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#501
03-26-2009, 05:54 pm
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My sister will be coming back in propinquity, and I couldnt be more excited to see her pictures. :]
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#502
03-27-2009, 10:07 pm
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Word of the Day for Friday, March 27, 2009
feckless \FEK-lis\, adjective: 1. Ineffective; having no real worth or purpose. 2. Worthless; irresponsible; generally incompetent and ineffectual. He was a great admirer of the poetry of plain speech. He despised mere feckless adornments of language or thought.
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#503
03-28-2009, 04:28 pm
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Word of the Day for Saturday, March 28, 2009
velleity \veh-LEE-uh-tee; vuh-\, noun: 1. The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition. 2. A slight wish or inclination. To become now a priest was an elevation of sorts; yet the ceremony, as we would soon see, reinforced every contrast between the life he would lead and the life of the high and mighty, for whom the crowds roar and the bands play, courtiers and servants surrounding them to gratify the least velleity, historians on their toes to record their wispiest thought.
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#504
03-28-2009, 08:39 pm
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Swiffers are feckless.
Its always a velleity to use them.
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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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#505
03-29-2009, 03:23 pm
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Word of the Day for Sunday, March 29, 2009
osculation \os-kyuh-LAY-shuhn\, noun: The act of kissing; also: a kiss. He had engaged in nervous osculation with all three of Lord Flamborough's daughters.
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#506
03-29-2009, 09:57 pm
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Romeo and Juliet ended with an osculation.
...or something like that. :]
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#507
03-30-2009, 03:22 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, March 30, 2009
ludic \LOO-dik\, adjective: Of or relating to play; characterized by play; playful. Um, there's only one problem: her mother. Who, being a substantial executive, has a somewhat different attitude to the worth of the professions than her wastrel, ludic husband.
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#508
03-30-2009, 09:37 pm
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Puppies are very ludic.
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#509
03-31-2009, 03:37 pm
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 31, 2009
contretemps \KAHN-truh-tahn\, noun; plural contretemps \-tahnz\: An inopportune or embarrassing situation or event; a hitch. Mrs. Post was the center of a notable contretemps when she spilled a spoonful of berries at a dinner of the Gourmet Society here in 1938.
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#510
03-31-2009, 11:22 pm
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There will be many contretemps for people tomorrow.
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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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#511
04-01-2009, 11:56 pm
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 1, 2009
jape \JAYP\, noun, verb: 1. A joke or jest. 2. A trick or prank. 3. To joke; to jest. 4. To make fun of; to mock. One elderly Englishman, complete with tweed suit and cane, japed to a passport control officer: "We're not all hooligans you know."
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#512
04-02-2009, 03:10 pm
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Word of the Day for Thursday, April 2, 2009
gambol \GAM-buhl\, intransitive verb: 1. To dance and skip about in play; to frolic. 2. A skipping or leaping about in frolic. I've been told dolphins like to gambol in the waves in these waters, and that sighting them brings good luck.
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#513
04-02-2009, 05:59 pm
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Jack played a jape on Jill then gambold on his merry way.
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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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#514
04-03-2009, 05:53 am
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Word of the Day for Friday, April 3, 2009
longueur \long-GUR\, noun: A dull and tedious passage in a book, play, musical composition, or the like. One of the commentators compared my speech to one of Gladstone's which had lasted five hours. "It was not so long, but some of the speech's . . . longueurs made Gladstone seem the soul of brevity," he wrote.
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#515
04-03-2009, 11:04 pm
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The Glass Menagerie seemed to be one big longueur.
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#516
04-04-2009, 05:47 pm
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Word of the Day for Saturday, April 4, 2009
flummox \FLUM-uhks\, transitive verb: To confuse; to perplex. And when a poll's results happen to upset the conventional wisdom, orconfound the experts, or flummox the pundits, then that's a poll toremember.
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#517
04-04-2009, 07:56 pm
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Quantum physics flummoxs many people.
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#518
04-05-2009, 04:14 pm
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Word of the Day for Sunday, April 5, 2009
grandiloquent \gran-DIL-uh-kwuhnt\, adjective: Lofty in style; pompous; bombastic. He became more than usually grandiloquent as if to make up for the years of silence with words of gold.
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#519
04-06-2009, 01:25 am
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Carrie Underwoods dress on the CMA was pretty grandiloquent....
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#520
04-06-2009, 04:19 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, April 6, 2009
aegis \EE-jis\, noun: 1. Protection; support. 2. Sponsorship; patronage. 3. Guidance, direction, or control. 4. A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Zeus. It is this ideal of the human under the aegis of something higher which seems to me to provide the strongest counterpressure against the fragmentation and barbarization of our world.
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