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 will finish the deck tomorrow. I am gonna rest Sunday. Then start building the furnishings ater work next week. A bar and some sturdy tables. We'll buy stools and chairs. The old deck furniture is headed to the patio I'll start after Memorial Day weekend (we're flying to Cincinnatti for a wedding during the holiday). I may take some leasure time after a while. 12 weekends in a row this weekend on home improvements and decorating. I'm obsessed!
I don't think that mom has anything to worry about with that little girl. Puddin's mom, OTOH...
We don't have that policy here. Everyone knows when to expect the bus and very few of us are outside waiting for it in the afternoon. If we had to wait for an adult to be seen there, my kids wouldn't get home until dark!
i doubt they wait for an adult before dropping kids here, either.
Yes, but it is a good obsession...
I'm glad to hear that she did that.
Unlike the bus drivers in the school districts in Delaware, the bus drivers in this district are employees of the district, not employees of a contractor - a fact that makes me much more comfortable. But even though I know the original driver road the bus with this guy daily for a week, I'm still not as happy with him as I was with her. I really wish she hadn't retired 5 weeks before school ended. I'm thinking that it is a health problem that caused her to leave when she did.
What a sweet man you are.
I have one friend who's husband has been cheating with his friends's wife, even moving in together, then a couple we indroduced who got married last summer are having a hard time right now. I am sad for them.
Headed out with the husband, visiting his mother. I am a living saint. ;)
I've no idea what the policy for dropping off younger kids is out here, but since I am often behind a school bus when I turn into our community coming home from work, I have noticed that there is always at least one adult waiting for the bus at each stop. And I remember that last year a bus driver was reprimanded for dropping the kids at the intersection of their road and the main one instead of taking them to their homes on the road. His excuse was that the roads were too rough to drive on-well, duh, then why did he take a school bus driver's job in a rural community? Some of those roads are a couple of miles and more long-now, they are taken to within a block of home.
....
(Might be more money if that read, "i can see you now without the tube top, holding up a sign saying CAR WASH!")
Hubby just called to tell me he is turning off the highway, so he is 10-15 minutes away-I've got to go light the grill for steaks, bake potatoes and steam asparagus-back later...
Oh, good grief...
(Robt looks at the fax machine, wondering if T5 is gonna fax him some of those steamed asparagoosses....
MR ROBERT
CD GLASSES.......
And my email is piling up...sigh.
I don't believe it is a "policy" I just think it was that particular driver's policy. I appreciated it, especially last year when there was no one living across the road. Next year it won't bother me as much.
There are some places here where there is a "communal" bus stop - but not on the particular route we live on, the bus stops are the dirveways. There are no "blocks" here, so the individual pickups occur all the way through high school.
Poor baby :(
I have finally gotten my email for the first time since Sunday night - which was the first time since the previous Tuesday - I'm still wading through it.
Now I'm going to take a benedryl and play a stupid game for a while and then go to sleep.
I will FReep at you all over the weekend.
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