Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 15, 2003: Vitiate

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary | 10/15/2003 | The Janitor

[VRWCmember]

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".

vitiate \VIH-shee-ayt\ verb
1. to make faulty or defective; impair
2. to debase in moral or aesthetic status
3. to make ineffective *

* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

Example sentence: Critics asserted that studies claiming to prove the product safe were vitiated by lack of objectivity on the part of company- hired scientists.

Did you know?
Here's one for word puzzle lovers -- and anyone else allured by alliteration. The sentence "Vivian vituperated the vicious villain for valuing vice over virtue" contains three words that derive from the same Latin root as "vitiate." Can you identify all three? If you picked "vituperate" (a verb meaning "to scold"), "vicious," and "vice," your puzzle prowess is beyond reproach. Like "vitiate," all three descend from the Latin noun "vitium," meaning "fault" or "vice."

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.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[xsmommy]

there was some high drama here a half hour ago. xs2pup managed to sneak in with a dang TURTLE CARCASS which xsboy had left on the front steps. i had no idea he had it, i thought it was a LEAF, til i smelled something foul, looked behind me and started screaming. he ran into the family room with it, TO THE COUCH, when i told the xsgirls what it was, they started screaming at the top of their lungs also. of course, it was up to me to get it away from him, dismembered as it was, and dispose of it...xsboy never came up from downstairs. his mother and sisters could have been murdered and he wouldn't even notice. when he came up to eat dinner later he did say, what were yunz screaming about?

[xsmommy]

looks like yunz got a statue of nekkid people in town.

[secret garden]

I'm sorry. The spouse is the authority on all things computer-related. He loves that stuff. If you want to see something that will make you feel good about your Iranian carpenters, I can ask him to send something later.

[xsmommy]

i would like to see what is causing all the consternation in the SG Household : )

[secret garden]

The Y chromosome is a powerful force. ;)

[xsmommy]

i will still say that disposing of a turtle carcass is preferrable to plunging toilets. my all time pet peeve.

[secret garden]

It only raised a minor fuss. It really hit the fan when they put the Athena statue inside the Parthenon. Most agree the mural of the chicks who are ashamed to be from Dixie is much more offensive.

[secret garden]

Cleaning up after a sick pet. The worst.

[xsmommy]

xskids produce more than xs2pup, so cleaning up after him is not as bad as cleaning up after them. i tend to get the dry heaves when cleaning after them when they are sick....<>p> ok, i know it's dinner time. i will stop with the grossout session!

[Argh]

I sent a postcard of this nekkid statue of Hercules wrestling Diomedes from Florence to my best buddy's girlfriend in 1970, it's hilarious:

[secret garden]

The other title for it is Why Wrestlers Wear Spandex.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I'd like a copy of that statue for my garden.....just to keep the Marine in line.......lol

[Robert A Cook PE]

Check your email - I think I've figured out a way to fix all three probelms: the gouged out hole, the loose bannister, and the stuck screw.

(Don't tell xs, but she'd not try to flush used turtles, she wouldn't have to plunge toilets as often....)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Not the swimming pool?

[Conspiracy Guy]

How could he not love a cold hearted frozen flag pole nice person like you.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

The pool, sadly, was hardly used this summer and has been closed up for the winter! We sure had fun the prior summer in that pool though.......

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hardly used, eh? Or used hard and laid upi wet?

Lettuce see.

Begin with one Marine in backyard pool, stir in a Whyisa, mix well after dark, and you find out WhythereisahardusedpoolinPA....

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I wish buddy.....it was so freakin cold here this summer - and rainy - we hardly got to swim or do anything.........lol

[Conspiracy Guy]

Hey anybody up yet!

[NeoCaveman]

Mornin' Flurry, sure is dead around here today.