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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 19, 2012 13:00:45 GMT
Tough words to work into sentences.......
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Post by Hunny on Aug 19, 2012 13:10:53 GMT
Tough words to work into sentences....... Well, yea, but you can run into these when reading..so it's good to know what they mean.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 20, 2012 12:33:16 GMT
logorrhea
\law-guh-REE-uh\ , noun:
1. Pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
2. Incessant or compulsive talkativeness.
By his own measure, he is a man of many contradictions, beginning with the fact that he is famous as a listener but suffers from "a touch of logorrhea." He is so voluble that one wonders how his subjects get a word in edgewise.
Mr. King, who possesses an enviable superabundance of imagination, suffers from a less enviable logorrhea.
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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 20, 2012 14:48:01 GMT
That sounds like something that needs penicillin.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 22, 2012 10:52:28 GMT
That sounds like something that needs penicillin. lol, or imodium ;D
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Post by Hunny on Aug 22, 2012 10:56:51 GMT
Here's a tough one. It has four distinctly different meanings.
hieratic
\ hahy-uh-RAT-ik \ , adjective;
1. Highly restrained or severe in emotional import: Some of the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.
2. Also, hi·er·at·i·cal. of or pertaining to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
3. Noting or pertaining to a form of ancient Egyptian writing consisting of abridged forms of hieroglyphics, used by the priests in their records.
4. Noting or pertaining to certain styles in art in which the representations or methods are fixed by or as if by religious tradition.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 23, 2012 11:32:02 GMT
velleity
\vuh-LEE-i-tee\ , noun:
1. A mere wish, unaccompanied by an effort to obtain it.
2. Volition in its weakest form.
Fortunately it did no more than stress, the better to mock if you like, an innate velleity.
My guess is that instead of being men of decision we are in reality men of velleity.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 24, 2012 13:14:00 GMT
ebullient
<ih-BUHL-yuhnt> adjective
1. overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
2. bubbling up like a boiling liquid.
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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 24, 2012 16:17:56 GMT
Ok....ebullient.....definitely knew that one.....the other two I'm not even sure I can say them........why does velleity sound like a fabric???
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Post by Hunny on Aug 25, 2012 9:40:10 GMT
antic
Of course we all know this word as a noun...
(Usually, 'antics'): ~an attention-drawing often wildly playful or funny act or action ~A grotesque, fantastic, or ludicrous gesture, act, or posture. ~A playful trick or prank; caper.
But it can also be used as an adjective, to mean...
1. Ludicrous; funny. 2. Fantastic; odd; grotesque: an antic disposition.
"This was immediately granted, and we all three entered the gate of the palace between two rows of guards, armed and dressed after a very antic manner, and with something in their countenances that made my flesh creep with a horror I cannot express." -Gulliver's Travels
"I gritted my teeth at him, danced up and down, screaming an incoherent mockery and making antic faces."
"He found him so elevated with his success, so enamored with his daughter, and so satisfied with her reception of him, that the old gentleman began to caper and dance about his hall, and by many other antic actions to express the extravagance of his joy; for he had not the least command over any of his passions; and that which had at any time the ascendant in his mind hurried him to the wildest excesses."
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Post by Hunny on Aug 26, 2012 12:42:05 GMT
fabulist
\ FAB-yuh-list \ , noun;
1. A liar.
2. A person who invents or relates fables.
"But at the same time, for fear of disruption and uncertainty, we attempt to relegate the maker's role to that of fabulist , equating fiction with lies and opposing art to political reality..." -- Alberto Manguel, The Voice of Cassandra
"Nothing is off limits to this free-range fabulist. He can fold a dusty Persian carpet into the contours of the world itself and wring delight from every lustrous thread." -- Clive Barker, The Essential Clive Barker
ORIGIN: Fabulist is derived from the Middle French word fabuliste which referred to someone who told fables.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 27, 2012 17:36:55 GMT
venal
\VEE-nuhl\ , adjective:
1. Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; held for sale; salable; purchasable.
2. Capable of being corrupted.
3. Marked by or associated with bribery and corrupt dealings.
The news items accumulate to project an image of French politics as venal, power-mongering, and posing a crazy threat to all those values of humanity and civilization that Picasso's work had always embraced. -- Rosalind E. Krauss, The Picasso Papers
While the enemy in Vietnam was mysterious and, to some Americans, heroic, America's allies in Saigon seemed venal and corrupt, more interested in graft than in combat and unable to rally their people behind a common cause or to create an effective military force. -- Charles E. Neu, After Vietnam
Magistrates were expected to supplement their modest incomes, in theory from personal fortunes, in reality from a variety of venal practices. -- Michelle De Kretser, The Rose Grower
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Post by Hunny on Aug 28, 2012 13:40:22 GMT
indomitable
\in-DOM-ih-tuh-buhl\ , adjective:
Incapable of being subdued or overcome; unconquerable.
"Now, late in his career, when he could no longer pull off all of the individual moves that had once set him apart, it had become increasingly obvious that what had distinguished him was his indomitable will, his refusal to let either opposing players or the passage of time affect his need to win."
"Because of his strength and toughness as well as his constant attention to the welfare of his army, his soldiers affectionately called him Old Hickory. Hickory was as tough a substance as they knew, and General Andrew Jackson was, in their minds, indomitable."
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Post by Hunny on Aug 29, 2012 13:51:16 GMT
vitiate
\VISH-ee-ayt\ , transitive verb
1. To make faulty or imperfect; to render defective; to impair; as, "exaggeration vitiates a style of writing."
2. To corrupt morally; to debase.
3. To render ineffective; as, "fraud vitiates a contract."
MacNelly is one of the few contemporary political cartoonists who can use humor to accentuate, not vitiate, his points.
It seems churlish to say of a book that is beautifully written, richly allusive, learned, elegant, Proustian in tone and mode, that precisely these qualities vitiate its ostensible purpose, distracting attention from the subject and focusing it upon the very gifted author.
..the comic impact is vitiated by obvious haste.
..a mind vitiated by prejudice.
..the impact of the film vitiated by poor acting.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 30, 2012 16:21:58 GMT
arcane
\ar-KAYN\ , adjective:
Understood or known by only a few.
"There are other arcane traditions that seem like superstitions to us, or, perhaps, are simply lost in translation. Some cyclists, for instance, believe that riders should shower instead of bathe because in some way water weight from baths is absorbed."
"While addressing a problem in the arcane field of mathematical logic, he imagined a machine that could mimic human reasoning."
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Post by Hunny on Aug 31, 2012 13:41:53 GMT
cogitate
\KOJ-uh-tayt\ , intransitive verb:
1. To think deeply or intently; to ponder; to meditate.
2. To think about; to ponder on; to plan or plot.
As she waited in the prison anteroom to be admitted, Bitsey read background file clippings from NEWS Magazine's morgue and cogitated on the idea of knowing one's exact date of death beforehand.
Doc Leach shifted his pipe from one corner of his mouth to the other and blinked a couple of times. That meant he was cogitating.
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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 31, 2012 18:48:51 GMT
Sounds more like what my washing machine does!
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Post by Hunny on Sept 1, 2012 15:40:07 GMT
truncate
\TRUHNG-keyt\ , verb:
1. To shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
2. Mathematics, Computers. To shorten (a number) by dropping a digit or digits: The numbers 1.4142 and 1.4987 can both be truncated to 1.4.
He pointed out that it was relatively easy to pronounce, though there was the danger that Americans, obsessed with abbreviation, would truncate it to Nick.
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Post by sadie1263 on Sept 1, 2012 22:14:01 GMT
Hmmm....don't see myself working that one into a sentence anytime soon.....
Do you know what a Dybbuk is?
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Post by Hunny on Sept 2, 2012 2:01:34 GMT
Hmmm....don't see myself working that one into a sentence anytime soon..... Do you know what a Dybbuk is? No, I had to look that up. (as I've had to look all these words up) I think I've had one of those before, though. My evil brother (oh yes, I have one of those) (he thinks he's a witch) I think someone should truncate his, uh...well, you know ;D
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