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Word for the Day, Monday, August 3, 2015-- screed
8/3/15 | xs

Posted on 08/03/2015 5:06:07 AM PDT by xsmommy

Word For The Day, Monday, 8/3/15

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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".

screed; noun/verb noun 1. a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.

2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.

3. Building Trades. a.a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface. b.a wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like. c.a board or metal strip dragged across a freshly poured concrete slab to give it its proper level.

4. British Dialect. a fragment or shred, as of cloth.

5. Scot. a.a tear or rip, especially in cloth. b.a drinking bout. verb (used with object), verb (used without object) 6. Scot. to tear, rip, or shred, as cloth.

Etymology: n.

early 14c., "fragment," also "strip of cloth," from northern England dialectal variant of Old English screade (see shred (n.)). Meaning "lengthy speech" is first recorded 1789, from notion of reading from a long list.

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....




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To: SoothingDave

Before you say it-yes I know I’m being a hardass bitch on the subject, but that is the way I am-I don’t even think there should be any “foreign aid” from our tax dollars-that is what we give to charities for-and there are people right here who should get the help from churches and other charities before any foreign country does-I don’t give any of what little I have to any charity that sends it out of the US.


41 posted on 08/03/2015 2:30:17 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

All I’m saying is that the fashionable outrage will hurt the poor minorities.


42 posted on 08/03/2015 2:58:16 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Fashionable outrage-which is mostly liberal-always has done that-women and minorities hardest hit-they are probably used to it by now...


43 posted on 08/03/2015 3:36:09 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: MoochPooch

that was an excellent satirical piece! A++++


44 posted on 08/04/2015 5:05:15 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5

A++++ if I were a dem i’d go for joking Joe over Hillary. That being said, I saw my first I heart Hillary bumper sticker when pulling into my garage at work this AM>


45 posted on 08/04/2015 5:08:24 AM PDT by xsmommy
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