{UAH} grinch- WORD OF THE DAY December 24, 2018

WORD OF THE DAY December 24, 2018

grinch    noun | GRINCH     Definition   : one who spoils the pleasure of others : killjoy, spoilsport   Scroll down for more about grinch      TRENDING NOW: nebulous synergy slumgullion endgame SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   'Cherpumple': 3 Words Packed Into 1       The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 12/21/18     Just What Does That 'Ae' Say?       A Song for Any Occasion         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Naughty or Nice Quiz   He's making a quiz, and checking it twice...     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   When Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, wrote the children's book How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 1957, he probably had no idea that grinchwould soon enter the general lexicon of English. Like Charles Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge (whose name has become synonymous with miser), the Grinch changes his ways by the story's end, but it's the unreformed character who "hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!" who sticks in our minds. The ill-natured Grinch, with his heart "two sizes too small," provides us with a lively symbol of someone we love to hate, and his name has thus come to refer to any disgruntled grump who ruins the pleasure of others.     Examples of GRINCH   "Chalk it up to a weary world eager for uplifting entertainment, the surprise of a diamond-in-the-rough performer or simply the sheer delight of watching Britain's Got Talent judge and notorious grinch Simon Cowell grow a heart right before the audience's eyes." — Michelle Tauber et al., People, 4 May 2009   "Not content with banning Christmas in 2016, the country's supreme grinch, Kim Jong Un, went further by prohibiting gatherings that involve alcohol and singing, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS)." — John Onyanga-Omara, The Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), 20 Dec. 2017   Test Your Vocabulary   Fill in the blanks to complete a word for someone who makes an active effort to promote human welfare: p _ _ la _ t _ _ op _ _ t.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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