Motivational Quote

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need."- Voltaire

Monday, August 30, 2010

Vocabulary

Solace (noun)

Definition: Alleviation of grief or anxiety.

Source of sentence: Yet these truths are no solace against the kind of alienation that comes of being ever the suspect, against being set apart, a fearsome entity with whom pedestrians avoid making eye contact.

The context clue: "ever the suspect" was an indirect antonym. If you were "ever the suspect," you are not alleviated from anxiety or grief.

Sentence: Music is the solace of bad day full of lives hardships.

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