I heard this word used on the radio to describe the conditions the people of Haiti have had put upon them by the earthquake. It struck me as a very powerful word.
Immiseration the imposition of poverty, not something you would want to do to anyone unless you were really mean or plain careless.
Learn a new word every day.
Repeat it and remind yourself what it means at least three times in a day.
Try to use the word in conversation or writing today.
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What a grey and wet old day to go visiting Llwyn-y-pia Primary School, a vast victorian barn clinging to the side of the Rhonda Valley.
I had a lot of fun and we came up with some great ideas for stories, including a Snake Man who has to be controlled by a specially adapted digger, Ricky Rocket on a trip to catch star fish and a fun story about a beleaguered young girl called lilly with eight brothers and horrible, insensitive parents, who were very Dalek-like!
The trip back was much nicer as the sun had come out, making the bracken covered valley glow.
Basically this means getting faster, but it should really have a mathematical or statistical element to the increase in speed. So tomorrow you may go twice as fast as today, and the dafter you may go twice as fast again. Kind of like how we are depleting the resources of Planet Earth.
Learn a new word every day.
Repeat it and remind yourself what it means at least three times in a day.
Try to use the word in conversation or writing today.
Get a dictionary and look words up.