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Word For The Day, Thursday, June 21, 2012 - divulse
dictionaries ad nauseam | 21 June 2012 | Thursday's sub

Posted on 06/21/2012 4:49:30 AM PDT by secret garden


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".

divulse \dahy-VUHLS\, verb
To tear away or apart.

Example sentences:
A perforation having been so made, it is safer to divulse the opening rather than to enlarge it by cutting in order to avoid the possibility of opening a blood vessel in an inaccessible region.
-- Eugene Fuller, M.D., The Journal of the American Medical Association

Even if you are the kooper of the winkel over measure never lost a license. Nor a duckindonche divulse from bath and breakfast.
-- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Etymology:
Divulse comes from the Latin root vellere meaning "plucked". The prefix di- is a variation of dis- before the letter v meaning "apart" or "away", as in disown.

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

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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To: NeoCaveman

He left us too soon. A+ for you.


21 posted on 06/21/2012 6:57:53 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I think the shift will continue now that the curtain has been lifted. A+ for you.


22 posted on 06/21/2012 6:59:19 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: count-your-change

You’re always taking the fresh look. A for you.


23 posted on 06/21/2012 7:00:12 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden
Obama never has had trouble divulsing money. He spent tax payer money that he didn't have. In May he spent more than he took in in contributions to his cause. I hope he has untold debt when he leaves office, since this country will.

Obama's bank balance stays flat in May.

24 posted on 06/21/2012 7:02:07 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: xsmommy
Live blog site for SCOTUS decisions. already posting.
25 posted on 06/21/2012 7:12:01 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: secret garden

Obama the Uniter, divulse
The left and the right, I convulse
With laughter, not glee
At the hypocrisy
The body politic has nary a pulse


26 posted on 06/21/2012 7:15:35 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Bill Clinton & Cory Booker committed the ultimate democrat gaffe. They accidentally told the truth.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

SCOTUS ruled on a union case. Must opt-in, not out? Should be more in the media soon.


27 posted on 06/21/2012 7:16:38 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

the case is about union dues.


28 posted on 06/21/2012 7:18:23 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Asystole. No shock advised.


29 posted on 06/21/2012 7:23:28 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: secret garden

He was reduced to divulsions upon hearing the news report..


30 posted on 06/21/2012 7:23:28 AM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: secret garden

In Wisconsin both the Teachers’ Unions and the Public Sector Unions have lost more than half their members since the Walker reforms went into effect. Furthermore, those unions have had to dismiss half of their highly paid, permanent staffs.


31 posted on 06/21/2012 7:31:23 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: secret garden; xsmommy; tioga; Texan5; SoothingDave

Yeppers.

Obama’s slimy ABCNNBCBS media is de first, de last, and devulst thing to both cause, and to come from, the current despots and autocrats in Washington.

Just a few more days in Spain. Then home.


32 posted on 06/21/2012 7:58:41 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

So, does the rain in Spain fall mainly on the plain?


33 posted on 06/21/2012 8:10:43 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: tioga

A+ for you. He has all that money received for books he didn’t write and she got considerably overpaid for a fake job. No pity here.


34 posted on 06/21/2012 8:22:39 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

A+ for you. I am going to love this election season because we finally have someone who really wants the job and is willing to do what it takes.


35 posted on 06/21/2012 8:24:26 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: Darksheare

A for you.


36 posted on 06/21/2012 8:28:35 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Even though my mouth is sore from yesterday’s dental adventures, I grinned widely reading your post. That is good news.


37 posted on 06/21/2012 8:30:04 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

A for you. Travel safely.


38 posted on 06/21/2012 8:34:29 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

while i am gratified that Romney is going with guns blazing, i can’t say i am going to LOVE the election season, it’s far too nervewracking. i was behind a car pulling into my parking garage yesterday that had TWO “I SUPPORT PRESIDENT OBAMA” bumperstickers, an OBAMA 2012 bumper sticker and assorted other local political stickers one for Tim Kaine, dem of VA. Now you can say that it’s different where you live and that’s true, but TN is not going to win the election for Romney, whereas VA is pivotal, and the nutball with all of those bumperstickers had VA plates. i hope against hope that people know what is going on. I talked with a colleague yesterday here who voted for Obams but he’s not a leftist nutball. He said that Obams wasn’t all he was cracked up to be, and that he really didn’t care if he was re-elected. I suppose i should ask if he will vote for him again. we spoke of the dreck on both sides and i said, Mike, you are a grownup, you know NO ONE is all that and 10 bags of chips in life, so why were you taken in by the cult of personality. he had no answer for me.


39 posted on 06/21/2012 8:38:16 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

Agreed — BHO is an asystole....


40 posted on 06/21/2012 8:47:56 AM PDT by mikrofon (Creative Daffinition ;)
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