Word Of The Day

[Hunny]

'expeditious' VERSUS 'expedient'

EXPEDITIOUS \ek-spuh-DISH-uhs\ , adjective:

Characterized by or acting with speed and efficiency.

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EXPEDIENT\ek-spee-dee-uhnt\ , adjective:

a regard for what is politic or advantageous rather than
for what is right or just; a sense of self-interest;
characterized by concern with what is opportune.



Both these words mean to hurry something through a process to its completion,
but one means to do so by efficiency, and the other means to do so by or for impropriety



"The proceedings included the disposition of eight indictments,
all of which were settled in an expeditious manner."

"They found it expedient to negotiate with the terrorists."

[Hunny]

bumptious

\BUMP-shuhs\ , adjective:

Crudely, presumptuously, or loudly self-assertive.

Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.

Still a tremendous singer and a man so confident of his own sex appeal that he could make
the most outrageously bumptious behaviour seem not only engaging but also entirely natural.

Wells did not meet his father until he was an adult, by which time
he had developed his own blunt, sometimes bumptious personality.

[Hunny]

puerile

\ PYOOR-ihl\ , adjective:

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; juvenile; childish.


And, in one of the most puerile episodes of his adult career, he punishes his old schoolmates
for being rich and vulgar by breaking into their houses to soak the labels off their boasted wine collections.


Political argument is becoming a puerile cartoon about the moral . . . doing battle with the immoral.

[Hunny]

vapid

\VAP-id\ , adjective:

1. Lacking liveliness and spirit; unanimated; spiritless; dull; as, "a vapid speech."

2. Flavorless; lacking taste or zest; flat; as, "vapid beer."

One year he was writing vapid and sentimental mediocrities, and
the next he was turning out one of the best poems of our century.


In his coverage of the first 800 years of Russian architecture
he resorts to a prose of vapid enthusiasms; too many buildings are
described like this, about a country palace: "a breathtaking masterpiece
that fairly shimmered with Baroque splendor."

[Hunny]

foment

\foh-MENT; FOH-ment\ , verb:

To nurse to life or activity; to incite; to abet; to instigate; -- often in a bad sense.


Cynical politicians may even foment conflicts among groups to advance their own power.


Here, over many cups of coffee and other brews, John Adams, James Otis,
and Paul Revere met to foment rebellion, prompting Daniel Webster to
call it "the headquarters of the Revolution."


Having burned to taste the foment of the sixties, I romanticized Diego's experience of it.

[Hunny]

bloviate

\BLOH-vee-ayt\ , intransitive verb:

To speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.

Anyone who has ever spent an idle morning watching the Washington
talk shows has probably wondered: how did these people become entitled
to earn six-figure salaries bloviating about the week's headlines?


After five years as president and thirty years as a political figure, this
colossal oaf is still unable to discipline his urge to . . . bloviate.


We follow him minute by minute through a day in his office -- bloviating amiably
with colleagues on the telephone, letting his secretary rewrite his clumsy
letters and worrying about the possible hatred of his subordinates.

[sadie1263]

I love that word.......it just sounds cool to say

[Hunny]

temerity

unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition
: rashness, recklessness... reckless boldness

She had the temerity to ask my boyfriend if she could go out with him should he and I ever break up.

No one had the temerity to question his conclusions.

[Hunny]

fatuous

Silly and pointless.

Synonyms
foolish - goofy - witless - idiotic