having to

Vctory: Avangi is correct. You must learn the parts of speech to be able to use a word correctly. For example, compare is a verb, and comparatively is an adverb, and comparison is a noun. They all mean the same thing because they are different

"I want her to go" "I forced him to cook" In all these sentences, "her to go" and "him to cook" are infinitive phrases acting as direct object. The pronouns are the subject of the infinitive. Gerunds and

With due respect allow me to correct you: Main Entry: down-to-earth Part of Speech: adjective Definition: reasonable, practical Synonyms: common , commonsense, easy , hard , hardboiled, hardheaded , matter-of-fact ,

("Robert Lieblich" (Email Removed) wrote) I've never heard of being "aboard this mortal coil." Is it a common phrase there in Australia? It was Bob who said that, actually. Why I'm asking: I think of "mortal

classics; they have eighty hits for "nowadays," which is ... from Oscar Wilde, whose high-class > characters use it frequently: Conan OK, respice finem. It's often useful to have the conclusion stated at the beginning, so please

Does anyone have a copy of The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) handy? I forget which of the two it was, as I read them about 30 years ago, but as I recall one of them has a single speech thatgoes on for about one third of the whole (very

Donna: I'm going to look into the history of "folks" a bit more and see if it can be traced to any particular regions. I've always figured it was a general American, if not British, colloquialism. Does *anyone* *anywhere* use it

Self-Oy! before Bob C. gets to it. "Rhoticity" is the word. Why? Perhaps this comes out of a discussion that I've missed (I've been absent for some time) wherein a general consensus was achieved (that'll be the day), but