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Word For The Day (General/Chat)

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  • Vanity - One down, Priebus, two to go....McConnell & Ryan.

    07/29/2017 9:00:10 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 38 replies
    Well..Priebus is gone, and now we will see if the House and Senate Republicans immediately fire both Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. You can blame McCain, Murkowsky & Collins for the Obamcare Repeal Failure, and, yes they are all turncoats & traitors to the American People and Republican caucus, but the real culprits are Ryan & McConnell. When a Democrat leader of either the House & Senate issues an edict on how will Senators vote on issue, every Democrat falls into line. Why? That is why they have leaders. Both McConnell and Ryan are not leaders, rather, they are weak...
  • Word For The Day - IMPRECATE

    07/28/2017 8:25:21 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 56 replies
    www.dictionary.com ^ | 07-28-2017 | Red Badger
    im·pre·cate ˈimprəˌkāt/ verb; archaic verb: imprecate; 3rd person present: imprecates; past tense: imprecated; past participle: imprecated; gerund or present participle: imprecating utter (a curse) or invoke (evil) against someone or something. Origin early 17th century: from Latin imprecat- ‘invoked,’ from the verb imprecari . I'm BACK! Had a rather serious MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT on July 4th and haven't been up to my old self for the last three weeks, but am feeling much better now. Road Rash on both arms, left shoulder and left leg, mostly healed but still tender. Bruised ribs and hip, fractured shoulder blade still bothers me enough...
  • Vanity - Democrats should stand alone/isolated on "Obamacare" implosion.

    07/28/2017 7:42:53 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 63 replies
    Hints for the day: McConnell, Ryan & Preibus must go...right now. Let the Democrats stand 100% alone...and let Obamacare do its thing, self -destruct. Obamacare will implode and the Demoicrat Party will kill itself off. If McConnell & Ryan play footsies with the Democrats, I can assure you, the Democrats will get everything they want, heading to a "single payer" government run healthcare system & full blown socialism. As for traitors, McCain, Murkowsky & Collins......pay them no mind whatsoever.....their political careers are finished and, they will flame out on their own with no help needed from us. We, the people...
  • Vanity - Democrat & Republican Establishment must be defeated & disgraced.

    07/27/2017 8:07:50 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 21 replies
    Our federal government is no longer workable. The Congress, Senate & House are filled with political cronies, full of themselves with ego, greed, power, ill will, hate, envy and little concern or care for the average American or, fact, the country itself. Come the 2018 Mid Term Elections, the American voter, less the cheating Democrat fraud and illegal voters, should dispatch both Democrats and Republican Establishment types to an acid filled cesspool where they all belong. Make America Free Again. Politically destroy the entire Democrat Party which, by the way, is lost at sea and is as crooked as Al...
  • Word for the Day, Thursday, July 27, 2017 - Bumfuzzle

    07/27/2017 5:47:47 AM PDT · by tioga · 26 replies
    Dictionary.com ^ | Thursday | tioga
    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". BumfuzzleVerb, [buhm-fuhz-uh l] To confuse or fluster. 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. Amuse me or enlighten me to earn extra credit. Get busy!
  • WORD FOR THE DAY: CORNADA

    07/26/2017 4:07:45 AM PDT · by Louis Foxwell · 14 replies
    OXFORD ^ | 7/26/17
    ; 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". cornada [kore NA da]hear it pronounced adjective ; 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". (gobemouch) [phonetic]hear it pronounced adjective cornada, the wound made by a bull horn. Not an injury inflicted by an Antifa hand-held loudspeaker, but, literally, a gore by a raging bull, typically occurring in a bull fighting arena. The word...
  • Word for the Day, Tuesday July 25, 2017

    07/25/2017 5:25:58 AM PDT · by SoothingDave · 8 replies
    Word For The Day, Tuesday July 25, 2017 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". highfalutin [hahy-fuh-loot-n] -adjpompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.[1830-40; high + falutin (perhaps orig. flutin, variant of fluting, present participle of flute )]
  • Vanity - Vote "YES" To move Obamacare Repeal & Replace today.

    07/25/2017 4:35:24 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 16 replies
    Today the Senate will cast their votes on a bill that will allow open debate on the Repeal & Replacement of the failed, Obamacare health bill. Every one of the 100 Senators should cast a "Yes" vote to move this bill to open debate and amendments. That includes Republican, Senators, Rand Paul/Susan Collins and, every Democrat Senator in the Senate. Even seriously ailing Republican, Senator, John McCain is returning to Washington, DC to cast a "Yea" vote. Any Senator that does cast a "Yes" vote for moving this debate along, means they continue to support the failed Obamacare "monster". We,...
  • Vanity - McCain & Mueller must go.

    07/21/2017 7:38:02 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 44 replies
    John McCain, after making a statement proclaiming publicly, that he will return to the Senate to remain with his friends and to continue to hate, envy, taunt and harass his enemies, is neither sound of mind or body. This gent is now living in "Looney Tunesville" 100%, through no fault of his own (Cancer has destroyed him). McCain has already amply demonstrated for all to see, he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. The good Governor of Arizona needs to declare McCain unfit to serve his office and immediately replace him with Ms. Kelly Ward. POTUS, Donald J....
  • WORD FOR THE DAY: TRADUCE

    07/18/2017 7:33:22 PM PDT · by Louis Foxwell · 29 replies
    2000 MOST CHALLENGING AND OBSCURE WORDS | 7/19/17 | Norman Schur
    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". TRADUCE [truh DOOHS; DYOOHS]hear it pronounced verb To traduce someone is to slander him, vilify him, malign, defame, and calumniate him, speak falsely and with malice toward him or his character; from Latin traducere (to disgrace), a variant of transducere (literally, to carry over; figuratively, to expose, "show up").In Shakespeare's Othello (Act V, Scene 2) Othello cries to Lodovico who has come to arrest him:...in Allepo once, Where a malignant and turban'd TurkBeat a...
  • Word for the Day, Tuesday July 18, 2017

    07/18/2017 7:31:23 AM PDT · by SoothingDave · 15 replies
    Word For The Day, Tuesday July 18, 2017 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". ovine [oh-vahyn, oh-vin] -adjpertaining to, of the nature of, or like sheep.[1820-30; < Late Latin ovīnus, equivalent to Latin ov(is) sheep + -īnus -ine]
  • Vanity - McConnell & Ryan must go, like right now.

    07/18/2017 12:43:32 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 23 replies
    Short & Sweet.....Mitch McConnell & Paul Ryan must either, resign their leadership posts or, be voted out by the GOP Caucus. These anti-Trump, low life, do nothing, incompetents, should lose their jobs "TODAY"!!! We sent them to Washington to support our POTUS (Trump). They have done no such thing!!! When Congress convened on January 3, 2017 Both McConnell & Ryan should have had healthcare legislation 100% ready to be voted on, repealing Obamacare. They had nothing, because they thought life would be fine with Hillary Clinton as POTUS!!! You know what they are, these two buffoons, traitors to the POTUS,...
  • Word for the Day, Monday, July 17, 2017-- maleficent

    07/17/2017 6:22:09 AM PDT · by xsmommy · 35 replies
    7/17/17 | xs
    Word For The Day, Monday, 7/17/17 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". maleficent; adj. adjective 1. doing evil or harm; harmfully malicious: maleficent destroyers of reputations. Etymology: adj. 1670s, from Latin maleficent-, altered stem of maleficus (see malefic ). 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.......
  • Vanity - Democrat Party will collapse in 2018.

    07/15/2017 8:35:06 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 54 replies
    I predicted the Trump POTUS victory from the day Trump announced his candidacy. I predicted that the industrial "blue collar" union folks would go massively for Trump, they did, I said Trump would get over three hundred electoral votes, he did. I now predict the Democrat Party will lose between 8-10 Senate seats and, 12-20 House seats in the upcoming 2018 Mid-Term elections. The Senate losses could even be larger. If the attempts to repeal Obamacare fail and Senate Democrats do not support the Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare, the Democrat Party will lose Senate seats in Florida, Virginia, West...
  • Word for the Day, FRiday, July 14, 2017 - Fete

    07/14/2017 7:54:08 AM PDT · by tioga · 16 replies
    Dictionary.com ^ | FRiday | tioga
    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". FeteNoun, [feyt, fet] A day of celebration, a holiday. A festive celebration or entertainment. A religious feast or festival. Also a verb: To entertain or honor at a fete.
  • Vanity - Obama, Lynch & Natalia Veselnitskaya....what a team!!!

    07/13/2017 8:25:20 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 7 replies
    Lookee here, Lookee here, American people: Setup by Obama, Clinton, Lynch and the Democrat party to trap Trump, Jr. Obama & Media fail again!!! No words or story needed. Game over!!! This will now get quite dirty and destructive for the entire Democrat Party and their lockstep media!!! Lesson for the day..."never fire your gun until you have all the true facts"!!! Go Donald J. Trump...MAGA!!!
  • Word for the Day, Thursday, July 13, 2017 - Ameliorate

    07/13/2017 7:08:48 AM PDT · by tioga · 35 replies
    Dictionary.com ^ | Thursday | tioga
    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". AmeliorateVerb, [uh-meel-yuh-reyt, uh-mee-lee-uh-] To make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve: strategies to ameliorate negative effects on the environment. 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. Amuse me or enlighten me to earn extra credit.
  • Word For The Day: PARRHESIA

    07/12/2017 3:02:03 AM PDT · by Louis Foxwell · 44 replies
    2000 MOST CHALLENGING AND OBSCURE WORDS | 7/12/17 | Norman Schur
    ; 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". parrhesia [pa REE syuh, zyuh]hear it pronounced noun Parrhesia is boldness of speech, in oratorical rhetoric, i.e., the art of influencing an audience, parrhesia, in the words of William Safire (On Language, in the NYT magazine of Oct 21, 1984), "has a specialized meaning: 'warning of potential offense, and asking pardon in advance.'" The expression with all due respect is an example of parrhesia. What it really means is, "I haven't the slightest...
  • Word for the Day, Monday, July 10, 2017 -- propitiate

    07/10/2017 6:22:46 AM PDT · by xsmommy · 32 replies
    7/10/17 | xs
    Word For The Day, Monday, 7/10/17 ; 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". propitiate; transitive verb to appease or make well disposed; conciliate Etymology: 1580s, a back-formation from propritiation and in part from propitiate (adj.), from Latin propitiatus, past participle of propitiare "appease, propitiate" (see propitiation ). Related: Propitiated ; propitiating ; propitiatingly ; propitiable (1550s). Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the...
  • Vanity - NYC Mayor, DeBlasio should be thrown out of office immediately.

    07/07/2017 4:28:46 PM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 28 replies
    New York City "Democrat" "Socialist", "Communist" Mayor, DeBlasio should be thrown out of office, immediately by the citizens & voters of NYC. His hidden trip to Hamburg, Germany to openly address the violent, rioters in Hamburg is disgusting by itself...but, with the brutal murder of an innocent NYC police officer, a 42 year old mom, with three young children....and DeBlasio skipping out of town and not attending a graduation of new NYC police cadets in this mourning period, is inexcusable and unforgivable. NYC...have you no heart, no consideration for this hero mom, her family, her children, and the new cops...