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#1141
08-20-2010, 03:40 pm
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Word of the Day for Friday, August 20, 2010
vellicate \VEL-i-keyt\, verb: 1. To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements. 2. To irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear. 3. To move with spasmodic convulsions. Thus, if you vellicate the throat with a feather, nausea is produced; if you wound it with a penknife, pain is induced, but not sickness. -- Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Volume 1
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#1142
08-31-2010, 04:42 pm
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-Sorry I lost a day. :(
Word of the Day for Sunday, August 22, 2010 gormandize \GAWR-muhn-dahyz\, verb: To eat greedily or ravenously. I have never in my life seen men gormandize to be compared with those men. And the curious thing was that as course followed course their appetite seemed to increase. -- Frank Harris, John F. Gallagher, My Life and Loves
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#1143
08-31-2010, 04:43 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, August 23, 2010
distrain \dih-STREYN\, verb: 1. To seize the property of (a person) in order to compel payment of debts. 2. To levy a distress upon. He would be thinking of her as a Fury coming to carry him off, or even as a tipstaff with warrant to distrain. Yet it was not she, but Love, that was the bailiff. -- Samuel Beckett, Murphy
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#1144
08-31-2010, 04:43 pm
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, August 24, 2010
lupine \LOO-pahyn\, adjective: 1. Savage; ravenous; predatory. 2. Pertaining to or resembling the wolf. noun: 1. Any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family. He has a lupine, dare-all energy to his performance; lying fires him. -- J. Tatham, "There Will Be Blood - A Review," Movie Waffle (blog), March 2008.
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#1145
08-31-2010, 04:44 pm
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, August 25, 2010
galore \guh-LOHR\, adjective: In abundance; in plentiful amounts. We're talking mountains and volcanoes galore covered by green energy. The entire system was represented and it looked glorious. -- Mali Elfman, "Comic-Con 2010 Green Lantern Footage First Look," Screencrave.com, July, 2010.
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#1146
08-31-2010, 04:44 pm
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Word of the Day for Thursday, August 26, 2010
orthoepy \awr-THOH-uh-pee\, noun: 1. The study of correct pronunciation. 2. The study of the relationship between the pronunciation of words and their orthography. Another etymology, still more ancient, and sanctioned by the countenance of our ever to be-lamented Dutch ancestors, is that found in certain letters still extant, which passed between the early governors and their neighboring powers, wherein it is called indifferently Monhattoes, Munhatos, and Manhattoes, which are evidently unimportant variations of the same name; for our wise forefathers set little store by those niceties either in orthography or orthoepy, which form the sole study and ambition of many learned men and women of this hypercritical age. -- Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York
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#1147
08-31-2010, 04:45 pm
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Word of the Day for Friday, August 27, 2010
schlep \SHLEP\, verb: 1. To move slowly, awkwardly, or tediously. 2. To carry; lug. "She's definitely worth the wait, the schlep uptown, and I happen to approve of her politics." -- Wendy Wasserstein, Elements of Style
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#1148
08-31-2010, 04:46 pm
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Word of the Day for Saturday, August 28, 2010
couchant \KOU-chuhnt\, adjective: 1. Lying down; crouching; reclining. 2. Heraldry . (Of an animal) represented as lying on its stomach with its hind legs and forelegs pointed forward. Winding through a noble valley, we presently came to Bello's palace, couchant and bristling in a grove. -- Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
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#1149
08-31-2010, 04:46 pm
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Word of the Day for Sunday, August 29, 2010
kith \KITH\, noun: Acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like; persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group. Charles 0. Brockway is unquestionably the foremost forger of America and the equal of any of his kith across the water. -- De Francias Folsom, Our police: A history of the Baltimore force
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#1150
08-31-2010, 04:47 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, August 30, 2010
shena****n \shuh-NAN-i-guhn\, noun: 1. Mischief; prankishness. 2. Remarks intended to deceive; deceit. Often used in the plural. For his latest shena****n, he had been sentenced to three days in the boiler room. -- Jim Holland, Escaping the Underground
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#1151
08-31-2010, 04:47 pm
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, August 31, 2010
beek \BEEK\, verb: 1. To bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fire. 2. (Of wood) to season by exposure to heat. "Galen, you and the lads go beek yourselves by fireside." -- Deborah MacGillivray, One Snowy Knight
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#1152
09-04-2010, 07:10 pm
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 1, 2010
anacoluthia \an-uh-kuh-LOO-thee-uh\, noun: Lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, esp. in a sentence. At one time or another, we have all suffered through those unappealable debates in which a lady, with copious interjections and anacoluthia, swears that the word "luna" is more (or less) expressive than the word "moon." -- Jorge Luis Borges, Emir RodrÃÂÂ*guez Monegal, Alastair Reid, Borges, a reader: a selection from the writings of Jorge Luis Borges
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#1153
09-04-2010, 07:11 pm
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Word of the Day for Thursday, September 2, 2010
bilocation \bahy-loh-KEY-shuhn\, noun: The state of being or the ability to be in two places at the same time. If it could be bought, I'd gladly spend my whole inheritance on the power of bilocation. As it is, I have to settle for the odd morning when I half awake in two places - head in London, say, body in Los Angeles. -- Robert Cremins, A sort of homecoming
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#1154
09-04-2010, 07:12 pm
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Word of the Day for Friday, September 3, 2010
cachinnate \KAK-uh-neyt\, verb: To laugh loudly or immoderately. His long nose, thick lips and crafty, bulging eyes seemed tense with the urge to cachinnate. -- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley, The Steppe and Other Stories
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#1155
09-04-2010, 07:13 pm
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Word of the Day for Saturday, September 4, 2010
degage \dey-gah-ZHEY\, adjective: 1. Unconstrained; easy, as in manner or style. 2. Without emotional involvement; detached. Support even comes from Psi Section, a colony degage and docile, with no secular aspirations at all. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
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#1156
09-07-2010, 06:42 pm
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Word of the Day for Sunday, September 5, 2010
zetetic \zeh-TEH-tic\, adjective: Proceeding by inquiry; investigating It was not dogmatic and scholastic, but zetetic and critical: it did not seek to lay down and inculcate ready-made philosophical doctrine, but to afford direction to investigation and independent thought. -- Friedrich Paulsen, James Edwin Creighton, Albert Lefevre, Immanuel Kant, his life and doctrine
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#1157
09-07-2010, 06:43 pm
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Word of the Day for Monday, September 6, 2010
rubric \ROO-brik\, noun: 1. A title, heading, or the like, written or printed in red or otherwise distinguished from the rest of the text. 2. A direction for the conduct of divine service. 3. Any established mode of conduct or procedure. In our office, we have a file of rubrics The New Yorker has used in its eighty-five-year history-Annals of Exploration, Letter from Saigon, Yachts and Yachtsmen. It can be a helpful list. -- Amy Davidson, "About a Nutshell," Close Read blog, The New Yorker, August 2010.
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#1158
09-07-2010, 06:44 pm
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Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 7, 2010
kenspeckle \KEN-spek-uhl\, adjective: Conspicuous; easily seen or recognized. He feared that he was too kenspeckle to escape. -- Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Stickit Minister: And Some Common Men
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#1159
09-10-2010, 10:18 am
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Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 8, 2010
gerrymander \JER-i-man-der\, verb: The dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible. To appease aggravated fan bases, the league will gerrymander the early non-divisional, non-crossover scheduling to allow Wisconsin to play both Nebraska and Iowa in 2011 and 2012. -- Scott Dochterman, "Final guesses on Big Ten divisional realignment," Doc's Office blog, gazetteonline.com, September 2010.
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#1160
09-10-2010, 10:19 am
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Word of the Day for Thursday, September 9, 2010
jubilee \JOO-buh-lee\, noun: 1. Any season or occasion of rejoicing or festivity. 2. The celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee), fiftieth (golden jubilee), or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee). 3. The completion of 50 years of existence, activity, or the like, or its celebration. 4. A yearlong period to be observed by Jews once every 50 years, during which Jewish slaves were to be freed abd alienated lands were to be restored to the original owner. The day before the Jubilee the children in the chorus marched all the way downtown to the city hall auditorium where the Jubilee was to be held. -- John Oliver Killens, Youngblood
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