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Good day TTB followers and welcome to Vocab Building. Join me as we explore words from weird,  to archaic, to long and short, simple and complex, to even slang words. Today we're going to hop on a time machine and check out some archaic words that are no longer gracing our vocabularies. Dame — an elderly or mature woman. Damsel  — a young unmarried woman. Dandiprat — a young or insignificant person. Darbies — handcuffs. Dark — ignorant. Degrade — reduce to a lower rank, especially as a punishment. Degree — social or official rank. Delate — report (an offence). Demesne — a region or domain. Demit — resign from (an office or position). Demoralize — corrupt the morals of. Dight — clothed or equipped. Discover — divulge (a secret). Disport — frolic. Dispraise — censure or criticize. Doit — a very small amount of money. Dot — a dowry from which only the interest or annual income was available to the husband. Doxy — a lover or mistress. Dra...

Tom Jomby, Pranjala Yadlapalli win Lagos Open The first leg of the Lagos Open had its final curtain fall on Saturday with Frenchman Tom Jomby and India's Pranjala Yadlapalli clinching the men's and women's titles, respectively. Jomby, who's the tournament top seed, defeated Arthur Rinderknech in the all-French final 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 to claim his first Lagos Open title and 6th career ITF Futures crown. The 27-year-old came into the match without the loss of a set all week and stormed to a 6-3 opening set win. Rinderknech, however, levelled matters, showing quick movements and an array of shots to force a decider, and then stormed to a 3-0 lead in the final set. He, however, wasn't able to see it through as Jomby made a remarkable fightback, winning six games on the bounce to seal victory. In the women's final, which was played earlier, 19-year-old Yadlapalli stunned top seed, Conny Perrin. Perrin, chasing a fourth Lagos Open crown, entered the match the f...

That Name is Jesus Hello! Welcome to the Opened My Eyes Corner again. I only know one name that reigns supreme The name that made us who we are And at the sound of that name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess YOU ARE LORD That name is Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus You are Lord, You are GOD That name is Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Yes You reign!! You reign forever more!!! How I love that name.  He's got the sweetest name... There's a mighty name that heals all our disease, the blind begin to see and the lame begin to walk And at the sound of that name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess YOU ARE LORD... This is an excerpt from "The Jesus song" by Dr Tumi. I encourage you to download that song and other songs by him. Enjoy!! Have a great week. Post by: Ayomide Nathaniel Adebanji Facebook: Ayomide Nathaniel Adebanji IG& Twitter: @nathanbanji

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF CLOTHES TO WEAR! Hello dear, welcome to another session of style zone. My dear readers, have you ever had to go out and you felt there was nothing to wear? When you feel this way, do a thorough purge of your closet, i mean take everything out and start sorting things. Cleaning out your closet can be very stressful and daunting especially if you have clothes that you haven't touched in years. We tend to convince ourselves that certain pieces might make a comeback, therefore we keep stuff that are not needed, but sometimes you just need to let things go. A closet purge is actually what you need to give you a fresh start on your journey of style. When you think of what to keep or do away with, ask yourself questions like; does it still fit? When last did i wear it? Is it damaged? If i saw it in a store today, would i still buy it? If you've answered no to these questions, then it's truly time to let go. Now you want to keep the ba...

Wollup guys! It's your favourite girl showing up here for the first time and I'm about to lit your mind and steal your hearts away... Ok, call me Ese like Tellrhodes always calls me. Wanna know more? Errm, let's save that for some other time. I'll be talking about NO WORRIES GANG today💃💃💃 Remember when we were much younger and we sang We are H A P P Y We are H A P P Y We know we are we are sure we are We are H A P P Y,  HAPPY. We were legit very Happy Why? Because we had no worries Anybody tell me what happened to those days??? Arrrgghhh I guess time and chance took it away from us Our only "worries" then were obeying mummy and daddy, going to school, having to run errands etc and above all wanting to grow up so desperately. Aside those, we were perfectly fine. Fast forward to our grown up days (now), we are too busy to even think of our own selves. Everyone just too busy doing a whole lot either physically, mentally, emotionally, spirit...

UNDERSTANDING PURPOSE ...... DebTalk Hey Lovers, your girl is here again(......sips zobo) This past week has been so busy for me, but then, I can't let the week pass without saying hello to you guys, I know you would be waiting patiently for me........lol😄 So today we would be talking about something very important. Wait, I almost forgot.. I have a Secret to let out today again. Hmmm, who is ready to hear this one😁. Oya bring your ears close, before you say I didn't tell you now....Okay, the secret is this 👉🏼"I Love Children, and I plan having "A House-Full of Them", say like thousands inside, when I am comfortable enough too. Nobody should Call it Obsession oo😒............Lol Now to the main gist of today.. UNDERSTANDING PURPOSE! I, and some Few Friends visited a School, on Wednesday to have an hangout with the Students, and we had the opportunity to dig into this topic, the response we got was quite amazing. A Wise Proverb reads "When t...

LETTER TO ~ME~ YOU "NO GO DEY DO PASS YOURSELF" Dear Me, Happy New Month and Independence day in arrears. As always the question of "Are we really independent" came to the fore and through the day, I thought of answers to that question till I gave up. I really wish I could discuss issues surrounding independence in this letter but that would take perhaps days. So let me tell you something that happened just two days ago, and see if I can teach you one or two To keep my brain cells active, I joined up with an academic group on Uncle Zuckerberg's WhatsApp. PS: He and I are really related. Shh. Tell no one. 😂 Anyway,  not long after, a set of questions came on the group, and eagerly, I stepped up to show my mental macho...ness. In 5 mins or so, I was done, feeling like "piece of cake". A while after, answers came. Let me pause here. See, sometimes, when God is going to humble you, he'll use your "wisdom" to do it. Unpause. So ...