# Surprise Song of the Day!
Innovative concepts…. avant-garde The term avant-garde refers to innovative or experimental concepts or works, or the group of people producing them. Pushing boundaries with his development of Cubism, Pablo Picasso was part of the early 20th-century art world’s avant-garde. In French, avant-garde means the “vanguard” or the “advance guard” — basically the people and ideas that are ahead…
A solution that takes a realistic approach… pragmatic To describe a person or a solution that takes a realistic approach, consider the adjective pragmatic. The four-year-old who wants a unicorn for her birthday isn’t being very pragmatic. If you’re pragmatic, you’re practical. You’re living in the real world, wearing comfortable shoes. If you’re dogmatic, you follow the…
Load of gibberish or nonsense… abracadabra Abracadabra isn’t just a magician’s wind-up to a trick; it’s also a word for a load of gibberish or nonsense. You probably know abracadabra as a word a magician might use before sawing a woman in half or making something disappear. However, it has another meaning similar to other…