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Word For The Day, Monday, 9/30/02
The Verbivores | 9/30/02 | Teacher

Posted on 09/30/2002 5:00:30 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....


precocious \pri-KOH-shus\, adjective:
precociously; adverb
precocity, precociousness; noun

1. Characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); as, "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement."
2. (Botany) Flowering or fruiting early.
3. 1. Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees.

After demonstrating a precocious aptitude for music, he was sent at a young age to the Leo Miller Studio for instruction in piano.
--James T. Fisher, Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961

Etymology: Latin praecoc-, praecox early ripening, precocious, from prae- + coquere to cook. Date: 1650



TOPICS: Education; Humor; Word For The Day
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To: xsmommy
that is ALL you have to say???

No, but I don't want to get banned....

81 posted on 09/30/2002 6:59:23 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: Slip18
Well, good morning to you, W! We've been awaiting your presence.

Good morning Slip. How's it going?

82 posted on 09/30/2002 7:00:05 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: xsmommy; dubyaismypresident
just a tongue offering?

Well, that is supposed to be one fo your faves....

83 posted on 09/30/2002 7:00:58 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: Slip18
Thank you verry much. </Elvis' modest voice.>
84 posted on 09/30/2002 7:01:36 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: TheGrimReaper
we are pretty much unsupervised til around lunchtime. why what did you have in mind ; ) ?
85 posted on 09/30/2002 7:01:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident
oh sweety, you know i feel for you, i am just teasing!
86 posted on 09/30/2002 7:02:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
you must have bad info.
87 posted on 09/30/2002 7:02:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
why what did you have in mind ; ) ?


Read my mind..... if you dare.

88 posted on 09/30/2002 7:11:05 AM PDT by TheGrimReaper
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To: RikaStrom
You don't have to be precocious
To find libs policies atrocious
They won't make you happy
No matter how sappy
You just need to find those times precious.
89 posted on 09/30/2002 7:11:36 AM PDT by doubled
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To: TheGrimReaper
oh grimmy, with that big yellow happy smiling face, there can't be anything but happy thoughts going on upstairs there!
90 posted on 09/30/2002 7:12:48 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: doubled
He found that the single institution that produced the most happiness is a good marriage. The promotion of marriage has not exactly been top item on the progressive agenda. Indeed they have done their best to destroy it. How much unhappiness has their destructive effort resulted in? But it gets worse--for the progressives: Going to church comes shortly after a good marriage. Not a bad start as a trio: be born a woman, have a good marriage and go to church.

no wonder i am so dang happy!

91 posted on 09/30/2002 7:15:15 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: RikaStrom
But as Hitchens looked around him, even in the days after the atrocity, he found something rather different. He found that a deep and lingering hatred of America over-powered some leftists' objection to mass murder. He found excuses for totalitarian hatred. He saw exactly what Orwell had seen in the leftist intelligentsia of his own time: not simply a passivity in the face of evil, but almost an admiration for it. And he was disgusted. Since those first days of shock, the hard Left has merely redoubled its assault on a free society's right to self-defense. The endless series of rationalizations, the opposition to any war to fight terror, now the sad and pathetic moral abdication of those who see president Bush as more of a threat to world order and peace than Saddam Hussein - all these responses, under-written by a simpering, barely concealed anti-Semitism, would be enough to turn anyone's stomach, let alone a good liberal's. At some point, when you look around and see that this is the quality of one's ideological allies, you have to break ranks, if only for the sake of personal moral hygiene

interesting read. Andrew Sullivan analyzing Christopher Hitchens.

92 posted on 09/30/2002 7:20:23 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
I see. Hm. Yourself.
I guess you were able to read grimmys mind clear enough.

RUN.
93 posted on 09/30/2002 7:32:42 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: hobbes1
I thought Islam frowned on that kind of thing...

No, no... they frown on sex with WOMEN.

94 posted on 09/30/2002 7:33:15 AM PDT by SCalGal
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To: xsmommy
Now youve gone and made me jealous, no GIFs for you
95 posted on 09/30/2002 7:33:33 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: Slip18
Wood-dood-dood-dood-dood!
96 posted on 09/30/2002 7:36:33 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty
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To: SCalGal
But, come on...ONLY WOMEN?
97 posted on 09/30/2002 7:38:35 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: hobbes1
what in the WORLD are you talking about?
98 posted on 09/30/2002 7:40:50 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
I have been nice to you all am...and you barely deign to speak to me.
99 posted on 09/30/2002 7:43:02 AM PDT by hobbes1
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I am feeling very put out : P
100 posted on 09/30/2002 7:43:19 AM PDT by hobbes1
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