Day 1,213: revere and revile
Do people revere Mr Xi and revile foreign critics?
Artwork of the day
Reverie
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date: 1868
Style: Romanticism
Genre: genre painting
Media: chalk, paper
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Dimensions: 84 x 71 cm
Word of the day
revere: to very much respect and admire someone or something
revile: to criticize someone strongly, or say unpleasant things to or about someone
Quote of the day
“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
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