# Surprise Song of the Day!
An action being compared to another greater action… tantamount When something is tantamount to another thing it is essentially its equivalent. For some animal activists, wearing fur is tantamount to murder. Tantamount often refers to an action or thing being compared to another greater action or quality, as in, “Missing your finals is tantamount to dropping out of college.”…
“If you won that lottery jackpot, what would you do with the money?” My mom and I had just crossed the border from our non-lottery state into one that sells tickets and has a billboard with the current jackpot just across the state line. It was a dollar figure that had a couple…
Embarrassed or distressed chagrin Chagrin is a noun that represents an emotion or feeling and it’s an uncomfortable one. If you feel chagrin, it means that you are embarrassed or distressed as a result of a failure. The word chagrin, a noun, comes from the French word of the same spelling and means “melancholy, anxiety, vexation.”…