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Post by Halethala on Apr 2, 2007 13:30:16 GMT -5
How they stick in your head sometimes. I've a feeling I'm not the only one who loves words, loves learning new words, loves the sound and "feel" of them rolling off your tongue . . *grins*
If you'd like to join me, add one of your own, or adopt mine into your vocabulary . .
Today's has been: Nonplussed ~ a state of confusion or bewilderment. It is also a neologism meaning unimpressed
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Post by Dream Loxley on Apr 3, 2007 8:26:38 GMT -5
*Chuckles* I really like that word............. will try and use it *hug
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Post by Halethala on Apr 3, 2007 8:39:59 GMT -5
*grins* Have fun with it!
I woke up with the word Innocuous today . . not a new word (most of these won't be) that means: producing no injury : HARMLESS
2 : not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility : INOFFENSIVE, INSIPID
Certainly not my weather today!
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Post by Lady Edfeil on Apr 3, 2007 13:15:57 GMT -5
*chuckles* I'll try to use it in a sentence today.
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Post by Halethala on Apr 4, 2007 16:22:57 GMT -5
*grins* I should use the word Patience today . . but I think perhaps, instead ~ Panygryze: to eulogize, praise (it worked so perfectly in a poem once . . *smiles a little* nudging me up into an honorable mention)
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Post by Dream Loxley on Apr 5, 2007 2:04:49 GMT -5
*chuckles* How we all need Patience at times.......I admit I have never heard of Panygryze, but its a nice one, kindly too.
I have another P for you........ Procrastinate - Postpone action. (Procrastination; dilly dally, stall, play for time, be dilatory.)
Dad used to say the following, although I think its a deviation of the original!
Never put off until tommorow, that which you can do today...... because if you do it today and you like it...........then you can do it again tommorow!! *LOL* I tend to agree with him there.
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Post by Halethala on Apr 5, 2007 6:46:40 GMT -5
*Laughs!* Oh I do like that divagate! ((hehe, which was actually going to be my word for today!)) A good philosophy to adopt . . your father's, that is, not the habit of divigating! *grins*
Divagate ~ to wander or stray from the subject. Actually, it's often a pleasant path, to divagate sometimes . .
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Post by Lady Edfeil on Apr 9, 2007 12:24:46 GMT -5
Ouch... two of my favorite bad habits, to divagate and to procrastinate. I love this thread btw... and I learn a new word more than once.
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Post by Halethala on Apr 10, 2007 9:05:40 GMT -5
 Words are such a gift . . I had thought to post a word I made up: Raffed (an action verb, meaning something akin to ardent) . . but will settle instead on Alembic: The word "alembic" has taken on a metaphorical meaning - anything that refines or transmutes, as if by distillation - as in "the alembic of creative thought."
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Post by ~Eiluna~ on Apr 13, 2007 2:35:46 GMT -5
This one was sent to me in an email today, and I had to share it... mostly because it is from close to the Medieval time period, judging by the example they use...
This week's theme: Words that seem risque.
cockshut (KOK-shut) noun
Evening; twilight.
[Apparently from the time when poultry is shut in to rest.]
-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
"Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,
Much about cockshut time, from troop to troop
Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers."
William Shakespeare; The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; 1592-93. |
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Post by Halethala on Apr 14, 2007 10:43:57 GMT -5
*grins* that does have a rather risque sound to it. There used to be a line of farm tractors that had that name as well, believe it or not!
I'm rather blank today for now . .
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Post by Dream Loxley on Apr 22, 2007 1:18:29 GMT -5
*Chuckles as a little risque now and then is good for you!*
I thought the word today could be Marathon as the London Marathon is being run today, by all kinds of people and for all kinds of reasons........my best wishes are with them all, and what an achievement!
1. A long-distance running race, usually of 26 miles 385 yards (42ยท195 km). Also: a race of this length in swimming, etc. Freq. attrib. (esp. in marathon race, run).
2. Any long-distance race, competition, or event calling for endurance, esp. one undertaken in order to raise money or publicize a cause.
3. In extended use: an event or activity of especially long duration, or indulged in to excess. Freq. attrib.
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Post by Halethala on May 16, 2007 11:39:29 GMT -5
Heh . . I've had a marathon of empty thoughts lately, I think!
Hmmm . . how about: Cajole ~ to nudge or encourage, wheedle, persuade, sweet talk, entice, coax, inveigle . . .
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Post by Dream Loxley on May 24, 2007 4:00:55 GMT -5
In light of the difficulties many are experiencing lately..... along with cajole, perhaps the following is rather apt.  Persevere..... to try to do or continue doing something in a determined way, despite having problems |
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Post by Halethala on Sept 24, 2007 13:07:00 GMT -5
Good grief . . I had an odd word running through my head all morning, but upon looking it up, was a bit taken aback! *red faced*
Umm . . "micturate" . . no idea why it was stuck in my head! *laughs* (btw, it means "urinate" or to "want to urinate" . . . too nice a word for such a meaning!!
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Words are such a gift . . 
