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#521
04-06-2009, 05:35 pm
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We all huddled in a corner for aegis while they searched the school.
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#522
04-07-2009, 04:39 am
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 7, 2009
nescience \NESH-uhn(t)s; NESH-ee-uhn(t)s\, noun: Lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance. The ancients understood that too much knowledge could actually impede human functioning -- this at a time when the encroachments on global nescience were comparatively few.
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#523
04-07-2009, 08:38 pm
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Gold fish are kind of nescience.
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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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#524
04-08-2009, 04:20 pm
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 8, 2009
chimerical \ky-MER-ih-kuhl; -MIR-; kih-\, adjective: 1. Merely imaginary; produced by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; fantastic; improbable or unrealistic. 2. Given to or indulging in unrealistic fantasies or fantastic schemes. But those risks are real, not chimerical.
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#525
04-09-2009, 05:04 pm
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Word of the Day for Thursday, April 9, 2009
impugn \im-PYOON\, transitive verb: To attack by words or arguments; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to oppose or challenge as false; to gainsay. As might be expected of fanatical flag idolaters, the GAR did not accept refusals lightly, and in one instance in Illinois impugned the patriotic loyalty of recalcitrant local school administrators by spreading rumors that one of them was a foreign alien yet to be naturalized and the other a draft dodger who evaded Civil War service by fleeing to Canada.
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#526
04-09-2009, 08:40 pm
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Harry Potter is chimerical.
The police started to impugn the suspect until his lawyer came.
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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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#527
04-10-2009, 05:27 am
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Word of the Day for Friday, April 10, 2009
frisson \free-SOHN\, noun: A moment of intense excitement; a shudder; an emotional thrill. When we think a story hasn't been invented, there's an extra frisson in reading it.
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#528
04-11-2009, 06:11 pm
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Word of the Day for Saturday, April 11, 2009
portend \por-TEND\, verb: To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshadow; to bode. Although no humans were there to witness the giant comet of 65 million years ago, in this case it really did portend disaster.
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#529
04-12-2009, 06:07 pm
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Word of the Day for Sunday, April 12, 2009
pulchritude \PUL-kruh-tood; -tyood\, noun: That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness. No stranger aftermath developed after the war, Thorek recalled, "than the sudden hope, surging through feminine -- and sometimes masculine -- hearts, that where nature had been *****rdly in her gifts of pulchritude, the knife of the surgeon could remedy the lack."
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#530
04-12-2009, 08:01 pm
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They were full of frisson before the roller coaster ride.
The fortune teller portended this would happen. Super models pulchritude they eyes of many.
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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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#531
04-13-2009, 08:30 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, April 13, 2009
susurrus \su-SUHR-uhs\, noun: A whispering or rustling sound; a murmur. Still, the breeze is soothing, as is the susurrus of the branches.
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#532
04-14-2009, 04:32 pm
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 14, 2009
labile \LAY-byl\, adjective: 1. Open to change; apt or likely to change; adaptable. 2. Constantly or readily undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown; unstable. They are too open to the rest of the world, too labile, too prone to foreign influence.
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#533
04-14-2009, 09:48 pm
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Did you hear all the susurrus' during the movie?
He was labile when it came to his writing technique.
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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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#534
04-15-2009, 04:35 pm
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 15, 2009
outré \oo-TRAY\, adjective: Unconventional; eccentric; bizarre. This seven-year-old house of outré culture is the kind of place you can shop for a sculpture made out of working flamethrowers, videocassettes of underground movies, computer-generated art or a cute robot
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#535
04-15-2009, 06:04 pm
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This weather is outré!
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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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#536
04-16-2009, 04:18 am
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Word of the Day for Thursday, April 16, 2009
etiolate \EE-tee-uh-layt\, transitive verb: 1. (Botany) To bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight. 2. To make pale or sickly. 3. To make weak by stunting the growth or development of. 4. (Botany) To become bleached or whitened, as when grown without sunlight. Under that etiolated sky all life seemed wrung out.
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#537
04-17-2009, 01:50 am
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The vampires were made etiolate in Twilight.
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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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#538
04-17-2009, 06:19 am
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Word of the Day for Friday, April 17, 2009
ephemeral \ih-FEM-er-ul\, adjective: 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; as, an ephemeral flower. 2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
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#539
04-17-2009, 11:18 am
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A flys life is ephemeral.
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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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#540
04-19-2009, 04:58 pm
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Word of the Day for Saturday, April 18, 2009
quiddity \KWID-ih-tee\, n.: 1. The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity of a thing. 2. A hairsplitting distinction; a trifling point; a quibble. 3. An eccentricity; an odd feature. He wanted to capture not just live animals, but the aliveness of animals in their natural state: their wildness, their quiddity, the fox-ness of the fox and the crow-ness of the crow
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