The Chinese New Year.

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provides:

•  word of the day
• dictionary: both definition and examples.
• thesaurus

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other stuff.

Here is an interesting example which illustrates everyday events:

Blackberry roulette :

Driving a motor vehicle while talking or texting on a cell phone.
"Each time I see someone driving and talking on the phone I say to myself something's got to be done about these dangerous people; but nothing ever is. They just keep motoring along playing Blackberry roulette until one day their carelessness alters the life of an innocent."

Interesting New Year quotations.

http://www.quotegarden.com/new-year.html

some of them:

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.  ~Mark Twain


Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.  ~Dave Beard


Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.  ~Oscar Wilde
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humbug : behaviour or talk that is not sincere