curated
V: to pull together, sift through, and select for presentation, as music or website content
original: a new bilingual app that delivers a curated selection of The Economist's business.
e.g.:
1. We curate our merchandise with a sharp eye for trending fashion,” the store manager explained.
2. It is a curated boutique rather than one that tries to provide a little something to appeal to all comers.
nuance:
N: a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.
original: each article has been carefully translated to maintain the stylistic nuances of the original text.
e.g.: A first draft is really just a sketch on which I add layer and dimension and shade and nuance and color.
blend:
V: to mix or mingle
N: a mixture or kind produced by blending
original: to our characteristic blend of reporting
e.g.: a special blend of rye and wheat flours
mammon:
N: (often initial capital letter) a personification of riches as an evil spirit ordeity.
original: Mammon's manichean turn
e.g.: When it comes to Hollywood and films about faith, God and mammon are both finding devotees
giddy:
adjective: affected with vertigo; dizzy.
original: some of the world's best business people are giddy with optimism.
e.g.: For the past week, political junkies through out my home city of Chicago have been rubbing our hands in giddy anticipation.
abundance:
N: affluence; wealth
pessimism:
N: the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.
original: others are haunted by pessimism.
e.g.: His pessimism about the future of our country depresses me.
secular:
Adj:
1. going on from age to age; continuing through long ages.
2. of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded asreligious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal:
original: secular stagnation
e.g.: Packing venues across the country, he was received like a rock star, or asecular saint.
mindset:
N:
1. an attitude, disposition, or mood.
2. an intention or inclination.
3. the ideas and attitudes with which a person approaches a situation, esp when these are seen as being difficult to alter
original: productivity-boosting mindset
e.g.: That moment, he told Steve Kornacki, “personified a mindset that I was part of and that an amazing number of people were part of.”
mind-boggling:
N: (informal) astonishing; bewildering
original: a mind-boggling range of industries
e.g.: To be mentioned in the same paragraph in print with these people is mind-boggling to me.
dusk:
N: partial darkness; shade; gloom
orignal: the dusk of disability
e.g.: She was barely visible in the dusk of the room.
sputter:
V: to make explosive popping or sizzling sounds.
original: these spirits are being lost as economies sputter and stagnate.
e.g.: They continue to sputter up and down, without fully recovering.
stoking:
V: to tend a fire or furnace, to feed, stir, and tend (a fire, furnace, etc)
original: the very forces that are promoting optimism in the tech elite are stoking pessimism elsewhere.
e.g.: She knows full well that some rappers sit in relative safety while stoking the violence.
specter:
N:
1.a ghost; phantom; apparition
2. a mental image of something unpleasant or menacing: the spectre ofredundancy
3. some object or source of terror or dread
original: it is raising the specter of mass unemployment.
e.g.: the specter of disease or famine.
hitherto:
adv: up to this time; until now
original: the logic of efficiency and competition is extending to areas that have hitherto been protected.
e.g.: At this my hitherto silent dinner partner on the other side suddenly weighedin.
brigade
N:
1. a large body of troops.
2. a group of individuals organized for a particular purpose:
original: the spare-room brigade
clout:
N:
1. power or influence, esp in politics
2. (archery)
the target used in long-distance shooting
the centre of this target
a shot that hits the centre
oroginal: xxx is replacing clout as the most prized quality.
e.g.: Obama has always had reason going for him on the budget, but he lacked the clout to sell his plan.