31 MArch 2019

• Pummel: Strike repeatedly with the fists.
• Only later did I realize he was as interested in learning from us as we were in learning from him; he pummeled us with questions about Brazil. (Jim Collins)

13 March 2019

• Ingress: The action or fact of going in or entering; the capacity or right of entrance.
• It is an ingress that has led to an imbalance in how the ICC arbitrates in such issues. (Dawn)

11 March 2019

• Cesspool: An underground container for the temporary storage of liquid waste and sewage; a disgusting or corrupt place.
• We normally avoid frustrated people — we don’t want to get dragged down into a cesspool of complaints and cynicism. (Adam Grant)
• The thinking process attempts to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of logic and plausibility. (Erich Fromm) (Added 20 April 2019)

8 March 2019

• Portend: Be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen.
• But Pfeffer is not convinced that how Klobuchar treats her staff portends her success as president as much as how she gets along with her colleagues. (Kolby Ilkowitz)