and if none of those are correct, my next guess is always STORY

that way i've covered all vowels, plus Y, S & T in just two guesses

d

"I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time on Earth is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, each moment we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody what's us to say, then we are wasting our time