19 May 2015

• Ruse: A trick, stratagem, or artifice; an action intended to mislead, deceive, or trick
• He forbore, in the end, to do so, having hit on the ruse of publishing his paper as an advertisement. (Walter Gratzer)
• Apogee: The highest or most distant point; climax 
• But it is nonsense to do it on the theoretical ground that the period which marked the apogee of the individual, and so on, has ended. (Saul Bellow)  
• Imbibe: To take or receive into the mind knowledge, ideas, or the like
• He is accustomed to keeping quiet, and if he wants to imbibe an atmosphere, he must blend in with the crowd. (Patrick Modiano) 
• Egregious: Extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant
• Owning a human being became debt's most egregious manifestation. (Harris Irfan) 
• Once again, Pakistan has spectacularly failed a basic test of humanity. This one, not on account of frenzied mob playing judge, judge, jury, and executioner but simply because a callous state chose-willfully and deliberately-not to right an egregious wrong committed against one of its weakest and most disadvantaged citizens. (Dawn-14 June 2015) 
• Panache: A grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair
• Here is a book about global high finance written with lyricism and panache of any best-selling author of literary fiction. (Kathleen Dupre)