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Post by CarlaCarlaCarlaCarla on Aug 4, 2012 20:52:22 GMT
re: Types of STUPID Words that deride... dumbass, dipshit, twit, cretin, stupe My favorite is shitferbrains.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 5, 2012 15:29:09 GMT
compeer
1. Close friend; comrade.
2. An equal in rank, ability, accomplishment, etc.; peer; colleague.
3 as a verb (archaic): To be the equal of; match.
Quotes:
Whoever eats them outlasts heaven and earth, and is the compeer of sun and moon. -- Cheng'en Wu, Monkey
Aren't you pleased with him, and didn't he arrange things well, eh, my good compeer Lenet? -- Alexandre Dumas, The Women's War
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Post by Hunny on Aug 6, 2012 11:18:12 GMT
vituperate
\vy-TOO-puh-rate\ , verb: To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
There are moments in life when true invective is called for, when it becomes an absolute necessity, out of a deep sense of justice, to denounce, mock, vituperate, lash out, in the strongest possible language. -- Charles Simic, quoted in "The argument culture", Irish Times, December 17, 1998
The incensed priests...continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin. -- Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
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Post by Hunny on Aug 7, 2012 14:06:19 GMT
assiduous
\uh-SIJ-oo-uhs\ , adjective:
1. Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive.
2. Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, "assiduous labor."
"I can scarcely find time to write you even a Love Letter", Samuel Adams, an assiduous committeeman, wrote his wife in early 1776.
He was a man who by assiduous reading, through his devotion to literature, had become the quintessential successful gentleman, a man who could hold his own with the most cultivated companions.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 8, 2012 11:46:23 GMT
ineffable
\in-EF-uh-buhl\ , adjective:
1. Incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable.
2. Not to be uttered; taboo.
". . .the tension inherent in human language when it attempts to relate the ineffable, see the invisible, understand the incomprehensible."
"An ineffable beauty descends upon the canyon as the sun begins to set."
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Post by Hunny on Aug 9, 2012 16:03:34 GMT
canard
1. An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.
2.a. A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.
2b. An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.
IN A SENTENCE...
Then there's the old canard that the critics have it easy.
And the canard about tenure making it difficult to fire teachers is ridiculous.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 10, 2012 13:39:12 GMT
eschew
\es-CHOO\ , transitive verb:
To shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful).
In high school and college the Vassar women had enjoyed that lifestyle, but afterward they had eschewed it as shallow.
While teaching in Beijing, in the late 1920s, he helped launch what became known as the "new poetry" movement, which eschewed traditional forms and encouraged topics based on everyday life.
Finally, the first American diplomats . . . made a point of eschewing fancy dress, titles, entertainments, and all manner of protocol, so as to be walking, talking symbols of republican piety.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 11, 2012 14:48:21 GMT
expatiate
\ek-SPAY-shee-ayt\ , intransitive verb:
1. To speak or write at length or in considerable detail.
2. To move about freely; to wander.
He had told her all he had been asked to tell--or all he meant to tell: at any rate he had been given abundant opportunity to expatiate upon a young man's darling subject--himself.
At the midday meal, Mrs. Lucas expatiates on the difficulties of caring for a parakeet her daughter has unloaded upon her and which, let out of its cage for an airing, has escaped through the door suddenly opened by Mr. Lucas.
His relationship with his family was for many years an unhappy one, and he does not care to expatiate upon it.
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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 11, 2012 17:36:16 GMT
I have to start working some of these into regular discussion........eschew just sounds like you're sneezing though.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 12, 2012 14:00:59 GMT
putative
\PYOO-tuh-tiv\ , adjective:
1: commonly accepted or supposed
2: assumed to exist or to have existed
The putative reason for her dismissal was poor job performance.
Certainly, to have even a putative ancestor commemorated by Shakespeare is something about which to boast.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 13, 2012 11:16:26 GMT
fallow
1. (adjective): Not in use; inactive: My creative energies have lain fallow this year.
2. (noun): Land plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
OR (verb):To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 14, 2012 13:48:54 GMT
nadir
\NAY-dir; nay-DIR\ , noun:
1. [Astronomy]. The point of the celestial sphere directly opposite the zenith and directly below the observer.
2. The lowest point; the time of greatest depression or adversity.
Exploitation reached a nadir in the 1920s, when high government officials were implicated in a flourishing international slave trade and domestic forced labor. -- Bill Berkeley, The Graves Are Not Yet Full
At the nadir of every recession, business pages fill up with stories of belt-tightening families who move to Vermont and buy their food in bulk. -- Peter T. Kilborn, "Splurge", New York Times, June 21, 1998
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Post by Hunny on Aug 15, 2012 13:34:35 GMT
portend
To indicate in advance (events, misfortunes, etc.); to foreshadow or presage as an omen does; to bode.
The street incident may portend a general uprising.
I see five separate moving clouds of dust; they portend some sort of magic.
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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 15, 2012 18:58:01 GMT
Wow...Nadir got me completely.......have a doctor here in town with that last name but had no idea it was a word........
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Post by Hunny on Aug 16, 2012 13:43:36 GMT
unctuous
\UNGK-choo-us\ , adjective:
1. Of the nature or quality of an ointment; fatty; oily; greasy.
2. Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals.
3. Insincerely or excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; marked by a false or smug earnestness or agreeableness.
A warmed, crusty French roll arrives split, lightly smeared with unctuous chopped liver.
She recalled being offended by the "phoniness" that stemmed from the contradiction between her mother's charming, even unctuous public manner and her anger in private.
He approached Sean wearing a smile so unctuous it seemed about to slide right off his face.
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Post by chips on Aug 17, 2012 1:23:16 GMT
New Word
Exhaustipated
Here is a new word to add to your vocabulary. It will be especially useful to us senior folks!
Exhaustipated: Just too tired to give a sh*t. sorry hunny - the made me do it.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 17, 2012 14:01:23 GMT
rebarbative
\ree-BAR-buh-tiv\ , adjective:
Serving or tending to irritate or repel.
"I can't help regret the irretrievable hours lavished on so much rebarbative critical prose, convinced that the nearly impenetrable must be profound."
"There are aspects of that writer's personality that any reasonable person would regard as rebarbative, but we're just reading his novels—not marrying him."
"Over the past couple of hours a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people have been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-deprivation tanks full of alcohol."
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Post by Hunny on Aug 17, 2012 14:02:30 GMT
New Word
Exhaustipated
Here is a new word to add to your vocabulary. It will be especially useful to us senior folks!
Exhaustipated: Just too tired to give a sh*t. sorry hunny - the made me do it. I get that way at least once a day.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 18, 2012 13:23:52 GMT
compunction
\kuhm-PUHNK-shuhn\ , noun:
1. Anxiety or deep unease proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain.
2. A sting of conscience or a twinge of uneasiness; a qualm; a scruple.
Not only were tears one means of prayer, according to Benedict, they were the only pure form: "We must know that God regards our purity of heart and tears of compunction, not our many words." -- Tom Lutz, Crying
Yet, while Louise and Ruth and I and all our ilk are consumed by self-reproach, these two can recall not an ounce of compunction. -- Rose Shepherd, "Fatal egg by pleasure laid", Independent, September 3, 1996
If they succeeded, however, Sicily would simply come under the authority of the new revolutionary government in Naples, a government that would feel no compunctions whatsoever about saddling the island with even more "stamp duties, official papers, and forced labor" than before. -- James Fentress, Rebels and Mafiosi
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Post by Hunny on Aug 19, 2012 12:44:21 GMT
vicissitude
\vih-SIS-ih-tood; -tyood\ , noun:
1a- a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition <the vicissitudes of daily life>
1b- a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career, or a course of action
2. Alternation between opposite or contrasting things: "the vicissitude of the seasons".
3. the quality or state of being changeable : mutability
This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty.
Max had rescued his father's gold watch through every vicissitude, but as it didn't go I took it to a watchmaker.
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