diction

How To Use diction In A Sentence

• According to what I read in a couple of dictionaries, "gild" means to decorate the outside of something, usually unnecessarily. Untwisted Vortex
• Genetic factors, scientists believe, account for 70% of cocaine addiction, making it as heritable as schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
• Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'. Archive 2009-01-01
• There's a lot of useful information on the countries in the world at the back of the dictionary.
• Although alcoholism remains the number one dependency problem among judges and lawyers, the face of addiction continues to change.
• Urban Dictionary definition of "frigging" happened to me today, except it was a work colleague and not Mum. GrodsCorp
•  Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• Does anybody see the contradiction is the Lefts attack on seniors who use Medicare? Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
• I thought I could bestow beauty like a benediction and that your half-dark flesh would answer to the prayer.
• There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize