Word of the day

[2jules7]

Theres thumb trick you can do to see if its really a clandestine two-way mirror.
...I just domt remember what it is.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 30, 2009

badinage \bad-n-AHZH\, noun:

Light, playful talk; banter.

Ken was determined to put the cares of the world behind him and do what he loved best -- having a few celebrity friends round and enjoying an evening of anecdote and badinage over a bottle or two of vintage bubbly and some tasty cheese straws.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 1, 2009

penury \PEN-yuh-ree\, noun:

1. Extreme poverty; destitution.
2. Absence of resources; insufficiency.

Charles regretted his departure, and the penury of his treasury, but trusted that God would favour him in his struggle against the king of France.

[2jules7]

Some people tend to make badinage towards the penury ones,while others enjoy hearing their stories.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Friday, July 3, 2009

doughty \DOW-tee\, adjective:

Marked by fearless resolution; valiant; brave.

He was obsessed with the Arctic, his imagination stoked by epic accounts of the doughty pioneers who had led wooden ships into uncharted waters and northern mists.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Saturday, July 4, 2009

rampart \ram-pahrt\, noun:

1. A fortification consisting of an embankment, often with a parapet built on top.
2. A means of protection or defense; a bulwark.
3. To defend with a rampart.

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Sunday, July 5, 2009

affray \uh-FRAY\, noun:

A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl.

Mounted encounters by armored knights locked in desperate hand-to-hand combat, stabbing and wrestling in tavern brawls, deceits and brutalities in street affrays, balletic homicide on the dueling field--these were the martial arts of Renaissance Europe.

[2jules7]

Stunt doubles are pretty doughty.
Johnny defended his story with rampart when Timmy had lied about the affray.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Monday, July 6, 2009

verdant \VUR-dnt\, adjective:

1. Green with vegetation; covered with green growth.
2. Green.
3. Lacking experience or sophistication; naive.

Drab in winter, then suddenly sodden with alpine runoff, the region turns dazzlingly verdant in spring.

[2jules7]

I dont really get the first two, I thought green was a color or another word for money. They just dont seem to go with the third definition. :s Green growth, lacking experience. I dont know, i'll just make a sentence now....

Hannah Montana is very verdant when it comes to singing.
Sorry Britt, it was the first thing that popped into my head.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 7, 2009

shibboleth \SHIB-uh-lith; -leth\, noun:

1. A peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular group of persons.
2. A slogan; a catchword.
3. A common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

[2jules7]

Anymore there are so many shibboleths its just easier to make up your own.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Thursday, July 9, 2009
fervid \FUR-vid\, adjective:

1. Heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.
2. Burning; glowing; intensely hot.

Over the last week, the Cubs opened their home season at Wrigley Field, and the city's Lyric Opera was presenting Richard Wagner's four-opera "Ring des Nibelungen," which meant that two of the world's most fervid fan bases were simultaneously encamped on opposite sides of the Chicago River.
-- Bruce Weber, "Take Me Out to the Opera: In Chicago, a Fan Is a Fan", New York Times, April 16, 2009

[2jules7]

Johnny Cash had a fervid ring of fire.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Friday, July 10, 2009

bravura \bruh-VYUR-uh; brah-; -VUR-\, noun:

1. A florid, brilliant style of music that emphasizes the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music.
2. A showy or brilliant display.

But it was not just the bravura of his self-expression that gave him such a hold on his contemporaries.
-- Peter Ackroyd, "Oscar Wilde: Comedy as Tragedy,", New York Times, November 1, 1987

[2jules7]

The man with the rainbow afro had a bravura preformance.

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Saturday, July 11, 2009

gauche \GOHSH\, adjective:

Lacking social polish; tactless; awkward; clumsy.

He was largely exempted from the formal socializing he said he found so hard to manage, flustered and gauche in polite company as he had always been.
-- John Sturrock, "Well on the Way to Paranoia", New York Times, July 28, 1991

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Sunday, July 12, 2009

ineffable \in-EF-uh-buhl\, adjective:

1. Incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable.
2. Not to be uttered; taboo.

. . .the tension inherent in human language when it attempts to relate the ineffable, see the invisible, understand the incomprehensible.
-- Jeffrey Burton Russell, A History of Heaven

[BM <3]

Word of the Day for Monday, July 13, 2009

sartorial \sar-TOR-ee-uhl\, adjective:

1. Of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring.
2. Of or relating to clothing, or style or manner of dress.
3. [Anatomy] Of or relating to the sartorius muscle.

His sartorial style runs toward jeans, Hawaiian shirts and cowboy boots, and he favors the grizzled, haven't-shaven-in-days look.

[2jules7]

Jan is so gauche that its just ineffable. Her outfit is a sartorial wreck.