Word of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to improve vocabulary by learning new words every week.
To participate, simply do a post with your word and leave the link as a comment on Heena’s WOW post.
Here is my WOW for this week:
devastating
Word: devastating
Part Of Speech: adjective ; verb ; devastate; adverb: devastatingly; noun: devastation,devastator; adjective: devastative,
Pronunciation: [dev–uh-stey-ting]
Meaning: extremely effective in a destructive way, causing severe shock, distress, or grief,
Synonyms: destructive, ruinous, disastrous, catastrophic,calamitous, cataclysmic
Word Origin: mid 17th century: from Latin devastat- ‘laid waste’, from the verb devastare, from de- ‘thoroughly’ + vastare ‘lay waste’.
Antonyms: blessed, fortunate
Use in sentence:
A good word to start with for this challenge, Aletta. Your sentences demonstrate very well how it can be used. A great picture of the devastating effects of a forest fire, too. 🙂
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Thank you for your encouraging words Millie!
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Great choice of word, Aletta. It’s good to see you join the WOW challenge. 🙂
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you inspired me to start! Thank you!
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what a capture! wow!
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Thanks!
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Glad you are starting to use this challenge. I wanted to participate but my English is so poor I don’t know which word I can use. (Tong in die kies, my groot woorde is baie algemeen)
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I love learning new words!! ( Ek ken ook nie baie groot woorde nie!! Dankie tog vir google en woordeboeke! Ek kyk maar watter foto’s ek het vir ‘n woord! 🙂 )
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This is different. I love your choice of photo to go with the word. We have seen the fires on the news here. I know you are not where the fires are but take care.
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Thank you, Raewyn, we will take care!
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Dit is nou omtrent ‘n interessante manier om nuwe woorde te leer en jou fotokeuse is amazing. 😀
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Baie dankie, Sonel! Ek dink dit is ‘n uitdaging om nuwe woorde te leer!
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Ek geniet dit ook, veral as dit engels is. 😀
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Dit is so!
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Great pick Aletta! It describes the negative emotion so well.
Thanks for participating in WOW weekly prompt 🙂
PS: You can number the WOW as per your posts… like this is your first, right? So name it WOW #1 (mine was 10th so I named it WOW #10) 🙂
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Thank you Heena, I will do it!
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