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#441
02-18-2009, 11:04 pm
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 18, 2009
consternation \kon-ster-NEY-shuhn\, noun: sudden dread or paralyzing terror To our consternation, the phone rang just as we were about to leave.        
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#442
02-21-2009, 02:26 am
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The consternation hit right before she walked on stage.
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you are more than the choices that you've made, you are more than the sum of your past mistakes, you are more than the problems you create, you've been remade.
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#443
02-22-2009, 01:18 am
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Word of the Day for Saturday, February 21, 2009
hermetic \hur-MET-ik\, adjective: 1. closed tightly; airtight 2. obscure; magical French control of the border in barring foreign volunteers is so hermetic that Mrs. Stattelman, a former Red Cross nurse who served with the French Army during the World War and is a Swiss citizen, 60 years old, was refused a passport into Spain both at Toulouse and Bordeaux.
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#444
02-22-2009, 04:46 am
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Word of the Day for Sunday, February 22, 2009
nocuous \NOK-yoo-uhs\, adjective: very hurtful; noxious The most important conclusions are that the bile of nocuous or venomous serpents is the most powerful antidote to venom.
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#445
02-22-2009, 04:33 pm
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Word of the Day for Friday, February 20, 2009
ellipsis \i-LIP-sis\, noun: three dots used to show an omission in writing or printing; the omission of a word or words in text
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#446
02-22-2009, 10:52 pm
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The hermit crab was hermetic.
The truth can be nocuous, but is often well worth it. His story finishes with an ellipsis.
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you are more than the choices that you've made, you are more than the sum of your past mistakes, you are more than the problems you create, you've been remade.
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#447
02-23-2009, 02:43 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, February 23, 2009
beseech \bi-SEECH\, verb; beseech, besought or beseeched, beseeching: to ask earnestly; implore In this purgatory, the narrator feels threatened by more recent emigres who beseech him for help and force him to face the hard fact of his own displacement.
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#448
02-23-2009, 05:40 pm
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Children beseech the funniest things.
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you are more than the choices that you've made, you are more than the sum of your past mistakes, you are more than the problems you create, you've been remade.
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#449
02-24-2009, 02:30 pm
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 24, 2009
peculate \PEK-yuh-leyt\, verb: to steal money or goods entrusted to one; embezzle Not surprisingly, they use their positions to demand bribes and peculate public funds.
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#450
02-26-2009, 02:42 pm
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Word of the Day for Thursday, February 26, 2009
declaim \di-KLEYM\, verb: to orate; to speak in a loud and emotional manner What is the clue to understanding a country rife with despair and disrepair, which nonetheless moved a Mughal emperor to declaim, "If on earth there be paradise of bliss, it is this, it is this, it is this ...?"
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#451
02-26-2009, 07:19 pm
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The police declaimed at the kids for peculating.
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you are more than the choices that you've made, you are more than the sum of your past mistakes, you are more than the problems you create, you've been remade.
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#452
02-27-2009, 05:12 am
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Word of the Day for Friday, February 27, 2009
hidebound \HAHYD-bound\, adjective: narrow-minded and stubborn In recent years, there has been another voice on the scene -- one that has infused this hidebound, somewhat predictable genre with an unsettling energy
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#453
02-27-2009, 05:56 pm
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Hidebound, also known as a donkey.
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#454
03-01-2009, 12:15 am
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Word of the Day for Saturday, February 28, 2009
pedant \PED-nt\, noun: a person who makes a show of detailed knowledge, esp. relying on books; also, a narrow-minded teacher or scholar All too often, science fiction provokes the pedant in professional scientists, for whom a beautiful story can be ruined by a single petty error.
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#455
03-01-2009, 11:54 am
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Uhm, would Journey to the Center of the Earth be pedant?
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#456
03-01-2009, 02:38 pm
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Word of the Day for Sunday, March 1, 2009
lampoon \lam-POON\, noun, verb: 1. a composition that imitates or misrepresents someone's style, usually in a humorous way 2. a light, good-humored satire 3. ridicule with satire Attendees typically lampoon US presidents with grotesque puppets and caricatures.
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#457
03-02-2009, 12:41 am
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Word of the Day for Sunday, March 1, 2009
lampoon \lam-POON\, noun, verb: 1. a composition that imitates or misrepresents someone's style, usually in a humorous way 2. a light, good-humored satire 3. ridicule with satire Attendees typically lampoon US presidents with grotesque puppets and caricatures.
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#458
03-02-2009, 11:10 am
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Ooooooooo you got some really good ones going there lately!
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#459
03-02-2009, 02:58 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, March 2, 2009
sanguine \SANG-gwin\, adjective, noun; Also used as a noun, red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings: 1. cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident 2. reddish; ruddy 3. (in old physiology) having blood as the predominating humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful, etc. 4. blood-red; red 5. Heraldry. a reddish-purple tincture. 6. a red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
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#460
03-02-2009, 06:15 pm
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