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#581
05-13-2009, 04:44 am
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 13, 2009
abnegate \AB-nih-gayt\, transitive verb: 1. To refuse or deny oneself; to reject; to renounce. 2. To give up (rights, claims, etc.); to surrender; to relinquish. An exaggerated veneration for an exceptional individual will allow worshippers "to abnegate responsibility, looking to the great man for salvation or for fulfilment" that we should work out for ourselves.        
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#582
05-14-2009, 04:30 am
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Word of the Day for Thursday, May 14, 2009
unctuous \UNGK-choo-us\, adjective: 1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. 2. Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals. 3. Insincerely or excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; marked by a false or smug earnestness or agreeableness. A warmed, crusty French roll arrives split, lightly smeared with unctuous chopped liver.
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#583
05-14-2009, 11:58 pm
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He falls asleep during the lectures because the teachers voice seemed to bombinate forever.
There is much odium for that lady. She abnegated her addiction today. McDonalds fries are unctuous.
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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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#584
05-15-2009, 04:34 am
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Word of the Day for Friday, May 15, 2009
querulous \KWER-uh-luhs; -yuh\, adjective: 1. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining. 2. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining. Querulous Oscar rattles on, never more or less than himself, but never much more than the content of his grumpy rattling.
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#585
05-15-2009, 07:09 pm
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The children were querulous when the teacher gave them a pop quiz.
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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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#586
05-16-2009, 05:32 am
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Word of the Day for Saturday, May 16, 2009
stolid \STOL-id\, adjective: Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited. Normally stolid, she occasionally joined in the frequent applause and smiled along with the laughter at the high-spirited session.
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#587
05-16-2009, 11:34 am
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Teh cat is very stolid when he wakes you up in the morning.
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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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#588
05-17-2009, 04:26 pm
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Word of the Day for Sunday, May 17, 2009
exigency \EK-suh-jun-see; ig-ZIJ-un-see\, noun: 1. The quality or state of requiring immediate aid or action; urgency. 2. A case demanding immediate action or remedy; a pressing or urgent situation. 3. That which is demanded or required in a particular situation -- usually used in the plural. Finally, in late 1961 and early 1962, naked exigency forced the Chinese Communist Party to recognize the extent of the crisis it had created. The most deadly innovations from the Great Leap Forward were quietly abandoned or reversed; almost immediately, this artificially manufactured famine came to an end.
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#589
05-18-2009, 04:25 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, May 18, 2009
pernicious \pur-NISH-us\, adjective: Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful. Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.
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#590
05-18-2009, 09:29 pm
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He fell off his bike and went into an exigency state. It turns out that mountain was very pernicious.
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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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#591
05-19-2009, 04:46 am
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 19, 2009
fey \FAY\, adjective: 1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin. 2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant. 3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched. 4. (Scots.) Fated to die; doomed. 5. (Scots.) Marked by a sense of approaching death. . . .the former a gang of dangerous delinquents, fearless, macho, vulgar . . ., the latter a group of mischievous schoolboys, whimsical, fey, sophisticated and daringly experimental.
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#592
05-19-2009, 09:54 pm
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Today, my panda looked fey.
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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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#593
05-20-2009, 04:18 pm
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 20, 2009
satiety \suh-TY-uh-tee\, noun: The state of being full or gratified to or beyond the point of satisfaction. Carbohydrates, especially the starchy ones like pasta and potatoes, provide a feeling of satiety, both physiologically and psychologically.
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#594
05-20-2009, 07:13 pm
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Hungry Hungry Hippos are often satiety after a fun night playing.
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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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#595
05-21-2009, 04:41 pm
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Word of the Day for Thursday, May 21, 2009
immure \ih-MYUR\, verb: 1. To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. 2. To build into a wall. 3. To entomb in a wall. Not surprisingly, Sally shuddered at the thought of being immured in the black cave, to die slowly and hopelessly, far below the sunny hillside.
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#596
05-21-2009, 05:11 pm
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The Egyptian kings were immure in pyramids.
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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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#597
05-22-2009, 05:11 am
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Word of the Day for Friday, May 22, 2009
buss \BUS\, noun, verb: 1. A kiss; a playful kiss; a smack. 2. To kiss; especially to kiss with a smack. Lucky guesser gets a buss upon his plucky kisser.
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#598
05-22-2009, 09:29 am
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After a long flight home Sally gave George a good buss.
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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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#599
05-23-2009, 07:31 am
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Word of the Day for Saturday, May 23, 2009
equanimity \ee-kwuh-NIM-uh-tee; ek-wuh-\, noun: Evenness of mind; calmness; composure; as, "to bear misfortunes with equanimity." For one whose mind has been notoriously troubled, Brian Lara is at least retaining a sense of equanimity.
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#600
05-24-2009, 01:20 pm
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The sound of the ocean is great for equanimity.
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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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