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Word for the Day, Monday, September 21, 2015-- bereft
9/21/15 | xs

Posted on 09/21/2015 5:38:31 AM PDT by xsmommy

Word For The Day, Monday, 9/21/15

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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".

bereft; adj.

simple past tense and past participle of bereave. adjective 2. deprived: They are bereft of their senses. He is bereft of all happinessverb (used with object), bereaved or bereft, bereaving. 1. to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.

2. to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by of): The war bereaved them of their home.

3. Obsolete. to take away by violence.

Etymology: before 900; Middle English bereven, Old English berēafian; cognate with Dutch berooven, German berauben, Gothic biraubōn. See be-, reave1

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: NeoCaveman

will report back with his comments after the visit, which I am eagerly awaiting.


41 posted on 09/21/2015 10:53:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I don’t even try. To quote Trump about Obama, he can defend himself.


42 posted on 09/21/2015 10:58:12 AM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy

the comments, not the visit!


43 posted on 09/21/2015 10:59:06 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Yes, and the news hawks revel in every statement he makes to sow dissent within the church. They never analyze his perspective and they always surmise conclusions further than what he has stated.


44 posted on 09/21/2015 11:03:18 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Like the article said, menace or farce? he’s either malevolent or less than bright.


45 posted on 09/21/2015 11:17:17 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: RikaStrom
Just saw this on my tweeter feed....


46 posted on 09/21/2015 11:17:26 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

(sigh)

I absolutely loathe that man, he is bereft of common sense, and as much as I hate to mention the looks of someone, he looks like he’s inbred. Eww, I just don’t like him.


47 posted on 09/21/2015 11:46:50 AM PDT by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: RikaStrom

Don’t ever change, Rika.


48 posted on 09/21/2015 12:18:03 PM PDT by NicknamedBob ("Australia: Every animal is one of three types: Dangerous, Poisonous, or sheep." Rorschach's Blot)
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To: xsmommy

The pope is blissfully bereft of the knowledge of how communism coerces and threatens people-probably doesn’t even care that Castro paid people for a day’s work and gave them food to show up and line the streets when Francis came to town...

Hillary Clinton seems to be
Bereft of sense and reason-
She keeps making jokes about
What might border on treason

Wiping servers with a cloth
And messages that disappear-
Those attempts at humor and
Flashing the driveby a sneer

Any time she gets cornered-
And just like way back when
The Cobra queen acts as though
The WH were still her den..


49 posted on 09/21/2015 12:29:33 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: afraidfortherepublic; xsmommy

I’ve come to the conclusion that this pope is totally corrupted from living in a socialist/communist country, and may well be numbered among those who were considered apostate...

I just went to confession Saturday, but with the way I disagree and wish he would go back to Rome, I should probably be confessing every other day...


50 posted on 09/21/2015 12:39:19 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: tioga

Rumor: Scott Walker is dropping out.


51 posted on 09/21/2015 1:13:39 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: Travis T. OJustice; xsmommy; tioga; NicknamedBob; SoothingDave

The French dog ate his master’s soft hat .... Yes, he was truly beretfed of headgear.


52 posted on 09/21/2015 1:16:20 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: RikaStrom

Jeb on the wrong side of immigration, common core and gun rights. He makes me cringe.


53 posted on 09/21/2015 2:10:17 PM PDT by tioga
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To: NeoCaveman

Wow. I had bigger hopes for him, but I haven’t liked his positions too many times.


54 posted on 09/21/2015 2:10:52 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Texan5

A +++ great job!


55 posted on 09/21/2015 3:31:05 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I am bereft that it looks like yet again I will be forced to vote for the person who makes me projectile vomit the least.
( hope you have recovered from being sick)


56 posted on 09/21/2015 4:57:06 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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