Tuesday

1) Gravitas: Seriousness , Dignity


If you have a pink shoe with pink socks and a pink purse with a pink cell phone, i cant take you seriously , no matter how much gravitas you have in your voice.

2) Glean : collect

From all that you have told me, i have gleaned that you are a die hard optimist

3)unprepossessing : unremarkable.
prepossess is attractive so this is a passe , usual.
The cake was anything but unprepossessing.

4) Malapropism : confusing similar words
When someone is down, offering an antidote instead of anecdote is a lovely malapropism.

5) Maladroit : clumsy
Mal= bad ... adroit= right handed which in olden days ment graceful in contrast to the left handed people.  so this word means a bad-righthanded perso which translates to them being clumsy.

3)redress: correct unfairness.
As he forgot her birthday twince in a row , he had to redress the issue with an impromptu trip to Italy.