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Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 15, 2003: Vitiate
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary | 10/15/2003 | The Janitor

Posted on 10/15/2003 7:31:27 AM PDT by 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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To: VRWCmember
She is trying to get the dog's tongue unstuck from her.
21 posted on 10/15/2003 7:39:16 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (On October 11, 2003 I asked Laura Earl to be my wife. "Well sure, I mean, I guess", was her answer.)
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To: VRWCmember
Maybe the V in Al's VTV should stand for vitiated.
22 posted on 10/15/2003 7:39:16 AM PDT by secret garden (Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. - Mark Twain)
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To: VRWCmember
How is it so many WFTD's apply to the Clintons?
23 posted on 10/15/2003 7:39:41 AM PDT by theDentist (Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
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To: xsmommy
Saw that and just pinged the Anglican pingmaster to it. I'm hoping we hear some good news, for a change.
24 posted on 10/15/2003 7:40:33 AM PDT by secret garden (Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. - Mark Twain)
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To: VRWCmember
I took the wife out for sushi last night. When we came home, she started throwing up. Must have been some bad vitiate.
25 posted on 10/15/2003 7:40:46 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: theDentist
This one sounds like something slurred, doesn't it?
26 posted on 10/15/2003 7:42:21 AM PDT by secret garden (Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. - Mark Twain)
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To: xsmommy
The class was turning into a dang real estate seminar.
27 posted on 10/15/2003 7:43:01 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
what do YOU want to talk about, mr vast member?
28 posted on 10/15/2003 7:44:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember
Morning, Vast!
29 posted on 10/15/2003 7:46:35 AM PDT by Eala (Note to ELF: it's "Burnt SieNNa," not "Burnt SieRRa!")
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To: secret garden
or made up.
30 posted on 10/15/2003 7:47:08 AM PDT by theDentist (Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
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To: VRWCmember
Thank you for opening the doors.
31 posted on 10/15/2003 7:47:20 AM PDT by secret garden (Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. - Mark Twain)
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To: VRWCmember
Morning, Vast!
32 posted on 10/15/2003 7:47:38 AM PDT by Eala (Note to ELF: it's "Burnt SieNNa," not "Burnt SieRRa!")
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To: theDentist
Or...shudder...French. ;)
33 posted on 10/15/2003 7:48:06 AM PDT by secret garden (Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. - Mark Twain)
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To: xsmommy; VRWCmember
"what do YOU want to talk about, mr vast member?"

Just not football mr vast member, puhleeeze. :)
34 posted on 10/15/2003 7:49:05 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: xsmommy
what do YOU want to talk about, mr vast member?

Well, we could start with the whining Cubs fans who keep yapping about fan interference. If the ball is in the stands it is NOT fan interference. If a fan reaches out into the field of play to grab a ball that would be caught in the field of play (like the infamous Yankee home run from several years back) that would be interference. But when a fan touches a ball that is beyond the railing and in the stands, preventing a player from reaching into the stands to make a play, that is simply a case of a ball out of play.

35 posted on 10/15/2003 7:50:08 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: secret garden
My pleasure. I hope Miss Rika is OK this morning.
36 posted on 10/15/2003 7:50:42 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember; xsmommy
We were playing nicely Vast...... we also talked about The Man Show, and hay, and had a few poems......... Oh I get it, we didn't mention your thighs! That's the problem XS, Vast was feeling left out......
37 posted on 10/15/2003 7:50:59 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: VRWCmember
Actually it is a case of greedy bastards ruining the integrity of the game by jamming seats too close to the field lol.
38 posted on 10/15/2003 7:51:55 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: VRWCmember
Here!

The attention Clinton gave Gray
Was to have been his finest hour-
But the only effect it had
Was to vitiate Davis' power.

Which politico will he "help" next-Some hack who can't do worse?
Whoever it is, they soon will feel
The power of the Clinton curse.
39 posted on 10/15/2003 7:52:09 AM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
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To: VRWCmember
i don't do baseball, sorry.
40 posted on 10/15/2003 7:52:18 AM PDT by xsmommy
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