Posted on 05/20/2005 2:19:26 AM PDT by Argh
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of four "Words for the Day".
1. vagile (from Latin vagus wandering)
free to move about
2. vagility (as above)
the quality or state of being vagile; broadly: the capacity of an organism to compete successfully in the struggle for existence
3. panhygrous (well, it IS Friday)
moist in all parts
(I found this at the online International House of Logorrhea. I can't find it in my dictionaries at home, but it does appear in a number of places if you google it.)
4. dysphemism
(from Latin and Grek dys meaning abnormal, bad, etc., and from Greek pheme speech)
substitution of a disagreeable, offensive or disparaging word or expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one (as of axle grease for butter, old man for father, or heap for car); also: a word or expression so substituted - contrasted with euphemism
Example sentence:
I'm not sure this last word will have much utility for the class. If I use "scummy, lying, self-aggrandizing molester" for "Bill Clinton", am I using a dysphemism? No, I'm being accurate. And the same would apply to the rest of our usual suspects. A challenge for the students today.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using one or more of the Words for the Day in one or more sentences.
The sentences must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Good Morning, Class. Welcome to School!
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
No pushing at the door please!
i wish you could have seen it, it was heartbreaking....
Teach! Teach!
CG is mooning me in pubic! No fair!
(Oh. Wait. Robt realizes Arghie is subbie teach today.)
(Oh. No. Robt realizes Arghie might moon him as well .....)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Pain is no fun. I had chronic high pain for about 18 months, that has just gotten better. It may completely go away when I get a teenectomy (accomplished by him turning into an adult)...
I'm surprised you're not trying to take credit for this. Isn't this how your poolboys usually end up, pardon the expression?
That would be beyond a mere specialist's comprehension.
I used to say I wanted to teach college so I wouldn't have to deal with children...hmmm....
it a slipperly slope ("greasy slope," given the nature of most of our people's food) - next thing you know they'll be offering chocolate kalachy or some such unholy aberration
Thank you. I guess. :^)
that doesn't sound too terribly bad actually....
Congratulations on the chronic pain loss. And I understand teenectomies don't generally take until the little bastards are about 25 years old. Good luck with that!
it may very well be good. But it wouldn't be kalachy (or however you spell it)
LE doesn't want to go to the LeTourneau-Faalau wedding with me : (
I had a chronic problem that would make my bile duct have spasms that felt like a heart attack....they put me on welbutrin because it got to the point I cried for five hours between teen problems and pain...took the spasms out as one of its side effects. I would have done that months earlier if I had only known!
After buying a waterford pitcher for popeye, and have her show out like that, how can you blame me?
Letourneau ain't running anywhere but to willie's lovin' arms... ; )
Kinda boring, you have to admit!
MR ROBERT
MR NOT ROBERT
OSAR
CM GLASSES
LIB
MR ROBERT
LE swipes the gradebook from arghy and gives Jack an A++++!
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