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Word For The Day, Monday, 8/5/02
The Verbivores | 8/5/02 | Teacher

Posted on 08/05/2002 6:59:50 AM PDT by RikaStrom

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of 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....


minatory \MIN-uh-tor-ee\, adjective or minacious:
minatorial; adjective
minatorily or minaciously; adverb
minacity or minaciousness; noun

1. Threatening; menacing.
2. Of a menacing or threatening nature; minacious

[H]e was often observed peeping through the bars of a gate and making minatory gestures with his small forefinger while he scolded the sheep with an inarticulate burr, intended to strike terror into their astonished minds.
--George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Etymology: Late Latin minatorius, from Latin minari to threaten . Date: 1532



TOPICS: Education; Humor; Word For The Day
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To: hobbes1; SeaDragon
Sea likes her cupacakes fresh . . .
121 posted on 08/05/2002 9:04:35 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: Argh

you and i both have green eyes....

122 posted on 08/05/2002 9:04:37 AM PDT by christine
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To: christine11
cupacakes? Christine's posts are killing me here.
123 posted on 08/05/2002 9:05:28 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: christine11
wait just a sec, miss chris, i have green eyes too!
124 posted on 08/05/2002 9:07:36 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: *Students
Love-Making Woman Devoured by Lion

oh dear

125 posted on 08/05/2002 9:08:03 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: christine11
Cyber has green eyes, also. I'm borrowing your eye. Is that okay? Wink, wink . . .


126 posted on 08/05/2002 9:08:13 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: RikaStrom
Good thing there are plenty of fish in the Sea.


127 posted on 08/05/2002 9:09:49 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: RikaStrom
now what does it say about the class, when the teacher is the one bringing the lewd stuff to class....LOL!
128 posted on 08/05/2002 9:10:12 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
I don't know whether to be offended by that one or not.

Nadler of all people?

;-)

129 posted on 08/05/2002 9:12:20 AM PDT by SeaDragon
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To: RikaStrom; CholeraJoe; one_particular_harbour
I guess if you're in the bush, 'tis better to have goats and sheep around you.
130 posted on 08/05/2002 9:12:59 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: xsmommy
LOL
131 posted on 08/05/2002 9:15:21 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: Slip18
Like the other thread said, you don't have to be faster than the lion, just faster than your partner! LOL
132 posted on 08/05/2002 9:15:45 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: RikaStrom
Do you think this bottle is minacious, Miss Rika?
133 posted on 08/05/2002 9:15:47 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: Slip18; RikaStrom
That's what happens when you don't get deep enough in the bush. The woman gets eaten and taken away.
134 posted on 08/05/2002 9:16:27 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: Slip18
Anti-drinking campaigners say it is a marketing gimmick which wrongly associates sex with alcohol.
The bottles of Popsy contain a vanilla-caramel flavoured drink carrying the slogan "I'm coming".

OMG....LMAO!

135 posted on 08/05/2002 9:17:13 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: hobbes1
". . . marketing gimmick which wrongly associates sex with alcohol."

Oh, yeah, right!

136 posted on 08/05/2002 9:19:34 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: xsmommy
now what does it say about the class, when the teacher is the one bringing the lewd stuff to class....LOL!

See, if the offending creature had been a tiger, it would have been a happy ending ; )

137 posted on 08/05/2002 9:19:41 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: Slip18
vanilla-caramel flavoured

that is enough to gag me right there.

138 posted on 08/05/2002 9:19:51 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Slip18
ROFLMAO!

Anti-drinking campaigners say it is a marketing gimmick which wrongly associates sex with alcohol.

These geniuses have never been to a college campus, have they?!

139 posted on 08/05/2002 9:22:35 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: RikaStrom; xsmommy; hobbes1; dubyaismypresident; one_particular_harbour
It's really called a Popsy Shooter.

Veddy, veddy interesting, if I say so myself.

I see a few of the students have been over to the Popsy thread.

140 posted on 08/05/2002 9:27:36 AM PDT by Slip18
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