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prescriptive prescriptive : DEFINITION: (adjective) Making or giving injunctions, directions, laws, or rules. SYNONYMS: normative. USAGE: Prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage. Discuss
chary chary : DEFINITION: (adjective) Very cautious; wary. SYNONYMS: cagey. USAGE: She was chary of the risks associated with opening her own business. Discuss
jocund jocund : DEFINITION: (adjective) Sprightly and lighthearted in disposition, character, or quality. SYNONYMS: gay, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful. USAGE: A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company. Discuss
US Supreme Court Declares Standard Oil an "Unreasonable" Monopoly (1911) By 1880, through elimination of competitors, mergers, and railroad rebates, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil controlled the refining of up to 95 percent of all oil produced in the US. In 1892, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the trust dissolved, but it continued to operate. Exposed in Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904, it was broken ...
dilatory dilatory : DEFINITION: (adjective) Tending or inclined to delay or waste time. SYNONYMS: laggard, poky. USAGE: Frank, dilatory in all his proceedings, was the last of the dramatic company who left the precincts of the stage. Discuss