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2006-09-27T13:24:00.000-05:00

Brennon Sullivan

Fulsome
1. Found in the Billings Gazette, Montana news paper
2. Offensive to taste or senses, Insincere
3. Adj.
4. none
5. Middle English
6. The lunch served yesterday was very fulsome.

Ostensible
1. News week column
2. Represented or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so
3. Adj.
4. none
5. Medieval Latin, from verb ostendere
6. Gas price seem to be ostensible.

Munificent
1. msn.com
2. Very liberal in giving or bestowing; very generous, lavish
3. Adj.
4. none
5. Latin munificus, means generous bountiful
6. Some politicians are very munificent.

Autodidact
1. forward email
2. One who is self-taught
3. noun
4. none
5. Greek from the word autodidactos
6. When it comes to playing guitar I am autodidact.

Evanescent
1. Flipping through the dictionary
2. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; fleeting
3. Adj.
4. none
5. Latin evanescere
6. Ghost are supposedly evanescent.

2006-09-27T10:34:00.000-05:00

Hullabaloo
1. What is all of the hullabaloo I hear?
2. a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar.
3. noun
4. plural
5. Origin: 1750–60; appar. var. of haloobaloo, rhyming compound based on Scots baloo lullaby
6. I like making a big hullabaloo.

Sanctity
1. What do you know about sanctiy and hypocrisy?
2. holiness, saintliness, or godliness.
3. noun
4. Plural
5. Origin: 1350–1400
6. Are you sure about your own sanctity?

Carp
1. All you do is carp about everything.
2. to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing
3. verb
4. N/A
5. Origin: 1200–50; ME carpen to speak, prate
6. I like to carp when I'm unsatisfied.

Quarry
1. Dont fall in the quarry!
2. an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
3. noun, verb
4. plural
5. Origin: 1375–1425; ME quarey
6. Have you ever seen a quarry of snakes?

Vicarious
1. Do you ever find yourself in a vicarious place?
2. performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
3. adjective
4. N/A
5. Origin: 1630–40;
6. I sometimes think that you are in a vicarious state of mind.

2006-09-27T10:29:00.001-05:00

Savvy
- "But todays small farmer must be able to combine savvy business and marketing techniques to thrive."
- adj.
- means: shrewdly informed; experienced and well informed; canny
- origin: 1775-85; Latin
- -vied, - vy, -ing, -vier, -viest
- The man had a savvy way of acomplishing things he set out to do.

Honed
- " Salem Five changed its online name and honed its focus to New England, where the bank already had a good reputation to build on.
- verb.
- means: to make more acute or effective; improve; perfect
- origin: 950 ME (middle english)
- root word: hone
- -er, -ing, -es
- While hunting the hunters honed their sights on the unsuspecting deer.

Behemoth
- "Although the DVD rental market is dominated by behemoth Blockbuster, Reed Hastings knew that there just had to be a better way."
- adj.
- means: any creature or thing of monstrous size
- origin: 1350-1400 Hebrew
- As the behemoth bear stood up on its hind legs, I began to feel shorter and shorter.

Allure
- "For some, the endless variety of tasks and challenges is the fundamental allure
- noun
- means: fascination; charm; appeal
-origin: 1375-1425 late ME
- -er, -ed, -ing
- The pure allure of toy, amused the child for hours.

Pompus
- "He had a pompus attitude that just made me dislike him all the more"
- adj.
- means: characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity.
- origin: 1325-75 ME
- -ly, -ness, -ity,
- She pompusly stated that she was better then all the rest of the players on the team.

2006-09-27T10:29:00.000-05:00

Tetchy
1.My little sister was being tetchy
2.Peevish, testy, irratable
3.Adj.
4.none
5.Middle English tecche, Old French tache
6.Gnats are very tetchy

ensued
1.The game was ensued between the two teams.
2.To follow as a consequence or result
3.verb
4.en·sued, en·su·ing, en·sues
5.Old English
6.They ensued the storm.

Jilted
1. The man didn't want to be jilted by his girlfriend.
2. to decieve or drop a lover
3. noun
4. Middle English
5. ed, ing
6. The woman was jilted at the begingin of the wedding.

parameter
1. I think I learned about parameters last year in math.
2. one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations
3. noun
4. -s
5. n/a
6. The teacher told me to learn the parameters of the equation.

Solace
1 The football player found solace in the locker room after the tough loss.
2 To comfort or cheer in grief or affliction; to console.
3Transitive Verb
4 n/a
5 Solace comes from Latin solacium, from solari, "to comfort; to console."
6 The family gatherings was my solace after a death in the family.

2006-09-27T10:28:00.000-05:00

Crepuscular is a good one; I used it in my last novel, and I've seen it used in two other books.http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?p=302284
crepuscular
adj
1. Relating to or like twilight; dim.
2. Denoting animals that are active before sunrise or at dusk, eg bats, rabbits, deer.
Etymology: 17c: from Latin crepusculum twilight
http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=0&Keyword=Crepuscular&goquery=Find+it%21&Language=ENG&NLD=1&FRA=1&DEU=1&ITA=1&ESP=1&v=80088776
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/subject/Allusions
allusion
noun
1. Any indirect reference to something else.
Thesaurus: intimation, reference, mention, hint, inference, implication, insinuation, connotation, denotation, innuendo, suggestion, citation.
2a. literary theory.
A reference, either explicit or veiled, to something else which an author uses deliberately, aware that only readers who are ‘in the know' will understand it;
2b. literary theory.
Such devices thought of collectively
Example: ‘The Waste Land' is full of erudite allusion.
Etymology: 16c: from Latin allusio, from alludere to play with.
http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=0&Keyword=Allusion&Language=ENG&NLD=1&FRA=1&DEU=1&ITA=1&ESP=1&v=80088776
For example, tendentious is a PAW because it could be substituted with biased with no loss of meaning.
http://www.pompousasswords.com/
tendentious
adj
1. Characterized by a particular bias, tendency or underlying purpose.
Derivative: tendentiously adverb
Derivative: tendentiousness noun
http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=0&Keyword=tendentious&goquery=Find+it%21&Language=ENG&NLD=1&FRA=1&DEU=1&ITA=1&ESP=1&v=80088776
Bud and Miller have been in a micturating match for a while now.
http://www.pompousasswords.com/micturate
verb

intrmicturated, micturating
1. formal To urinate.
Derivative: micturition
noun
The act of urinating.
Etymology: 19c: from Latin micturire to wish to urinate, from mingere to urinate.
http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=0&Keyword=micturate&goquery=Find+it%21&Language=ENG&NLD=1&FRA=1&DEU=1&ITA=1&ESP=1&v=80088776
Name recognition is the great desideratum of a nascent restaurant chain http://www.pompousasswords.com/
desideratum
noun
desiderata
1. formal
Something much wanted or required.
Thesaurus: want, aspiration, wish, aim, goal, objective, purpose, hope, desire, ideal, dream.
Etymology: 17c: from Latin desiderare, desideratum to long for http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=0&Keyword=desideratum&goquery=Find+it%21&Language=ENG&NLD=1&FRA=1&DEU=1&ITA=1&ESP=1&v=80088776

2006-09-27T10:27:00.001-05:00

Ambivert-
1)a person having characteristics of both extrovert and introvert
2)noun
3)ambi
4)etmology: unknown
5)Haryy is am ambivert who works well with groups of people but is also comfortable being alone

exult-
1. I was exulted to say the less.
2.Rejoice, be very happy
3.Verb
4.-ed, -s, -ing
5.From Latin exsultare, frequentative of exsilire ‘jump up’, from ex- + salire ‘jump, leap’.
6.I exulted when I won the bike.

ensued
1.A fight ensued between the boxers.
2.To follow as a consequence or result
3.verb
4.en·sued, en·su·ing, en·sues
5.Old English
6.They ensued the game of monopoly.

inflicted
1. The knife inflicted pain as it entered the body.
2.To deal or mete out (something punishing or burdensome)
3.verb
4.in·flict·ed, in·flict·ing, in·flicts
5.latin
6.He looked like it inflicted pain when he hit the wall.

2006-09-27T10:27:00.000-05:00

Coroner
1. The coroner investigated the murder.
2. an officer, as of a county or municipality
3. noun
4. Anglo-Norman
5. no prefex or suffix
6. They had to bring in a coroner to finish the investigation

2006-09-27T10:25:00.000-05:00

Innate
1. N/A
2. existing in one from birth
3. adjective
4. suffix - ly -ness
5. [Origin: 1375-1425; late ME < L inn¨¡tus inborn, ptp. of inn¨¡sc¨© to be born, arise, equiv.
6. I am innate to my mother

Eudaimonia
1. the highest human good is eudaimonia
2. a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
3. noun
4. none
5. Greek eu + daimon 'happiness' or 'flourishing'
6. I want a relationship with eudaimonia

Irksome
1. if he finds it irksome he is intemperate
2. annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome
3. adjective
4. suffix -ly -ness
5. Origin: 1400-50; late ME;
6. I find it very irksome when people ignore me intentionally

Intemperate
1. if he finds it irksome he is intemperate
2. given to or characterized by excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages
3. adjective
4. suffix -ly -ness
5. Origin: 1400-50; late ME < L intemper¨¡tus.
6. many people at bars are intemperate

Autonomy
1. N/A
2. independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions:
3. noun
4. suffix -mies -ist
5. Origin: 1615-25; < Gk autonom¨ªa independence
6. the USA is a country of autonomy

2006-09-27T10:24:00.000-05:00

Fulsome:
1: offensive to good taste, esp. as being excessive; overdone or gross
2: Adjective
3: Origin: 1200–50; ME
4: The woman looked fulsome wearing orange and pink.

Opprobium
1: the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
2: Noun
3: Origin: 1650–60
4: The mans actions at the fair would be considered more then opprobium.

Aerobe
1: an organism, esp. a bacterium, that requires air or free oxygen for life
2: Noun
3: Origin: 1875–80
4: The aerobe could not survive without the oxygen

Avast
1: Used as a command to stop or desist
2: verb
3: Origin: 1675–85; perh
4: The mans action would not be avast

Gaudy
1: brilliantly or excessively showy
2: adjective
3: Origin: 1520–30
4: The football superstar was more then gaudy in how he carried himself.

2006-09-27T10:22:00.000-05:00

Sources from Etymonlin.com

baccalaureate
1625, "university degree of a bachelor," from M.L. baccalaureus "student with the first degree," altered by a play on words with bacca lauri "laurel berry" (laurels being awarded for academic success). The M.L. word perhaps ultimately is derived from L. baculum "staff" (see bacillus), which the young student might carry, but it is more likely just a Latinization of bachelor (q.v.) in its academic sense. In modern U.S. usage, the word usually is short for baccalaureate-sermon (1864), a religious farewell address to the graduating class.

Sentence: “I want to obtain my baccalaureate degree in Computer Science.”

gabardine
"fine worsted cloth," 1904, earlier gaberdine "long, coarse outer garment" (1520), from Sp. gabardina, from M.Fr. galverdine, which is perhaps from M.H.G. wallevart "pilgrimage," in the sense of "pilgrim's cloak." The Sp. form perhaps infl. by gabán "overcoat" and tabardina "coarse coat."

Sentence: “Grab your gabardine and lets go!!!”

jacinth
c.1230, an ancient blue gem (probably sapphire), from O.Fr. iacinte, from L. hyacinthus (see hyacinth). In modern use, a reddish-orange gem.

Sentence: “Hey man, where’d that jacinth go?”

-phagous
comb. form meaning "eating, feeding on," from Gk. -phagos "eater of," from phagein "to eat," lit. "to have a share of food," from PIE base *bhag- "to share out, apportion, to get a share" (cf. Skt. bhajati "assigns, allots, apportions, enjoys, loves," bhaksati "eats, drinks, enjoys," O.C.S. bogatu "rich").

Sentence: “The phagous animal joined in”

zaftig
"alluringly plump, curvaceous, buxom," 1937, from Yiddish zaftik, lit. "juicy," from zaft "juice," from M.H.G. saft "juice" (see sap (n.1)).

Sentence: “That steak sure is zaftig!”

2006-09-27T10:04:00.002-05:00

antiseptic
1. My soap is an antiseptic.
2. free from or cleaned of germs and other microorganisms
3. noun, adjective
4. -ally
5. 1751, coined from Gk. anti- "against" + sepsis "putrefaction."
6. Rubbing alcohol is an antiseptic.

portfolio
1. In Fundamentals of Business we talk about stock portfolios.
2. the total holdings of the securities, commercial paper, etc., of a financial institution or private investor
3. noun
4. -s
5. 1722, from It. portafoglio "a case for carrying loose papers," from porta, imperative of portare "to carry" (see port (1)) + foglio "sheet, leaf," from L. folium (see folio). Meaning "collection of securities held" is from 1930.

remittance
1. Please return this attachment with remittance.
2. money or its equivalent sent from one place to another
3. noun
4. remit
5. remit: c.1375, from L. remittere "send back, slacken, let go, abate," from re- "back" + mittere "to send" (see mission). Meaning "send money to someone" first recorded 1640
6. I need to send my cable bill with remittance to Midcontinent's office.

inquiries
1. billing inquiries
2. A close examination of a matter in a search for information or truth
3. noun
4. enquiry or inquiry- singular
5. none
6. I filed an inquiry about the last shipment.

balsamic
1. balsamic vinegar
2. Restorative; curative
3. adjective
4. balsam, balsamy, balsamaceous
5. balsam- 1579, "aromatic resin used for healing wounds and soothing pains," from L. balsamum (see balm). There is an isolated O.E. reference from c.1000. As a type of flowering plant of the Impatiens family, it is attested from 1741. Balsamic is from 1605.
6. I use balsamic vinegar when I cook.

2006-09-27T10:04:00.001-05:00

fulsome- Context- Fulsome. Original Sentence- He recorded the event in his journal: "Long evening visit from Mr. Langtree--a fulsome flatterer." Defenition- 1. Offensive to the taste or sensibilities.2. Insincere or excessively lavish; especially, offensive from excess of praise. Part of speech- adjective. Root- Full + some. Etymology- Middle English
ostensible- Context- Ostensible. Orignal Sentence- The credibility of the energy-trading sector has been severely damaged by disclosures of sham transactions in energy trading, designed to build up ostensible sales and profits and therefore share prices of the trading companies. Defenition- Represented or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so. Part of speech- adjective: Root- ostensibilis. Etymology- Medieval Latin
fiat- Context- Fiat. Original Sentence- he abolished them and ruled these faculty meetings by fiat, using each as an occasion to announce what he was going to do next that was sure to stir up even more resentment. Defenition- An arbitrary or authoritative command or order. Part of speech- noun: Root- fieri Etymology- Latin
dapple- Context- dapple. Original Sentence- Gentle shafts of sunlight . . . dapple the grass. Defenition- A small contrasting spot or blotch. Part of speech- noun: Root- depill. Etymology- Old Norse.
palindrome - Context- Palindrome. Original Sentence- Madam, I'm Adam. (Adam's first words to Eve?). Defenition- A word, phrase, sentence, or verse that reads the same backward or forward. Part of speech- noun. Root- palindromos. Etymology- Greek

2006-09-27T10:04:00.000-05:00

Cascade
1.Cascading Style Sheets are for general rules.
2.

-To fall in a cascade.
-(archaic) (slang) To vomit.

3.Verb
4.-ing, -ed
5.French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare to fall
6. That's so gross, I think I'm gonna cascade.

Dynamic

1. We will be creating dynamic web sites.
2.Changeable; fluid; not steady; in motion.

(computing) Able to change

(music) Having to do with the volume of sound.

3. Adjective
4.n/a
5.1817, as a term in philosophy; 1827 in the sense "force producing motion," from Fr. dynamique (1762), from Ger. dynamisch, introduced by Leibnitz 1691 from Gk. dynamikos "powerful," from dynamis "power," from dynasthai "be able to have power," of unknown origin. The fig. sense of "active, potent, energetic" is from 1856. Dynamics as a branch of physics was in use from 1788
6.That guy is so dynamic.

Debug
1.This program was debugged before use
2.To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from somewhere

To search for, and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program

(US) To remove insects from somewhere

3.verb
4.-ed, -ing
5.n/a
6.Before I can use the program stably I should debug it.

recoil
1. When hit it jumps back as if it recoiled.
2.to pull back
3.verb
4.-ed, -ing
5.c.1225, "force back," from O.Fr. reculer "to go back, recede, retreat," from V.L. *reculare, from L. re- "back" + culus "backside." Meaning "shrink back" is first recorded 1513, and that of "spring back" (as a gun) in 1530. The noun is attested from c.1330.
6.Once I saw her ugly face I recoiled.

accentuate
1.Every person from this area accentuates closely.
2.(transitive) To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

(transitive) To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.

(transitive) To mark with a written accent.

3.verb
4.-ed, -ing
5.From medieval Latin accentuatus, past participle of accentuare, from accentus.

6.I accentuated my voice to a midwest tone.

2006-09-26T20:23:00.000-05:00

Abundance

1.The mushrooms looked similar to the edible ones that grow in abundance in Southeast Asia
2.A great or plentiful amount
3.Noun
4.Abundant
5.Abundantia: copiousness, plenteousness
6.They were overwhelmed by the abundance of money they saw.

Conquest

1. The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America
2. The act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment
3. Noun
4. Conquested
5. conquēsta: subjugation, defeat, mastery
6. The travelers started on their conquest to the village.

Hysteria

1.The hysteria spread to Congress and led to the unambiguously titled Chinese Exclusion
2.an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
3.Noun
4.n/a
5.Hysteric
6.Hysteria broke out in the croud when the back came on stage.

Quota

1.The act was repealed and the Chinese were assigned an annual quota of 105 immigrants
2.A proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment.
3.Noun
4.Quotas
5.Medieval Latin, from Latin quota pars how great a part
6.The family was greatful when they school gave them a quota of food.

Assimilate

1.These immigrants are refusing to learn English or otherwise assimilate.
2.To take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb
3.Noun
4.Lat‧ed, -lat‧ing
5.Middle English assimilaten, from Latin assimilre
6. The kids didn't want to do homework or assimilate it.

2006-09-26T10:24:00.000-05:00

ostensible-

1)Represented or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
2)adjective
3)
4)French, from Medieval Latin ostnsibilis, from Latin ostnsus, past participle of
ostendere, to show : ob-, ob- + tendere, to stretch; see ten- in Indo-European
Roots
5)We might define play as pleasurable activity in which the means is more important
than the ostensible end.

sine qua non-

1)An essential condition or element; an indispensable thing.
2)noun
3)
4)Latin
5)However we choose to define a classic, a sine qua non is that the material lend
itself to reinterpretation in the light of changing circumstances.

hubris-

1)Overbearing pride or presumption.
2)noun
3)hubris
4)Greek, excessive pride, wanton violence. See ud- in Indo-European Roots
5)With dizzying hubris, Shelley elevated the vocation of the poet above that of
priest and statesman

bibulous-

1)Of, pertaining to, marked by, or given to the consumption of alcoholic drink.
2)adjective
3)bibulous
4)From Latin bibulus, from bibere, to drink. See p(i)- in Indo-European Roots
5)Ever since the joys of the fermented grape were discovered, the bibulous have been
waking up feeling the worse for wear.

putsch-

1)(Sometimes capitalized) A secretly planned and suddenly executed attempt to
overthrow a government.
2)noun
3)putsch
4)Putsch comes from German, from Middle High German, literally, "thrust."
5)Hitler operated from Munich where he enjoyed a fair degree of support, and it was
here that his Putsch took place in an effort to seize power in Bavaria.

2006-09-25T15:38:00.000-05:00

Aesthetic
1. foods.com
2. concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
3. adjective
4. aesthete
5. Germany
6. I am suppose to have aesthetic taste in decorating.

Mannequins
1. Bravo
2. A. A life-size full or partial representation of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes; a dummy. B. A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery. Also called lay figure. C. One who models clothes; a model.
3. noun
4. mannequin
5. England
6. On the TV show last night, I saw the designers use mannequins to hold up their costumes.

Ormolu
1. history channel
2. gold or gold powder used in the gilds
3. noun
4. none
5. France
6. In the story of the twin cities, the gild was used.

Tatami
1. HGTV
2. (in Japanese houses) any of a number of thick, woven straw mats of uniform dimensions, about three feet by six feet (91 cm by 183 cm), the placing of which determines the dimensions of an interior
3. noun
4. none
5. Japan
6. Houses in Japan are made from this style today to last in their kind of weather.

Charcuterie
1. Food channel
2. a store where pork products, as hams, sausages, and pâtés are sold
3. noun
4. none
5. French
6. Going through the grocery store, there are sections of different foods and the charcuterie is one of them.

2006-09-24T17:34:00.000-05:00

Vertiginous
1) But up close the building is impossibly steep, vertiginous, hostile.
2) Definition: Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
3) Part of Speech: Adjective
4) n/a
5) Vertiginous derives from Latin vertigo, "a turning round, a whirling round; giddiness," from vertere, "to turn."
6) The mountain had vertiginous cliffs all around it.

Stanch
1) Out of the corner of my eye I can see one of Shiggy's daughters busy at the rear door with a mop and a mountain of napkins, furious activity, but not enough to stanch the flow of water seeping inexorably into the room.
2) Definition: To stop the flowing of; to check in its course
3) Part of Speech: Transitive Verb
4) n/a
5) Stanch is from Old French estancher, "to stop a liquid from flowing."
6) I couldn't stanch the water from coming out of the pool.

Solace
1) Surrounded by unhappiness at home, John Sr. early on found solace and certainty in the realm of science and technology.
2) To comfort or cheer in grief or affliction; to console.
3) Transitive Verb
4) n/a
5) Solace comes from Latin solacium, from solari, "to comfort; to console."
6) I soon found solace after the funeral.

Riparian
1) "A steady stream of brilliant American intellectuals visiting me in the riparian solitude of a beautifully reflected sunset."
2) Of or pertaining to the bank of a river or stream.
3) Adjective
4) n/a
5) Riparian is from the Latin, ripari-us + -an, from Latin ripa, the bank of a river.
6) We were fishing near the riparian of the lake.

Cataract
1) Niagara is no virgin. Today, its cataract can be stopped with the pull of a lever, and less than half its natural flow pours over the precipice.
2) A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
3) Noun
4) n/a
5) Cataract is from Latin cataracta, "a waterfall, a portcullis," from Greek kataraktes, katarrhaktes, from katarassein, "to dash down," from kata-, "down" + arassein, "to strike, dash."
6) When the storm hit we could not stop the great cataract on the dam.

2006-09-13T13:35:00.000-05:00

Pang
1.) Colbert Report
2.) A brief piercing spasm of pain
3.) noun
4.) root word unknown
5.) Origin unknown
6.) A pang of jealousy struck me.

Incrust
1.) Dictionary
2.) To cover, line, or overlay with or as if with a crus
t3.) Transitive verb
4.) Incruster
5.) French
6.) Every sentence you encrust in your shell is a sentence too many.

Chamfered
1.) Tomorrow’s Technician
2.) To cut a furrow in (as a column)
3.) Transitive verb
4.) Chanfreint
5.) Middle French
6.) The carpenter chamfered the drawer face edges before he installed it.

Desiccant
1.) Colbert Report
2.) A substance, such as calcium oxide or silica gel, that has a high affinity for water and is used as a drying agent.
3.) Noun
4.) Desiccate
5.) Latin
6.) The desiccant absorbed any water left in the A/C system

Deshoeitated
1.) Online Dictionary
2.) When one's foot is chopped off
3.) Transitive Verb
4.) Root word unknown
5.) Entomology unknown
6.) Mrs. Solmon deshoeitated me for touching something on the prop table.

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Erudite
1. Dictionary.com word of the week erudite
2. Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge
3. Adj
4.none
5.Latin comes from word eruditus
6. Thanks to that book I am very erudite about motorcylcles

Tetchy
1.Ma said I was being very tetchy
2.Peevish, testy, irratable
3.Adj.
4.none
5.Middle English tecche, Old French tache
6.The bugs around here are very tetchy

Suasion
1.Don't be using your suasion on me
2.Act of persuading, persuasion
3.noun
4.none
5.Latin suasio, present in a pleasing matter
6.I will try and use my suasion to get her to come

Surceased
1.The raid surceased almost immidieatly
2.Cessation, Stop, End
3.noun
4.surcease
5.Old French sursis
6.We have to surcease and go back now.

Arcane
1.The plan is very arcane
2.Understood or known by only a few
3.Adj
4.none
5.Latin arcanus
6.My friend and I laughed at our arcane joke.

2006-09-13T12:33:00.000-05:00

Footboy
1. from TV
2. noun
3. a boy in livery employment as a servant or page
4. none
5. origin comes from footman
6. There was a foot boy at the Missionary's stables.

Tarragon
1. Found it in my On Cooking book
2. noun
3. an aromatic Eurasian herb having linear to lance – shape leaves and small, whitish-green flower heads arranged in loose, spreading panicles. Leaves are used as a seasoning
4. none
5. comes from Arabic, perhaps greek
6. We are using terragon in my Food Preparations class.

Oba
1. a magazine
2. noun
3. a hereditary chief or king among various peoples of Benin and Nigeria
4. none
5. origin is from Africa
6. One of my friends came from an African civilization that has a Oba.

Ham it up
1. drama class
2. verb
3. exaggerate one’s acting
4. none
5. England
6. When expressing a certain attitude in acting, one had to ham it up to get it across.

Augur
1. In one of my reading books
2. noun
3. one of the group of ancient Roman religious officials who foretold events by observing and
interpreting signs and omens; a seer or prophet; a soothsayer
4. none
5. middle english
6. The Augur took full blaim for not telling the story right.

2006-09-13T10:42:00.000-05:00

Gauche-
1)lacking social experience or grace; not tactful: crudely made or done
2)adjective
3)Rootword:gaucheness suffix: -ness
4)French, litterally left
5)Some people never seem to say the right thing - they make gauche remarks.

Sinister-
1)Singularly evil or productive of evil
2)adjective
3)rootword: sin
4)middle english sinister, from Anglo-French senestre, from latin sinistr-
5)Even when disquised as an innocent old lady, the wicked witch appeared sinister
when she gqave snow white the apple.

Ambivert-
1)a person having characteristics of both extrovert and introvert
2)noun
3)ambi
4)etmology: unknown
5)Haryy is am ambivert who works well with groups of people but is also
comfortable being alone

Gamos-
1)characterized by having or practicing (such) a marriage or marriages
2) adj combining form
3)gamos
4)Greek
5)The polygamist husband had too many wives to remember all their anniversaries.

Misanthrope-
1)person whohates or distrusts humankind
2) noun
3)none
4)Greek
5)Scroog was a misanthrope with a "ba, humbug" attitude

2006-09-13T10:33:00.000-05:00

Pillage
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English pilage, from Anglo-French, from piler to rob, plunder
1 : the act of looting or plundering especially in war
2 : something taken as booty
3 : no root words
4 :the village was pillaged after the war.

Plunder

Form(s): plun·dered; plun·der·ing
Etymology: German plünderntransitive verb
1 : a : to take the goods of by force (as in war) : PILLAGE, SACK invaders plundered the town
b : to take by force or wrongfully : STEAL, LOOT
2 : to make extensive use of as if by plundering : use or use up wrongfully intransitive verb : to commit robbery or looting - plun·der·er /-d&r-&r/ noun
3 : no root words
4 : the ancient tombs were plundered by treasure hunters.

Taboret
Variant(s): or tab·ou·ret
Function: noun
Etymology: French tabouret, literally, small drum, from Middle French, diminutive of tabor, tabour drum, from Old French
1 : a cylindrical seat or stool without arms or back
2 : a small portable stand or cabinet
3 : no root words
4 : please use coasters on the taboret.

Gadwall
Pronunciation: 'gad-"wol
Function: nounInflected
Form(s): plural gadwalls or gadwall
Etymology: origin unknown

1 :a grayish-brown medium-sized dabbling duck
2 : look at the gadwall on the pond.

Vagabond
Pronunciation: 'va-g&-"bänd
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French vacabund, from Late Latin vagabundus, from Latin vagari to wander
1 : moving from place to place without a fixed home : WANDERING
2 a : of, relating to, or characteristic of a wanderer b : leading an unsettled, irresponsible, or disreputable life - vag·a·bond·ish /-"bän-dish/ adjective
3 : no root words
4 : our tribe was considered to be the most skilled vagabond culture.

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Ion
1. Locate the ions in this problem.
2. An electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons.
3. Noun
4. none
5. Greek iòn
6. The test was on ions.

Merlot
1. My mom ordered a glass or merlot.
2. a variety of black wine grape originally from the Bordeaux region of France. • a red wine made from this grape.
3. Noun
4. N/A
5. ORIGIN French
.6. I am not legally old enough to drink Merlot.

Callously
1. The glue turned callously when it dried.
2. made hard
3. Adjective, verb
4. middle english
5. ly, ness, ous
6. After the cement dried it turned into a state of callously.

Incrust
1. Dictionary
2. To cover, line, or overlay with or as if with a crust
3. Transitive verb
4. Incruster
5. French
6. Every pie must be encrusted to keep the filling in.

Chamfered
1. Fundamental of visual communications
2. To cut a furrow in (as a column)
3. Transitive verb
4. Chanfreint
5. Middle French
6. I chamfered the corners of the box.

2006-09-13T10:30:00.005-05:00

goblet
1. i can put many drinks in my goblet.
2. a drinking glass with a foot and a stem. • archaic a metal or glass bowl-shaped drinking cup, sometimes with a foot and a cover.
3. Noun
4. plural
5. ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French gobelet, diminutive of gobel ‘cup,’ of unknown origin.
6. I use my goblet to hold many fluids to drink.

2006-09-13T10:30:00.004-05:00

Static
1. The static in the room is powerful.
2. Pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
3. Adj
4. none
5. Greek
6. My hair can stand up because of static.

2006-09-13T10:30:00.003-05:00

exult-
1. I was exulted to see my family.
2.Rejoice, be very happy
3.Verb
4.-ed, -s, -ing
5.From Latin exsultare, frequentative of exsilire ‘jump up’, from ex- + salire ‘jump, leap’.
6.I exulted when i found my lost keys.

2006-09-13T10:30:00.002-05:00

peril
1. The young dog was peril.
2. exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger
3. noun, verb
4. -less
5. n/a
6. If you explore the jungle you could be in peril.

2006-09-13T10:30:00.001-05:00

Shallow
1. mike is very shallow when choosing his woman.
2. lacking depth; superficial
3. Adjective
4. shallow
5. The shallow man is very lonely.

2006-09-13T10:30:00.000-05:00

Gluttony
1. Gluttony, is very common around the holidays.
2. excessive eating and drinking
3. noun
4. suffix –ies
5. Origin: 1175–1225; ME glotonie, glutonie
6. The football team shows much gluttony at lunch time.

2006-09-13T08:57:00.000-05:00

Haemotoxic
1.Three substituted phenylurea herbicides were used for the study of the haemotoxic effects on rats of chronic exposure to these compounds.
2.descrutive to redblood corpuscles
3.adjective
4.no root words
5.chiefly british
6. The patient had a low number of redblood cells due to the haemotxins in their blood.

Etymology
1.Its etymology and the historical meaning.
2.the derivation of the word
3.noun
4.ME < L etymologia < Gk etymología, equiv. to etymológ(os) studying the true meanings and values of words (étymo(s) true
5.Origin: 1350–1400
6.I looked up the etmology of the word to find out where the word was derived from.

Histology
1.Compound-related lesions were observed histologically in treated rats, with increased pigmentation (haemosiderin) in the spleen, reflecting the response to the haemolytic anaemia and methaemoglobinaemia induced by the herbicides.
2.The branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues
3.noun
4.histo + logy
5.Origin: 1840–50
6.After learning about histology in bioloby we studied samples of tissue under the microscope.

Splenic
1.The haemotoxic effects that were observed may indicate that the formation of adducts between haemoglobin and the parent aromatic amines released metabolically from these herbicides has a role in the splenic toxicity of these compounds.
2.of, pertaining to, connected with, or affecting the spleen: splenic nerves
3.adjective
4. L splēnicus , Gk splēnikós
5.Origin: 1610–20
6.The doctor made a splenic examination of the tissues and surrounding areas of the spleen.

Herbicide
1.Three substituted phenylurea herbicides were used for the study of the haemotoxic effects on rats of chronic exposure to these compounds.
2.a substance or preparation for killing plants, esp. weeds
3.noun
4.Herb, cide
5.Origin: 1895–1900
6.The gradener sprayed a herbicide over the brown looking garden to ensure that all plants and weeds were dead.

2006-09-13T02:40:00.000-05:00

quantum

noun quanta

1a. An amount or quantity, especially a specified one;
1b. A portion, part or share.
2a. physics.
The minimal indivisible amount of a specified physical property (eg momentum or electromagnetic radiation energy, etc) that can exist;2b. physics.
A unit of this, eg the photon. Often as adj.
Example: quantum effect

adj

1. Major, large or impressive but also sudden, unexpected or abrupt, etc.

Etymology: 17c: from Latin, neuter of quantus how much.

He recieved a minimal quanta of the pie.

reconnaissance

noun

1. military.
A survey, eg of land or the position of troops, to obtain information about the enemy before advancing.2. Reconnoitring.

Etymology: 19c: French.

The reconnaissance of the child put his parents in an unwanted perdicament.

ketosis

noun

1. medicine.
The excessive formation of acetone or ketone bodies in the body, due to incomplete oxidation of fats, which occurs in diabetes and is also an indicator of starvation.

Etymology: Early 20c.

Juanita had to inject insulin in herself in order to help manipulate the ketosis her body was forcing on her.

disenfranchise

verb

1. To deprive of a right of citizenship.

noun- disenfranchisement.

etymology: 15c as disfranchise, 17c as disenfranchise

African-Americans were disenfranchised by some citizens of the United States when she was a baby nation.

Myriad

noun

1. An exceedingly great number.

adjective- numberless, innumerable

Etymology: 16c. From Greek myrias meaning ten thousand

The myriad of numbers that exsist gives me a headach.

2006-09-13T01:39:00.000-05:00

Chris Anderson
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060913/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle
Wearing bulky suits and gloves, the two Atlantis astronauts ventured outside to begin attaching a new 17 1/2-ton box-like truss section that the space shuttle delivered earlier this week.
truss
noun trusses

1. A framework, eg of wooden or metal beams, that supports a roof, bridge, etc.
Thesaurus: brace, shore, support, buttress, prop.2. A belt, bandage, etc worn to support a hernia.
3. A bundle of hay or straw that can be of various weights, eg 56lbs for old hay, 60lbs for new hay or 36lbs for straw.
4. A cluster of flowers or fruit at the top of a main stalk or stem.
5. archit.
A large corbel.

verb trusses, trussed, trussing

1. To tie up or bind tightly.
Form: truss up (often)2. To tie up the legs of (a pig, rabbit, etc), or the wings and legs of (a chicken, etc), before cooking.
3. To support (a roof, bridge, etc) with a truss.

Derivative: trussed
adj

Derivative: trusser
noun

Derivative: trussing
noun

Etymology: 13c: from French trousser.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060913/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle
Tanner and Stefanyshyn-Piper zipped through a jam-packed list of arduous but mundane construction tasks, putting NASA ahead of schedule in connecting the addition.
arduous
adj

1. Difficult; needing a lot of work, effort or energy.
Thesaurus: difficult, hard, strenuous, exhausting, gruelling, laborious, severe, taxing, enervating, draining, rigorous, trying, onerous, formidable; Antonym: easy.2. Steep.

Derivative: arduously
adverb

Derivative: arduousness
noun

Etymology: 16c: from Latin arduus steep.
Sybil said it :P
etymology
noun etymologies

1. The study of the origin and development of words and their meanings.
2. An explanation of the history of a particular word.
Thesaurus: word history, derivation, origin.

Derivative: etymological
adj

Derivative: etymologically
adverb

Derivative: etymologist
noun

Etymology: 15c: from Latin etymologia, from Greek etymon the literal sense of a word, from etymos true.

Hornswoggle
"I've been hornswoggled" Rivera said (Dawn of Ages mud)
hornswoggle
verb

(originally US)
hornswoggled, hornswoggling
1. slang
To trick, deceive or cheat.

Etymology: 19c.

Evanesce
"Evanesce" is our debut album, with 11 songs from the hearts of all of us.
http://www.anatomyofaghost.net/cds.html
verb

evanesced, evanescing
1. literary
Said of smoke or mist, etc: to disappear gradually; to fade from sight.

Derivative: evanescence
noun

Derivative: evanescent

Quickly fading.

Short-lived; transitory.
Thesaurus: transitory, vanishing, fading, fleeting, brief, fugacious, ephemeral, disappearing, short-lived; Antonym: permanent.

Etymology: 19c: from Latin evanescere to vanish.

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My words Post......

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catholic
adj

1. Relating or belonging to the Roman Catholic Church.
Form: Catholic2. Relating to the whole Christian Church, especially before the East-West split of 1054, or to the Western Church before the split caused by the Reformation.
Form: Catholic3. Said especially of a person's interests and tastes: broad; wide-ranging.
Thesaurus: cosmopolitan, universal, general, worldly, comprehensive, eclectic, liberal, open-minded, receptive, wide-ranging, broad-minded, tolerant, indulgent; Antonym: prejudiced, narrow.

noun

1. A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Form: Catholic

Etymology: 14c: from Greek katholikos universal.

Sentence: "I am not a catholic, I swear!"
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trefa
tref
adj

1. Judaism.
Said of the flesh of an animal: not fit for human consumption because it has not been slaughtered in the prescribed way. Opposite of kosher.

Etymology: 19c: from Hebrew terephah torn, which was applied to flesh torn off by wild animals, from taraph to tear.

Sentence: "Damn hunters always makin' tref meat"
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Concinnity

con·cin·ni·ty (kn-sn-t)pronunciation of "concinnity" [P]
n. pl. con·cin·ni·ties

1. Harmony in the arrangement or interarrangement of parts with respect to a whole.
2. Studied elegance and facility in style of expression: “He has what one character calls ‘the gifts of concinnity and concision,’ that deft swipe with a phrase that can be so devastating in children” (Elizabeth Ward).
3. An instance of harmonious arrangement or studied elegance and facility.

[From Latin concinnits, from concinnre, to put in order, from concinnus, deftly joined.]

Sentence: "I dare you to try to make a proper sentence with the word concinnity!"
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Favela

fa·ve·la (f-vl) Pronunciation Key
n.

A shantytown or slum, especially in Brazil.

[Portuguese, possibly from diminutive of favo, honeycomb (from Latin favus), or from favelas(probably from pl. of favela, spurge, from fava, bean, from Latin faba. See bha-bh- in Indo-European Roots).]

Sentence: "Look at that favela, do you want to live like that?"
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Heterosis

het‧er‧o‧sis /ˌhɛtəˈroʊsɪs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[het-uh-roh-sis] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Genetics.
the increase in growth, size, fecundity, function, yield, or other characters in hybrids over those of the parents.
Also called hybrid vigor.

[Origin: 1910–15; < LGk hetérōsis an alteration. See hetero-, -sis]

Sentence: "Your family has issues with heterosis!!!"
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My words
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Dominant- Context- Dominant. Original Sentence- “You want to select and develop details that create a dominant impression of the subject. Definition- ruling, governing, or controlling; having or exerting authority or influence: Part of speech- adjective. Root- Dominaunt. Etymology- Old French.
Enormous- Context- Enormous. Original Sentence- To produce enormous waves that would end up drowning my kings and queens. Definition- greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.; huge; immense. Part of speech- Adjective. Root- enormis. Etymology- Latin.
Cozy- Context- Cozy. Original Sentence- Looking back at the cabin from here, the small cozy shack is replaced with Roger’s design of an A Shaped home of great heighth and encloses the many comforts of a true home. Definition- snugly warm and comfortable. Part of speech- Adjective. Root- koselig. Etymology- Scandinavian
Angular- Context- Angular. Original Sentence- Thirty foot ceiling mirroring his enormous angular windows that encompass the whole wall of the lakeside of the cabin. Definition- consisting of, situated at, or forming an angle.
Part of speech- Adjective. Root- Angularis. Etymology-Latin

5. Tetchy- Context- Tetchy Original Sentence- Waugh's tetchy and combative personality made him a difficult companion at arms.-- Penelope Lively, "A Maverick Historian", The Atlantic, February 2001. Definition- Peevish testy: irritable. Part of speech- Adjective. Root- tetchiness. Etymology- Middle English.

2006-09-12T23:39:00.000-05:00

De-energize
1. Test the circuit that is to become the de-energized circuit with the meter.
2. To deprive of electrical energy or exhaust the electrical energy from.
3. Verb
4. none
5. British, de-energise
6. Turning off the ignition de-energizes the spark plugs.

Fibrillation
1. Current from 100 to 200 milliampers generally cause death because the heart usually goes into fibrillation.
2. Uncontrolled twitching or quivering of muscular fibrils.
3. noun
4. Fibrillate
5. none
6. If ones heart goes into fibrillation, they will die.

Static
1. The word static means not moving or sitting still.
2. Pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
3. Adj
4. none
5. Greek
6. Static electricity can create a shock.

Electroscope
1. To determine the polarity of the electostatic charge of an object is the electroscope.
2. A device for detecting the presence and determining the sign of electric charges by means of electrostatic attraction and repulsion, often between two pieces of gold leaf enclosed in a glass-walled chamber.
3. Noun.
4. electroscopic
5. Origin: 1815–25
6. An elctroscope is a metal ball attached to the end of a metal rod.

Ion
1. Calculate the number of ions in this atom.
2. An electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons.
3. Noun
4. none
5. Greek iòn
6. Atoms that have a deficiency of electrons are known as positive ions.

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1. Psychoanalytic
a. fraud came up with psychoanalytic
b. Noun
c. No suffix
d. A method or process of psychothereapuetic analysis based on the work of fraud.
e. No Etymology
f. My patient was a psychanalytic

2. Impirically
a. Adj.
b. derived from or guided by experience or experiment
c. "he was impirically guided by his dad"
d. -ly-ness-
e. No etymology
f. The team was impirically overwhelmed.

3. Reimbursed
a. you can reimburse your reciet
b. -ed-ing-es
c. verb.
d. to repay; refund
e. no etymology
f. go and reimburse your meal

4. Incepted
a. its so incepted
b. to take in; ingest
c. verb.
d. -cept-ing-ed
e. no etymology
d. the girls had to incept the loss

5. Hypocrisy
a. its such a hypocrisy
b. noun
c. -sies-
d.a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude
e. no etymology
f. the fight was a big hypocrisy

2006-09-12T21:12:00.000-05:00

peril
1. The empire is in peril.
2. exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger
3. noun, verb
4. -less
5. n/a
6. Do as you're told or you could be in deep peril.

imminent
1. imminent danger
2. likely to occur at any moment; impending
3. adjective
4. -ly -ness
5. From the present participle of Latin imminere, "to overhang", from minere, "to jut out"
6. The campers were in imminent danger as they were climbing up the side of the snowy mountain.

retribution
1. retribution at hand
2. requital according to merits or deserts, esp. for evil
3. noun
4. none
5. Latin, from retribuere 'assign again'.
6. Retribution's a bitch.

unabridged
1. Dictionary.com Unabridged V. 1
2. not abridged or shortened, as a book
3. adjective, noun
4. none
5. n/a
6. This volume is unabridged.

parameter
1. You can also pass values as parameters to the stored procedures.
2. one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations
3. noun
4. -s
5. n/a
6. I think I learned about parameters last year in Math, but I don't remember.

2006-09-12T21:11:00.000-05:00

inflicted

1.Stanke's vehicle struck a minivan driven by a Wisconsin man and inflicted an arm injury.
2.To deal or mete out (something punishing or burdensome)
3.verb
4.in·flict·ed, in·flict·ing, in·flicts
5.latin
6.He looked like he inflicted pain when he hit the quarterback.

vulnerability

1.the speed and distance of the chase, the use of drugs and the vulnerability of the police officer.
2.capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon
3.adjective
4.vulner·a·bili·ty or vulner·a·ble·ness n. vulner·a·bly
5.latin
6.By being a young team it showed their vulnerability to perform

imposes

1.He may face up to 47 years if the judge imposes the maximum penalty.
2.To apply or make prevail by or as if by authority
3.verb
4.im·posed, im·pos·ing, im·pos·es
5.Middle English
6.The officer could take him down town if he imposses to do so.

allegedly

1.Trying to handcuff the man who allegedly assaulted him.
2.according to what is or has been alleged
3.adverb
4.al·leged
5.latin
6.He was on trial for allegedly murdering his wife.

ensued

1.A shoving match ensued between players.
2.To follow as a consequence or result
3.verb
4.en·sued, en·su·ing, en·sues
5.Old English
6.They ensued the game of cards.

2006-09-12T20:54:00.000-05:00

Shaken, not stirred if you don't mind!

Merlot
1. I would like a glass of Merlot please.
2. a variety of black wine grape originally from the Bordeaux region of France. • a red wine made from this grape.
3. Noun
4. N/A
5. ORIGIN French.
6. I love the taste of a warm glass of Merlot.

Zinfandel
1. What is Zinfandel exactly?
2. a variety of wine grape grown in California. • a red or blush dry wine made from this grape.
3. Noun
4. plural
5. ORIGIN of unknown origin.
6. This is a cold glass of White Zinfandel.

Chardonnay
1. Are you planning on drinking that whole bottle of Chardonnay?
2. a variety of white wine grape used for making champagne and other wines. • a wine made from this grape.
3. Noun
4. N/A
5. ORIGIN French.
6. Yes, I am going to drink this whole bottle of Chardonnay myself.

spritzer
1. Do you know how to mix a spritzer?
2. a mixture of wine and soda water.
3. Noun
4. plural
5. ORIGIN 1960s: from German Spritzer ‘a splash.’
6. Are you sure you want a spritzer before you drive?

goblet
1. What are you going to put in that goblet?
2. a drinking glass with a foot and a stem. • archaic a metal or glass bowl-shaped drinking cup, sometimes with a foot and a cover.
3. Noun
4. plural
5. ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French gobelet, diminutive of gobel ‘cup,’ of unknown origin.
6. I will have some wine in that goblet.

I do believe life should be tastefully simple! BT for blogger MR. Vulcan

2006-09-12T20:39:00.000-05:00

Jilted
1. wedding off, jilted bride turns rectption into benifit. 2. to decieve or drop a lover 3. noun 4. Middle English 5. ed, ing 6. I jilted my boyfriend for another one.

Squabbles
1. 9/11 speech sparks partisan squabbles 2. to engage in a disagreeable argument 3. noun 4. scandinavian 5. bled, bling, bles 6. my boyfriend and i had a squabble over the remote.

Coroner
1. it was unclear whether a coroner had completed the autopsy. 2. an officer, as of a county or municipality 3. noun 4. Anglo-Norman 5. no prefex or suffix 6. They had to bring in a coroner to finish the investigation

Autopsy
1. it was unclear whether a coroner had completed the autopsy 2. an analysis of something it has been done or made 3. noun, verb 4. Greek 5. sies, sied, sying 6. the autopsy had to look at our finished blanket

Callously
1. to drop callously 2. made hard 3. Adjective, verb 4. middle english 5. ly, ness, ous 6. i used alot of hairspray to make it callously to stay in place.

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Vacilate
1.Allow the piece to vacilate freely
2. 1. To sway from one side to the other; oscillate.
2. To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another. (synonym: hesitation)

3 To be changeable or inconsistent in speech or action.
3.Verb
4.-ed, -ing, -s
5.Latin vacill re, vacill t-, to waver.
6.I have a vacilating fan.

Solstice
1. There is day longer than the solstice.
2. 1. The point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun.
2. One of two days in the year when the day (as opposed to the night) is either longest or shortest. (21 June and 22 December).
3. noun
4.n/a
5.Latin sol : sun + sistere : to stand still.
6.The sonstice is the changing of length of day.

exult-
1. I was exulted to say none the less. (book)
2.Rejoice, be very happy
3.Verb
4.-ed, -s, -ing
5.From Latin exsultare, frequentative of exsilire ‘jump up’, from ex- + salire ‘jump, leap’.
6.I exulted when I won the car.

impertinent
1. No matter, it is impertinent.
2. 1. irrelevant (opposite of pertinent)
2. insolent, ill-mannered

Usage Note: Although historically sense (1) was original (derived from French below), over time meaning switched to sense (2). However, more recently meaning has swung back to (1). (As people have used the word less, its latter and somewhat illogical meaning has declined in favour of the earlier and more logical one.) However, many older speakers will consider sense (1) incorrect. Some therefore suggest avoiding the word altogether.
3.Adjective
4.N/A
5.None, french probably
6.This subject is impertinent to the matter at hand.

Deign
1.How could they not deign us our dignity?
2.Intransitive Verb

deign (+ infinitive)

1. to condescend, denotes distaste due to superiority

he didn't even deign to give us a nod of the head, he thought us that far beneath him

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Transitive Verb

deign

1. to condescend to give; to do something

they didn't deign us our clothing before we were put outside

3.Verb
4.N/a
5.From the Old French deignier from Latin dignari "to deem worthy" from dignus "accept graciously"
6.Can you please deign me a cough drop?

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Antipathy
1. more than antipathy toward religious belief
2. an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling
3. noun, plural
4. suffixes – thies –thist
5. from Greek antipatheia – of opposite feelings
6. I sometimes feel antipathy toward choices I have to make

Repugnance
1. A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance
2. strong distaste, aversion, or objection; antipathy
3. noun
4. suffixes –cy
5. Origin: 1350–1400 L repugnantia, equiv. to repugn(āre) to repugn + -antia -ance
6. I have a lot of repugnance toward people who cannot speak truthfully

Municipality
1. we act as a municipality
2. a city, town, or other district possessing corporate existence and usually its own local government
3. noun, plural
4. suffixes –ties
5. Origin: 1780–90; F municipalité
6. a municipality will serve their people

Gluttony
1. Gluttony is an example of a self-regarding vice.
2. excessive eating and drinking
3. noun
4. suffix –ies
5. Origin: 1175–1225; ME glotonie, glutonie
6. around the family holidays Christmas and thanksgiving we preceed in much gluttony

Unbridled
1. nor can we give parents unbridled power over their children
2. not controlled or restrained; unrestrained, uncontrollable
3. adjective
4. suffix -ly
5. Origin: 1325–75; ME unbridled
6. In many of my children’s acts they are unbridled.

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Surcease
1.) Listening to academics going on about desire is a profound anti-aphrodisiac treasure for those of us seeking surcease from worldly temptations.
2.) Stop, end
3.)Noun
4.)N/A
5.)Surcease comes from Old French sursis, past participle of surseoir, "to refrain," from Latin supersedere, "to sit above, to sit out," from super, "above" + sedere, "to sit."
6.) The rain came down so hard and showed no sign of surcease.

Tetchy
1.)Waugh's tetchy and combative personality made him a difficult companion at arms.
2.) Peevish; testy, irritable
3.)Adj.
4.)Root word Tetche
5.)Tetchy probably comes from Middle English tecche, "a bad habit," from Old French tache, teche, "a spot, stain, blemish, habit, vice."
6.) I became tetchy the minute he started to argue with me.

Verisimilitude
1.)In an attempt to create verisimilitude, in addition to the usual vulgarities, the dialogue is full of street slang.
2.)Appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
3.)Noun
4.)N/A
5.)Verisimilitude comes from Latin verisimilitudo, from verisimilis, from verus, "true" + similis, "like, resembling, similar." The adjective form is verisimilar.
6.)The play lacked verisimilitude.

Pejorative
1.)Welfare state is now, even for the Labour party whose grand historic achievement it was, obscurely shameful. A pejorative for our times.
2.)A belittling or disparaging word or expression.
3.)Noun
4.)N/A
5.)Pejorative is derived from the past participle of Late Latin pejorare, "to make worse, to become worse," from Latin pejor, "worse."
6.)He used pejorative words when describing a girl.

Suasion
1.)He visualized a world wherein power is exercised peacefully by moral suasion and political acumen, a world of idealism in many ways.
2.)The act of persuading; persuasion.
3.)Noun
4.)n/a
5.)Suasion comes from Latin suasio, from suadere, "to present in a pleasing manner," hence, "to advise." It is related to suave, "gracious or agreeable in manner."
6.)He talked by suasion to everybody.

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Imperative
1. It is imperative that we continue our lives after 9/11.
2. absolutely necessary or required
3. adjective
4. imperative
5. 1520-30
6. "It is imperative that we take that next hill" said the captain.

Ostentatious
1. last weeks definitions
2. characterized by or given to pretentionsor conspicious show in an attempt to impress others
3. adjective
4. ostentatious
5. 1650-60
6. My sister is very ostentatious in her appearance.

Cavernous
1. At ground zero, a cavernous pit still largely unchanged from the first anniversary, family members of the 2,749 people lost held photos fo loved ones, crossed themselves and sobbed quietly.
2. being, resembling, or suggestive of a cavern
3. adjective
4. cavernous
5. 1350-1400
6. The man was in shock of the cavernous state of where his house once stood after the tornado.

Squandered
1. missed chances, squandered opportunities (news headline)
2. to spend wastefully or extravagantly, dissipate
3. adjective
4. squander
5. origin unknown
6. Many of our government offices squandered their resources during hurricane katrina.

Subsequent
1. I'm sure my memories of the subsequent days are shared by many.
2. occuring or coming later or after
3. adjective
4. susequent
5. 1425-75
6. The subsequent days of 9/11 will be remembered forever.

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Pang

1.) Colbert Report
2.) A brief piercing spasm of pain 3.) noun 4.) root word unknown
5.) Origin unknown
6.) A pang of jealousy struck me.

Incrust

1.) Dictionary
2.) To cover, line, or overlay with or as if with a crust
3.) Transitive verb
4.) Incruster
5.) French
6.) Every sentence you encrust in your shell is a sentence too many.

Chamfered

1.) Tomorrow’s Technician
2.) To cut a furrow in (as a column)
3.) Transitive verb
4.) Chanfreint
5.) Middle French
6.) The carpenter chamfered the drawer face edges before he installed it.

Desiccant

1.) Colbert Report
2.) A substance, such as calcium oxide or silica gel, that has a high affinity for water and is used as a drying agent.
3.) Noun
4.) Desiccate
5.) Latin
6.) The desiccant absorbed any water left in the A/C system

Deshoeitated

1.) Online Dictionary
2.) When one's foot is chopped off
3.) Transitive Verb
4.) Root word unknown
5.) Entomology unknown
6.) Mrs. Solmon deshoeitated me for touching something on the prop table.

2006-09-08T13:01:00.000-05:00

Nonchalant
1 It will be a very nonchalant day.
2 Carefree
3 Adjective
4 No
4 Lack of warmth
6 The nonchalant of this room makes me need a blanket.

Nirvana
1 On a CD
2 Eternal rest
3 Noun
4 No
5 Freedom from endless cycle of reincarnation
6 Nirvana gives some people freedom and others fear.

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Deductive. dedective reasoning. logical process in which a conclusion is drawn from a set of premisis contains no more information than the premises taken collectively. adjective

2006-09-08T09:46:00.000-05:00

polyphase. AC polyphase motors other than wound rotor. of or pertaining to a set of alternating currents that have the same frequency but different phases and that enter a specified region at more than two points. adjective.

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synchronous. synchronous motors of the low-torque low-speed, are used to drive reciprocating compressors pupms and so forth. def-going on at the same time at the same rate. adjective.

2006-09-08T09:28:00.000-05:00

deterrent. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress. noun. a deterrent to crime. i heard it on the news.

2006-09-08T09:19:00.000-05:00

inductive. i read it in my electrical code study book. def-of pertaining to or involving electrical or magnetic induction. adjective. inductivus

2006-09-06T13:32:00.000-05:00

Permissive
1)From my electronics fundamentals class
2)granting or denoting permission
3)adjective
4)permiss suffix:ive
5)latin backround
6)the college class was in a permissive manner

Hoistway
1)From my electronics fundamentals class
2)the opening for a hoist, or elevator, in the floor ofa wareroom
3)noun
4)hoistway
5)greek
6)the factory warehouse had a hidden hoistway

2006-09-06T13:24:00.000-05:00

ampacity. I read it in my electrical code study book. refers to how much current a wire can safely carry. This wire has an ampacity of 120.

2006-09-06T13:05:00.000-05:00

trifflin iv'e heard my brother calling someone else trifflin. sad, pathetic, unmotivated excuse for a person or action verb Sarah is trifflin.

2006-09-06T10:47:00.002-05:00

1. Neurons- my neurons flickered with excision why’ll I tried to keep up with the professor /Neuron-Cells specilized for communicating information, part of speech noun
2. Psychology- psychology is one of the classes i need to take for my mager /psychology- The science of behavior and cognitive processes, part of speech noun

2006-09-06T10:47:00.001-05:00

milksop
1)But through intelligent and good tempered, he was also something of a milksop, unlike his younger brothers who were full of courage. 2) an unmanly man. 3) noun 4) n/a 5) Comes from middle English, literally a piece of bread sopped in milk. 6) He was suck a milksop unlike his sister who was a tyrant.

2006-09-06T10:47:00.000-05:00

Alfresco 1)We ate out food alfresco. 2) outdoors. 3) Adverb. 4) N/A. 5) N/A. 6) We had a picinic alfresco.

2006-09-05T21:11:00.000-05:00

Arcane
1) My teacher is arcane.
2) Understood or known by only a few
3) Adjective
4) Arcane suffix: cane
5) Latin, arcanus
6) The preacher of my church is arcane

2006-09-05T21:02:00.001-05:00

Manometer
1) The scientist used a manometer for the water.
2) A device that measures pressure of a gas or liguid in a sealed vessel.
3) Noun
4) prefix mano + meter
5)
6) The teacher told me to use the manometer on the water.

Allotrope
1) The teacher asked me what an allotrope of carbon was.
2) One or two more distinct forms of an element that has the same physical state.
3) Noun
4) prefix allo + trope
5)
6) I told the teacher that graphite and diamond were allotropes of carbon.

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1. Tranquility- Context-Tranquility. Original sentence- There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. Definition- Quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity. Part of Speech- Noun. Root- n/a. Etymology- Latin Tranquillus.2. Dream- Context- Dream. Definition- A succession of images, thoughts, or emotions pasing through the mind during sleep. Part of Speech- Noun. Root- Noisy Merriment. Etymology- Old English. Original Sentence- I have a dream.

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1. Extradition:
a. Jeff warren was an extraditioner
b. the sureender of an alleged fugitive from justice or criminal by one state, nation, or authority to another.
c. er
d. Noun
e. etymology- french, from latin ex-out, and hand-over
f. John Karr was also a extraditioner.

2. Vanquish
a. Vanavished a disease.
b. to conquer or subdue to superior force, as in battle.
c. adjective/ noun
d. able/ er/ ment
e. no etymology
f. He vanquished all his fears.

3. Vigilante
a. Vigilante Dad??
b. a member of a vigilance comittee.
c. ism/tism
d. adj/noun
e. no etymology
f. jeff warren was a vigilante father.

4. Compensated
a. be part time basis and to be compensated therefore.
b. to recompose for something
c. verb/ adv./ noun
d. ly/ or/ ed
e. no etymology
f. they gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.

5. Exemption
a. your exepmtion for 2006 expires feb. 16 2007
b. the circumstances of a tax payer, as age or number or dependents, that allow him or her to make certain deductions from taxable income.
c. noun/ adj.
d. ive.
e. no etymology
f. the exemption date was getting closer

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Permissable:

1.Ecal 101
2.that can be permitted; allowable
3.adjective
4.permiss
5.middle english
6.Such behavior is not permissable.

Impedance

1.Code Study
2.the total opposition to alternating current by an electrical circuit
3.noun
4.Impede
5.from latin reagere;reactum
6.There was an impedance of the alternating current

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Soley:
1. Questions about the human mind could not be answered solely. 2. Alone, single, as the only one. 3. Adverb 4. ly 5. no background 6. I am at home solely.

Empirical:
1. The human mind could be studied though empirical. 2. Guided by practical experience and not theory. 3. Adjective, Adverb, Noun 4. ly, ness 5. no background 6. My partner and I had a empirical day.

Thorny:
1. In turn, raised a thorny question. 2. Bristling with perplexities 3. Adjective, Adverb, Noun 4. ly, ness, er, est 5. no background 6. I asked Sybil a thorny question yesterday.

Debris:
1. A jet becomes debris. 2. the remains of anything broken down or destroyed, ruins, rubble. 3. Noun 4. no prefix or suffix 5. French 6. After my accident my car was debris.

Polygamy:
1. Witness shocks polygamy prosecutors. 2. The condition or practice of having more than one spouse at one time. 3. Noun 4. French, Late Latin, Greek 5. no prefix or suffix 6. It is just weird to be a polygamy.

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Hampering:
1. Bernake warns against hampering trade. 2. To prevent the free movement, action, or progress of. 3. Verb, noun 4. Middle English 5. ing 6. i was hampering against someone taking my car.

Grapples:
1. Describe some major issures with which it grapples. 2. An iron shaft with claws at one end usually thrown by a rope and used for grasping and holding. 3. es, ing, ed 4. Verb 5. Middle English 6. I was climbing a mountain holding onto a grapple.

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1. Amniocentesis

2. The process of identifying genetic defects by examining a small sample of fetal cells drawn by a needle inserted into the amniotic fluid surrounding the unborn fetus.

3. Noun

4. Root word is Amniocentesis

5. Origin 1955-60: Amnio-(as form of amnion)+centesis
Amnion: The innermost of embryonic of fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended.
Centesis: A puncture into the body usually to remose fluid.

6. Between the 15th and 18th week of pregnancy, amniocentesis is the procedure that examines a sample of the amniotic fluid, which contains fetal cells.

1. Metalinguistic

2. A understanding of one's own use of language.

3. Adjective

4. Metalinguistic

5. Orgin 1940-45: Meta-prefix: Appearing in loanwords from Greeks, with meanings "after", "beyond", "among", "behind", and productive in english on Greek model.
Linguistic: Of or belonging to language.

6. The increase in metalinguistic skills during middle childhood allows children to enter into the give-and-take of conversation more successfully.

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verbose

1) "he is too verbose and longwinded to ever male a close reasoner."
2)containing more words then necessary: wordy. 3)adjective 4)rootword:verboness suffix: -ness 5)Latin verbosus, from verbum 6)The teacher was giving a verbosive lature, all of the students were dosing off.

Circumlocution

1)Gary stop being circumlocutioin your such a circumlocuter, can't you just get to the point. 2)the use of unnecessarilt wordy and indirect language, invasion in speech or writing, a roundabout expression 3)noun 4)none 5)Latin 6)Sam, you better stop circumlocting or we will be here all afternoon.

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Rivulets
1. "...with rivulets of water running between them in crooked likes down toward the sea."
2. A small brook or stream, a streamlet
3. Noun
4.Root word is Rivulet
5. from the Italian word "rivoletto" meaning small stream
6. As she rinsed the dishes, small rivulets of water ran back into the sink.

Indulgently
1. "He looked down at her indulgently encouraged as always bye her optimism."
2. characterized as lenient, kind, or permissive
3. Adj.
4. root word is indulgent
5. from the Latin word "indulgere"
6. She smiled indulgently as she opened the door for the elderly woman.

I'm from Oakes ND. I moved from Wyoming when I was in 2nd grade. I have a little brother, who just entered 7th grade. My mom's a nurse. My dad's a Autotech teacher. We live on a 3 acre farm....very small.

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Surmise-
1) found in comic strip of Chemistry Book.
2)-To think or infer with out certian or strong evidence.
-An idea or thought of something bieng possible or likely.
3)noun, verb
4)none
5)Middle English, Surmisen
6)I surmise that hes invention will work.
Equalibrium-
1)found in Anatomy Book
2)-a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces.
3)Noun
4)none
5)Latin, aequilibrium
6)He was so frustrated that he lost all equalibrium.

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pedantic

1.The war in Iraq is shallow and pedantic
2. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
3.Adjective
4.Origin: 1590–1600; pedant + -ic]
5. I was pendatic in class this morning.

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1.For each word you will need the following information, its etymology and the historical meaning.
2.The derivation of a word. An account of the history of a particular word or element of a word. The study of historical linguistic change, esp. as manifested in individual words.
3.Verb, Adverb, Adjective
4.none
5.Origin: 1350–1400; ME
6.What is the etymology of the word ship?

2006-08-28T13:32:00.000-05:00

Euphemism

1. "Basically a euphemism is a polite way of saying something which is embarrassing."
2. Definition - the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt
3. Part of Speech - Noun
4. Euphemist
5. Etymology - From Greek Euphemismos
6. "To pass away" is a euphemism for "to die."

Frugal

1. "You need to be frugal with your money at college."
2. Definition - Economic in use or expenditure.
3. Part of Speech - Adj.
4. NA
5. Etymology - Latin
6. I am being frugal with my money now that I am in college.

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Insurrection-organized, armed rebellion against an established governmentof civil authority.
1. Internet
2. Noun
3. al, ally, ism, ist
4. Middle English from Old French from late Latin
5. Last week there was a big insurrection againt President Bush.

Inlay-the process of setting one material into another to create a decorative design.
1. TV Show
2. Verb
3. laid, laying, layer
4. Middle English leyen From Old English lecgan
5. I am having the superman logo inlaid in my pickup seats.

2006-08-28T13:28:00.000-05:00

Pedantic

1. The war in Iraq is shallow and pedantic.
2. ostentatious in ones learning
3. adjective
4. pedantic
5.
6. Many of my teachers are pedantic in their teaching techniques

2006-08-28T13:27:00.000-05:00

1.Taxonomy-lecture
2.Taxonomy- The classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships.
The science, laws, or principles of classification; systematics.
Division into ordered groups or categories:
3.Noun
4.None
5.French taxonomie : Greek taxis, arrangement; see taxis nomie, method from Greek -nomi. See –nomy
6.Scholars have been laboring to develop a taxonomy of young killers.

2006-08-28T13:26:00.001-05:00

cantankerous

1. I picture Ratchet as a kind of Dr. McCoy type character - cantankerous but reliable.
2.bloody-minded: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate;having a difficult and contrary disposition
3.Adj.
4. Perhaps from Middle English contek, dissension (influenced by such words as rancorous and cankerous), from Anglo-Norman contec, possibly from Latin contāctus, past participle of contingere, to touch.
5.I can be cantankerous.

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1.) Indesicion
1. heard from the Daily Show with John Stewart
2. definition- doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action
3. part of speech- noun
4. root word- decision
5. etymology- French
6. His indesicion was only momentary but the opportunity was lost.
2.) Enumerate
1. saw it in a book
2. definition- to ascertain the number of
3. part of speech- transitive verb
4. root word- number
5. etymology- Latin
6. She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered.

2006-08-28T13:24:00.001-05:00

Meritorious

1) Off the News
2)deserving reward or praise
3) Adj.
4) Meritoriously Suf-ly
5) Latin
6) The actor was a meritorious man

Denounce

1) Yahoo! News
2) announce termination of agreement
3) verb
4) denouncement Suf-ment
5) Old French
6) The chairman has to denounce the contract.

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Shallow

1. The war in Iraq is shallow and padantic
2. lacking depth; superficial
3. Adjective
4. shallow
5. The shallow man is never satisfied

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ETYMOLOGY

1. FROM THE ASSIGNMENT
2. IS THE STUDY OF THE ORIGINS OF WORDS
3. NOUN
4. NONE
5. ETUMOS -REAL OR TRUE. OLOGY - STUDY/SCIENCE
6. FOR GOING TO A CERTAIN LANGUAGE CLASS, WE HAD TO USE WORDS THAT CAME FROM THAT COUTRY

TAXIDERMY

1. " MANY PEOPLE LIKE TO GET TAXIDERMY IN THEIR LIVING ROOMS TO SHOW A CERTAIN DESIGN." HOMEDECOR
2. THE ART OR SKILL OF PREPARING, STUFFING, AND PRESENTING DEAD ANIMALS SKINS SO THAT THEY APPEAR LIFELIKE.
3. NOUN
4. NONE
5. DERMA - SKIN. TAXIS - ARRANGEMENT
6. THERE ARE MANY TAXIDERMY ORGANIZATIONS THAT ANIMALS ALL OVER THE WORD ARE SHOWN IN MUSEUMS, HISTORICAL PLACES, AND JUST IN PEOPLE'S HOMES.

HI, MY NAME IS STEPHANIE. I'M FROM LIDGERWOOD, ND. RIGHT NOW I AM IN RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT HERE AT NDSCS. YESTURDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY! I LOVE ANIMALS, READING, AND LISTENING TO MUSIC.

2006-08-28T13:21:00.000-05:00

Robustious

1. TV show
2. 1.Boisterous, vigourous 2. Coarsee; rough; crude
3. Adjective
4. robust
5.
6. The young man used a robutious voice.

Succor

1. TV show
2. 1. aid, help, also to help or relieve 2. Persons or thing that brings relief
3. Noun
4.
5. succors "help, aid" Sucrorres "help assistance"
6. I was in great need of some succor.

2006-08-28T13:20:00.000-05:00

Flisk

1) heard it on the history channel on a show about ancient weapons
2)a caper, a spring, a whim
3)noun
4)
5)
6) I saw a flisk the other day

Anaglyphical

1) a commercial about cameras
2) a composite picture printed in two colors that produces a 3 dimensional image when viewed through spectacles having lenses of corresponding colors
3) noun
4) ical
5) latin expression anaglypticus
6) I once made an anaglyphical photo in art class.

2006-08-28T13:19:00.001-05:00

Skylark

1. As a couple was walking past the playground, they stopped and watched the happy children laugh and skylark and through about how they would soon be having a child.
2. Skylark-to run up and down the riggin of a ship in sport.
3. Verb.
4.Frolic-Sport.
5. none
6. The man showed great streanght as he skylark on the great ship.

Habitue

1. As one jaded habitue of El Casbah observes when an unfamiliar face appears in the club.
2. Habitue-one who habitually frequents a place.
3.Noun
4. latin
5.none.
6.the habitue watched the game for any changes.

2006-08-28T13:19:00.000-05:00

Foible-an unimportant weakness or failing
- noun
-origin: 1640-50 -Henry's foible is he can not here very well but it dosn't matter because he works alone.
-Obsolet french faible, weak point of a sword.
Piebald- spotted or blarched with two colors and especially black and white.
-adjective
-origin: 1580-90 pie squared + bald
-The Zebra is a piebald creature.
- piebald is from pie, the parti-colored bird + bald

2006-08-28T13:18:00.000-05:00

Sacellum

1. The Catholic Church in Minto, ND has a new sacellum in their church basement (Church Newsletter).
2. A small chapel, as a monument within a church.
3. Noun
4. suh-kel-uhm, -sel
5. A diminutive of sacer the word has a Latin background

Etymology

1. Find an etymology of the word (English notes).
2. The derivation of a word
3. Noun
4. et-uh-mol-uh-jee
5. This word is originally from a greek background
6. The teacher had the class do an etymology of each word.

~Sara Jacobs~

2006-08-28T13:08:00.000-05:00

Fundamental

1. Electrical Fundamentals ECAL 101
2. Essential to an object, building, or person
3.Adjective
4.Fundamental
5.
6. I have certain fundamentals for my lifestyle.

Alumni

1. Student Alumni
2.Male graduate or former student of a school, college, or university
3.Noun
4.Alumnus
5.Latin, from the word alere, which means to nourish
6. He's an Alumni of U of M

2006-08-28T13:04:00.000-05:00

Apathy
1. absence or suppression of passion,emotion, or excitement
2. noun
3. Greek
4. I have apathy so bad that some people call me "heartless".

Promiscuity
1. an indiscriminate mixture
2. noun
3. promiscuous
4. When my friend and his girl friend are together it becomes promiscuous situation to be in.

2006-08-28T12:51:00.000-05:00

Guillotine
1.The baracade looked like a guillotine waiting to crush its intruders.
2.A device used for beheading a person by means of a heavy duty blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides.
3.noun
4.Origin: 1785-95 named after J. I. Guillotine, the french physician who urged its use.
5.After researching the word guillotine I realized that this word was used as a "word of the day" in my eigth grade english class.

Anticonvulsant
1.The child really should be given an anticonvulsant.
2.A drug that prevents or relieves convulsions.
3.adjective
4.The doctor perscribed a high dosage of anticonvulsants in hopes that it would help the patient's convulsions.

2006-08-28T10:51:00.001-05:00

Vernacular
1. "slang, swearing and vernacular language are ok in essays."
2. Definition- expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works.
3. Adjective/ Noun
4. root word: Vernacularly
5. no etymology
6. He was a vernacular speaker.

Annihilation
1. In Iraq ther ewas Annihilation
2. The acto or an instance of annihilating.
3. No suffix or root word.
4. No Backround
5. Noun
6. The city got annihilated by the Terriorists

My Name is Jill Wittenburg, i'm from Wyndmere, i grew up on a turkey farm outside of wyndmere. I came from a family of 6 sisters and brother. and my favorite color is purple!

2006-08-28T10:51:00.000-05:00

verbose

1)"He is too verbose and longwinded to ever make a close reasoner." 2) definition- containing more words then necessary: wordy. 3) adjective 4)rootword: verboness suffix: -ness 5)etmology Latin verbosus, from verbum 6)The verbose teacher was putting all of his students to sleep.

Circumlocution

1) Gary stop circunmlocuting your such a circumlocutor. 2) definition- the use of unecessarily wordy and indirect language, invasion in speech or writing, a roundabout expression. 3) noun 4) none 5)latin 6) Sam, you better stop circumlocuting or we will be here all afternoon.

2006-08-28T10:49:00.000-05:00

Reiterate

1. Take time to reiterate the concept, allowing you to better understand it.
2. -to say or do again or repeatedly;repeat, often excessively
3. verb
4. Suffix -able, -ation, -ative, -ly
5. Origin: 1520-30 diversion of iterum (again) {Latin}
6. Inorder toremember the equation , I have to reiterateit in my mind.

Jargon

1. Sytle- (Clarity, Concieness, Emphasis, Tone, Coherence, Word choice, Adoids cliches & unnecessary jargon, the Sentecne Structuer: Avoids monotony.)
2. -unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish
3. noun
4. suffises: -y, -istic, -ist, -eer
5. 1300-50 Old French which was imitated from Middle English - jargoun.
6. The book was hard to follow because of the endless jargon used by the author.

2006-08-28T09:36:00.000-05:00

aegis
1.A third round of talks is scheduled to begin on May 23rd in New York under the aegis of the United Nations
2.Protection; support.
3. noun.
4. Aegis derives from the Greek aigis

expiate
1. The characters often attempt, however futilely, to expiate their past mistakes.
2. To make amends for; to atone for
3. transitive verb
4. Expiate comes from Latin expiare

My name is Caleb Johnson. I grew up in St Paul, MN. I play football here at NDSCS and my favorite things to do is play sports.

2006-08-28T09:13:00.000-05:00

usurp
1. bullying allowed him to usurp her work. 2. to seize and hold 3. Verb 4. Middle English usurpen, from Old French usurper 5. Tom will usurp a starting position on the team.
corollary
1. The positive corollary is What have I learned about my priorities 2. an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion 3. Noun 4. Latin, corollarium, money paid for a garland or chaplet 5. The corollary of his choices should not be ignored.

My name is Chad, i grew up on a dairy farm 10 miles west of Alexandria, MN. I'm going for wildlife management , just taking generals right now. My time is best spent while either duck or goose hunting.

2006-08-28T08:33:00.000-05:00

Small Introduction of myself..... No, I don't wanna.

I grew up in Seattle, WA and lived a healthy drug free life in the punk scene....

I moved to North Dakota in 2004 worked here and there, and I met and dated Chandel Gilleo, We ended up seperating then I moved to South Dakota then to Pennsylvania and got diagnosed with Leukemia CML (Blood Cancer), Then I moved to Ohio for a month or so while I started up treatment.

I came back to Wahpeton, ND and married Chandel Gilleo, now Chandel Wold, who is most likely sitting next to me at this moment. (Love you babe!)

I am in a full remission, which means the cancer is pretty much gone, but I still take one pill a day for the rest of my life.

Chandel and I have a baby boy together and his name is Dan Patrick Wold, he is almost 8 months old.

And yea, anything further into that is classified. Go Away, You never saw me.

1.) Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Original Sentence: "I was offended when the doctor told me I had Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, I wasn't sure if he was swearing at me or telling me my condition!"

The word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanos". It was originally postulated by Everett M. Smith, simply to serve as the longest English word, but has been used in several sources as an approximation of its originally intended definition. The plural of this word, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses is equally long.

Etymology
Look up Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

* pneumono = related to lungs (Latin, from Greek)
* ultra = beyond (Latin, as in "ultraviolet")
* microscopic = extremely small (Latin/Old English, from Greek mikron, small, and skopos, view)
* silico = silica (Latin)
* volcano = volcano (Latin)
* coni = related to dust (Greek: konis, dust)
* osis = disease / condition (Greek)

History

It is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary. This 45-letter word, referred to by logologists as "P45"[1], first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1936, and has also since appeared in the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, and the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary.

Critics of its designation as the longest word complained that it is a technical (specifically, medical) term, and hence not worthy of consideration as the "longest word in general usage".

However, the more serious problem is that the word was originally intended as a hoax: In Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, in several separate articles (May 1985, pp. 95-96; November 1986, pp. 205-206; May 1987, p. 82; November 1989, p. 205 [1]), researchers discovered that the word was invented in 1935 by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers' League, at their annual meeting. The word occurred in a newspaper headline about the meeting, after which it was picked up by an author of puzzle books. Members of the National Puzzlers' League then campaigned to have it included in major dictionaries, eventually succeeding with the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's Third. Research into medical literature prior to 1935 has failed to find the word, although, it has since been used, albeit sparingly.

The name generally used to describe this condition is pneumoconiosis, which is much shorter.

Sources: Wikipedia/Dictionary.com

2.)Polyphony

Original Sentence: "Imagine music without polyphony, it hurts to think about it."

1828, "multiplicity of sounde," from Gk. polyphonia "variety of sounds," from polys "many" (see poly-) + phone "voice, sound" (see fame). The meaning "counterpoint" (1864) is perhaps a back-formation from the adj. polyphonic (1782), formed in Eng. from the same Gk. root.

–noun
1. Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
2. Phonetics. representation of different sounds by the same letter or symbol.
[Origin: 1820–30; < Gk polyphōnía variety of tones. See poly-, -phony]

2006-08-27T20:36:00.000-05:00

verbose

1) "He is too verbose and longwinded to ever make a close reasoner. 2) definition- containing more words then necessary:wordy 3)adjective 4)root word: verboness suffix: -ness 5)etmology- Latin verbosus, from verbum 6) The verbose teacher was putting all of his student to sleep.

Circumlocution

1) Gary stop circumlocuting your such a circumlocuter look i circumlocuted this was an example of circumlocution. 2) definition- the use if unnecessarily wordy and indirect language, invasion in speech or writing, a roundabout expression 3) noun 4)none 5)etmology- latin 6) Sam, you better stop circumlocuting or we will be here all afternoon.

2006-08-25T11:35:00.000-05:00

Thank you, 10am class, for being so patient this morning with the server/slowness problems. I appreciate it. Hopefully, by the end of class on Monday, we'll have everyone's 2 words on here as well as little intros to everyone.

2006-08-25T10:25:00.001-05:00

cetacean
"It shows yet another way in which cetaceans have converged with primates, Noonan said. Other similarities: large brains, long lives and social complexity. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060824/sc_space/killerwhalessettledisputeslikehumans]

noun

1. In the animal kingdom: any animal belonging to the order which includes dolphins, porpoises and whales.

adj

1. Relating or belonging to this group.

Etymology: 19c: Latin, from Greek ketos whale.
[http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=3&Keyword=Cetacean&goquery=Find+it!&Language=ENG]

As the crowd gaped, the captive cetacean was forced to leap through a burning hoop for nothing more then a bit of a fish.

Fissile
The diplomats variously described the reaction to the Iranian reply in the capitals of the six powers as disappointed and even angry because of the lack of response to the main demand — a freeze on enrichment, which can be used to generate energy but also to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060824/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear_66]

fissile
adj

1. geol.
Said of certain rocks, eg shale: tending to split or capable of being split.2. nuclear physics.
Capable of undergoing nuclear fission.

Etymology: 17c: from Latin fissilis that can be split.
http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=3&Keyword=fissile&goquery=Find+it!&Language=ENG

My ex-fiancé had a fissile personality; in both the nuclear, and the geological sense!
My name is Chris Anderson. I'm from Ironwood, MI, although I haven't lived there for a few years. Basically, I've lived all over the united states.
Most recently I was living in Las Vegas, NV with my girlfriend and a friend of mine, then we decided to move back to Wahpeton. Currently we are looking to buy a house in Breckenridge which should go through on the third of next month.

2006-08-24T23:26:00.000-05:00

Derive
1.“One may derive pleasure in a sex act from expressing certain feelings to one’s partner from awareness of the attitude of ones partner, but sexual desire is essentially desire for physical contact in itself: it is a bodily desire for the body of another that dominates our mental life for more or less brief periods.” (applying ethics - class book)
2.to receive or obtain from a source or origin
3. verb
4.Suffix: -riv’ed, -riv’ing, -riv’able, -riv’er
5.The word derive originates from 1350-1400; Middle English diriven, deriven to flow, draw from, spring
6.No matter where my future takes me, I will always derive from my past experiences.

Monogamous
1.“For this reason, monogamous sex, even if justified, almost always represents a sacrifice or the exercise of self-control on the part of the spouses, while monogamous love generally does not." (applying ethics - class book)
2.practicing or advocating monogamy
3.adjective
4.Suffix: -mous’ly, -mous’ness, -mist
5.The word monogamous originates from 1760-1770; Greek –gamos marriage
6.My boyfriend and I have had monogamous relationship since we’ve met and now have two children together.

(please note, credit for answers given to www.dictionary.com)

Hi, I'm Erica Olson, I am 22, live in Breckenridge, just moved back to this area of the world from Cleveland ,Ohio. I live with my boyfriend (Everett) of 5 years, known him since 1998 and we now have 2 children together, Omar Kavel (3)and Imari Jolie (1). I am returning to school to become an RN...just think, thats only the start of the journey into life.

2006-08-24T20:43:00.000-05:00

vermouth
1. Would you please pass me the sweet vermouth so I can mix this drink.
2. a red or white wine flavored with aromatic herbs, chiefly made in France and Italy and drunk mixed with gin
3. noun
4. none
5. origin from French vermout, from German Wermut ‘wormwood.’
6. Next add some vermouth to your vegetables while they are simmering on the stovetop.

snifter
1. Would you please pour me a snifter of brandy?
2. a footed glass that is wide at the bottom and tapers to the top used for brandy and other drinks
3. noun
4. none
5. origin mid 19th cent.: imitative; compare with dialect snift
6. I would much rather have a snifter than a tall glass.

My name is Luke and I like to live life on the edge, partly with my meanstreak. Remember, you can sleep when your dead. Live Life. Paul Harvey, Good Day!

2006-08-24T20:39:00.000-05:00

I'm second...

Sloth...and no, not the animal. It's one of the "seven deadly sins".

1. I saw it on the movie "Seven". It wasn't said by anybody though.
2. Laziness; slow in the mindset.
3. Noun
4. sloths
5. c.1175, "indolence, sluggishness," formed from M.E. slou, slowe (see ; replacing O.E. slæwð. Sense of "slowness, tardiness" is from c.1380. As one of the deadly sins, it translates L. accidia.
6. Don't be a sloth and do your homework. :)

Edentate

1. I found it while looking up my first word.
2. Toothless
3. Adjective
4. none
5. Origin: 1820-30; edentatus deprived of teeth
6. A sloth is an edentate animal.

Hi, I'm Carina. Andy is my boyfriend and "Vulcan" Lukas is my best bud and other roommate. I'm from Underwood, MN. I am here for Business Management; Entrepreneurship. Can't think of anything else to say, sorry.