Posted on 10/28/2009 7:38:30 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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".
luculent • \LOO-kyuh-lunt\ • adjective 
clear in thought or expression; lucid
Example sentence:
"I have heard, for example, a luculent description of poor Allister Campbell, and another drudge of the same class, running a race after dinner for a new pair of breeches." (John G. Lockhart, Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott)
Did you know?
To shed light on the meaning of "luculent," one need only look at its root -- the Latin noun "lux," meaning "light." The English word first appeared in the 15th century with the meaning "brilliant" or "shining," as in "a luculent flame." By the mid-16th century, the "clear in thought or expression" sense had begun to shine, and by that century's end another sense was flickering with the meaning "illustrious" or "resplendent" (as in Ben Jonson's 1599 description of a "most debonair and luculent lady"). Both the "illustrious" and the "emitting light" sense have fallen out of use, and even the "clear" sense is now rare. (When it does appear, it is typically in humorous contexts in which the writer is intentionally choosing obscure words.) Today's writers seem to prefer another "lux" descendant with a similar meaning: "lucid."
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.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
While the media loves him for his cowardly sniping at an ex-girlfriend's mother, Levi Johnston is anything but a luculent spokesman for their vitriol; W, on the other hand, shows his luculence and surprises a skeptical Saskatoon audience with his charm, humility, and sincerity.
Quotes: Levi Johnston's Interview With CBS News
Bush vindicated during visit to city
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Only 
days left until BO's replacement is sworn in.
Former Cowboys' Linebacker Dixon Edwards would like to remind everybody there's only 
days until Christmas!
Get to class you slackers!
Way too much of the four-letter word today. Try not to burn down the classroom.
Only days until Christmas!
Antonym: Pelosi
I was cleaning out my dryer’s filter,
and decided to talk to it.
I said “luculent, why do you build up so much?”
It didn’t respond.
You’re luculent that we don’t beat you up for being so tardy.
Certain unnamed welding engineers who are refusing to support the field are lights-out illluculent and (apparently) completely illiterate too!
The swine flu brouhaha is turbulent
Is the danger for real, or just fraudulent?
With all the lying and storming
About fake global warming
I’m awaiting some facts that are luculent
LOL!
The word ‘luculent’ and the phrase ‘Obama’s thought processes’ are oxymoronic.
But “you never want to let a crisis go to waste”.
i think the real reason this word fell out of favor was because queensryche couldn’t work out the meter for their song, ‘silent luculentity.’
Barry’s writings - they’re hardly luculent
His pronouncements, in fact, very truculent.
But to those on the Right
Who are eager to fight,
The target environment’s succulent.
It is luculent that it is autumn when I have chickadees crowding the bird feeder.
Lu lost a bundel on Lucent stock.
in case you miss it.........read the first letters only of each line......
it took me quite awhile to find that in there!
it even has his “accent” ..........LOL
I happened to catch Hannity last night and noticed a Romney on one of his panels.......he was Mitt’s son, right? So now we have McCain’s bOOb of a daughter and a Romney appearing as Republican talking heads?
Which one was it? He has 5 sons.
Took me a while to get it too.
Finally Arnold does something not girly manish.
I have no idea which son it was, just noticed it said romney across the bottom of the screen.
But Romney’s sons are handsome and Meaghan McCain is...
Handsome?
8<)(Robt is late for bed.... Goes nity-night from central europe time zone. DST ended early over here.)
"I don't want to hear about Fox News," Imus said. "Nobody says anything about CNN or MSNBC. They have opinion programs and they have news. The news is pretty good on both of them, and it's pretty good on Fox." But one comment Imus made, and has been said by other Fox commentators, is that the President has managed to dedicate resources to taking on Fox News, but has been vague on how he plans to handle the war in Afghanistan. "Because the President is a whiny little titty baby and a girly man and doesn't have enough guts to figure out what to do in Afghanistan, he's going to take on, what - Fox News and get his ass kicked there?" Imus said. "There has got to be some reason that Fox has 10 times as many listeners that all of them. Somebody must think it is news."
Mitt Romney’s sons are all handsome. Meaghan McCain is (fill in the blank).
Is this guy ever luculent?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373270/posts
Obama the Wise? How about that for an epithet (yesterday’s word)?
After posting so much on Monday’s thread, my right arm became a luculent appendage.
It looked like a baseball pitcher’s arm after pitching one too many innings. Fast ball was 65 MPH, elbow wouldn’t even let me pitch a sinker. Got the umps luculent appendage(s).
We like your sinkers anyway....)
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