;Posted on 10/24/2016 6:33:00 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word for The Day, Monday, 10/24/16
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
compunction; noun
1.
a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse.
2. any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action
Etymology: 1350-1400; Middle English compunccion (< Anglo-French) < Late Latin compūnctiōn- (stem of compūnctiō), equivalent to Latin compūnct (us), past participle of compungere to prick severely ( com- com- + pungere to prick; cf. point ) + -iōn- -ion
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
I’ve never been there-just to Quebec, Montreal, and other places where MrT5 had relatives-I always wanted to visit those Viking sites in Newfoundland, too but we never got there.
I’m not sure there will be a “safe” place in any state Hitlery has her harpy claws into, if it comes to that-if my state does not secede and the revolution does not come, I’ll be seriously considering making arrangements through friends, packing up my cats, my stuff, loading the 4x4 and a U-Haul and heading toward Del Rio, where I have friends...
I’m surprised Hillary and Bill haven’t had that Donald Duck photo erased from existence...
Chelsea has the misfortune of being one of the most unattractive women around-there is not enough lipstick at an entire cosmetic counter to change that...
I’ve never been to Mexico so my earlier opinion was based on what you had posted.
Good luck to you if you go——because of my age it’s too late for me to move.
I’ve lived in MA for 84 years and survived so I’m fairly inured to the nonsense.
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I think the pic was posted to Hillary’s twitter on Father’s day. Foolish woman.
But Nixon’s impeachment “pressure” occurred ONLY AFTER 5 years of his administration, AFTER 19 years of solid anti-Nixon propaganda by the Communists. (Since his HUAC committee hearings, he saw their target once McCarthy was brought down by their propaganda.)
The Washington Post and NY Times were running 18 months of near-continuous daily stories against Nixon.
that is excellent. thanks.
She’s not foolish-she’s just so conceited she thinks everything about her is cool-even a witless photo op like that one-just the way she dresses shows how clueless she is...
I hope most fervently that it will not be so terrible I have to leave-most of my ancestors came to Texas in the late 1700’s and the family has been here ever since...
“most of my ancestors came to Texas in the late 1700’s and the family has been here ever since...
That’s incredible-—we are Famine Irish in the Boston area——newcomers. :-)
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The ancestors who came from Spain first were young men-adventurers and soldiers from the Spanish Pyrenees-they brought our family surname with them-and like pretty much most Basques, they were at odds with the Spanish government-likely to be hanged if they stayed there-so they left, came to the New World, settled some land, found women to marry-most probably Native/Indian women, since they were not Spanish nobility, became ranchers and herders of sheep and goats, breeders of horses like they were in Spain-a large part of my family still ranches in SW Texas and New Mexico-and we still have that Basque rebel attitude...
There are old Irish families in Texas whose ancestors came here by way of Mexico in the late 1700’s-early 1800’s-mixed Latino/Irish ancestry is common both here and in Mexico.
Like we used to be in cold war foreign policy:
Yes, he’s an asshole, but he’s our asshole.
That’s the best argument we have
send me pix!
I never started watching TWD but I do watch “fear the walking dead” - I know, it makes no sense
Compunction junction, what’s your function? :-)
You watching Westworld?
Working out of town today. No new thread.
forgot to grade this, it was excellent, A++++
just saw this, I will do one.
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