This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
Pronounced: (PAHL-ih-tick)
Adjective:
1. marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
2. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
From Vocabulary.com: “Being politic is being polite and agreeable. Screaming and yelling is not politic. Speaking quietly, making apologies, and giving compliments are all politic things to do.”
Example:
“If you abandon the politic and normalize hostility, you forsake hope for a civil society.”
