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#1101
07-10-2010, 05:13 pm
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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 10, 2010
snuff \SNUHF\, verb: 1. To extinguish or suppress. 2. To cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.). noun: 1. The charred or partly consumed portion of a candlewick. 2. A preparation of tobacco, either powdered and taken into the nostrils by inhalation or ground and placed between the cheek and gum. verb: 1. To draw in through the nose by inhaling. Derek Jeter bashed Duensing's sixth pitch into the bullpen, then almost single-handedly made the run hold up with a spectacular play to snuff a second-and-third Twins threat, and the Yankees won for the 10th time in their last 11 games against the Twins. -- Phil Miller, "Twins do everything right but win", FoxSportsNorth.com, May 2010
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#1102
07-12-2010, 12:10 am
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Word of the Day for Sunday, July 11, 2010
aeromancy \AIR-uh-man-see\, noun: The prediction of future events from observation of weather conditions. The wreckage of vast sundowns predicts in sulphurous aeromancy havoc to be. -- Robert Malise and Bowyer Nichols, Fantastica: being The smile of the Sphinx, and other tales of imagination
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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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#1103
07-12-2010, 05:57 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, July 12, 2010
subtilize \SUHT-l-ahyz\, verb: 1. To make (the mind, senses, etc.) keen or discerning. 2. To elevate in character. 3. To make thin, rare, or more fluid or volatile; refine. By long brooding over our recollections, we subtilize them into something akin to imaginary stuff, and hardly capable of being distinguished from it. -- Nathanial Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
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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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#1104
07-14-2010, 01:32 am
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 13, 2010
vestigial \ve-STIJ-ee-uhl\, adjective: 1. Relating to a body part that has become small and lost its use because of evolutionary change. 2. Pertaining to, or of the nature of anything that is no longer present or in existence. Pixar filmmakers have to be able to tap into their vestigial child, their inner Andy. In that sense, the Toy Story series is their collective autobiography. -- Richard Corliss, "End of Innocence", Time, June 2010.
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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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#1105
07-14-2010, 09:42 pm
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 14, 2010
spoor \SPOHR\, noun: 1. A track or trail, esp. that of a wild animal pursued as game. verb: 1. To track by or follow a spoor. In all cases, however, a spoor is to be worked out like a problem, and requires as much brain- work as many equations, and far more original talent and observation. -- William Chambers and Robert Chambers, Chambers's journal, Volumes 39-40
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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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#1106
07-17-2010, 08:50 am
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Word of the Day for Thursday, July 15, 2010
bran****n \BRAN-i-guhn\, noun: 1. A carouse. 2. A squabble; a brawl. Polonius certainly spoke a mouthful of truth to Laertes when he advised him, in effect, "Don't start a Bran****n. But if somebody else does, give 'em hell! -- Ty Cobb and Al Stump, My life in baseball: the true record
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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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#1107
07-17-2010, 08:51 am
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Word of the Day for Friday, July 16, 2010
undercast \UHN-der-kast\, noun: 1. Something viewed from above through another medium, as of clouds viewed from an airplane. 2. Mining. A crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level so that one descends to pass beneath the other without any opening into it. His skin was white, but the sweater brought out the undercast of pale, pale green so that his skin was either pearl white or a dreamlike green depending on how the light hit it. -- Laurel K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows
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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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#1108
07-17-2010, 08:51 am
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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 17, 2010
palladian \puh-LEY-dee-uhn\, adjective: 1. Pertaining to wisdom, knowledge, or study. 2. Of or pertaining to the goddess Athena. 3. Pertaining to, introduced by, or in the architectural style of Andrea Palladio. Within the sanctuary the gold and ivory image of Athena, fashioned by Phidias, had given way to the pale face of Our Lady, Mother of the Holy Child, and the grandiloquent Latin of the mass rolled its volume through the hall that once had echoed to the sonorous Greek of the Palladian hymns. -- Justin Huntly McCarthy, The dryad: a novel
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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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#1109
07-18-2010, 08:54 am
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Word of the Day for Sunday, July 18, 2010
acedia \uh-SEE-dee-uh\, noun: 1. Sloth. 2. Laziness or indifference in religious matters. His tales give the impression of a man cursed with an incurable disenchantment with life, a malady about midway between acedia and ennui. -- James Norman Hall, Under a thatched roof
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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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#1110
07-19-2010, 12:43 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, July 19, 2010
philogyny \fi-LOJ-uh-nee\, noun: Love of or liking for women (opposite of misogyny.) We will, therefore, draw a curtain over this scene, from that philogyny which is in us, and proceed to matters which, instead of dishonouring the human species, will greatly raise and ennoble it. -- Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great
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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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#1111
07-22-2010, 02:10 am
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 20, 2010
impedimenta \im-ped-uh-MEN-tuh\, noun: Baggage or other things that retard one's progress. With the ladies, therefore, matters soon assumed vivid and definite shape; they became clearly and irrefutably materialized; they stood stripped of all doubt and other impedimenta. -- Nikolaĭ Gogol, Dead Souls
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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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#1112
07-22-2010, 02:10 am
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 21, 2010
occlude \uh-KLOOD\, verb: 1. To shut in, out, or off. 2. Physical Chemistry. (Of certain metals and other solids) to incorporate (gases and other foreign substances), as by absorption or adsorption. 3. Dentistry. To shut or close, with the cusps of the opposing teeth of the upper and lower jaws fitting together. Were you afraid that this person would eclipse you, would occlude your very being, that your life would become the baby and nothing else, and that - and this is the most important thing - you wouldn't mind? -- Joanna Smith Rakoff, A fortunate age: a novel
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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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#1113
07-28-2010, 06:02 pm
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Word of the Day for Thursday, July 22, 2010
morganatic \mawr-guh-NAT-ik\, adjective: Of or pertaining to a form of marriage in which a person of high rank, as a member of the nobility, marries someone of lower station with the stipulation that neither the low-ranking spouse nor their children, if any, will have any claim to the titles or entailed property of the high-ranking partner. Plans for a morganatic marriage, for Mrs Simpson to become Duchess of Cornwall, came to nothing. It is a mark of how much has changed in the intervening three-quarters of a century that the British press maintained a loyal silence about the crisis until the last moment, though the King's affair with a married woman was common knowledge among the upper classes. -- Adam Sisman, "The Last Dance: 1936 by Denys Blakeway: review," The Telegraph, June, 2010.
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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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#1114
07-28-2010, 06:02 pm
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Word of the Day for Friday, July 23, 2010
fulgurate \FUHL-gyuh-reyt\, verb: 1. To flash or dart like lightning. 2. Medicine. To destroy (esp. an abnormal growth) by electricity. Their eyes fulgurate strangely. They have the look of executioners, or the look of eunuchs. -- Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
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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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#1115
07-28-2010, 06:03 pm
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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 24, 2010
zaftig \ZAHF-tik\, adjective: Full-bodied; well-proportioned. Rina's mom had been svelte, her dad had been fit and muscular, yet she'd managed to get the same zaftig genes as her mom's sister. -- Susan Lyons, She's on Top
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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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#1116
07-28-2010, 06:03 pm
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Word of the Day for Sunday, July 25, 2010
don \DON\, verb: 1. To put on or dress in. noun: 1. A Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name. 2. (In the Mafia) a head of a family or syndicate. For some inexpensive 3-D fun on a sunny day, have your child don the special glasses included with Optrix 3-D Bubbles to see holographic stars, hearts, butterflies, or lightning bolts on the bubbles she blows. -- Amy Kaldor-Bull, "Bubble toys that burst with fun," Kansas City Star, July 2010.
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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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#1117
07-28-2010, 06:03 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, July 26, 2010
potlatch \POT-lach\, noun: A ceremony at which gifts are bestowed on the guests in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass. On social media, the potlatch takes the form of outtweeting and outsharing the field, overloading the network with fragments of oneself as users seek a ranking. -- Rob Horning, "Gift Glut," Popmatters.com, May, 2010
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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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#1118
07-28-2010, 06:04 pm
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 27, 2010
nitid \NIT-id\, adjective: Bright; lustrous. Intolerably, I dreamt of an exiguous and nitid labyrinth: in the center was a water jar; my hands almost touched it, my eyes could see it, but so intricate and perplexed were the curves that I knew I would die before reaching it. -- Jorge Luis Borges, The Immortal
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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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#1119
07-28-2010, 06:04 pm
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 28, 2010
behemoth \bih-HEE-muhth\, noun: 1. Any creature or thing of monstrous size or power 2. An animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in the Book of Job. All the sportive rollickings of all the animals, from the agile fawn to the unwieldly behemoth, are dances taught them by nature. -- Ambrose Bierce, They All Dance
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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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#1120
07-30-2010, 05:32 pm
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Word of the Day for Thursday, July 29, 2010
busticate \BUHS-ti-keyt\, verb: To break into pieces. We all know that there is nothing so easy to macerate, percolate, absquatulate and totally busticate as the Ten Commandments. -- The Pharmaceutical Era (newspaper), 1908
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