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!
Clear and 68 here. I found a place in the west facing side year where I want another tree, but there is so little soil that it will have to be a native one-it is needed to block the late afternoon sun on the side deck and windows-shades and film on windows only do so much. Since I want a tree that gets raller then the usual 20-25 feet of hill country natives, my choices are pretty limited.
I don't know what the current temperature is, but it is nice enough outside that I have reopenned all the windows I had closed on Friday because the weather was so rotten.
It appears I'm going to have to put some kind of netting around my fruit cocktail tree......the fruit looks like it is being bird pecked and seeing a mockingbird fly out of it gives me good reason to think I'm right.
Back from Mass, i noticed that one of the trees in my bed is sprouting branches around the bottom. i remarked on it to xshub who told me to call the lawnboys. i said maybe they needed to just LIVE IN... ; )
Good grief - get the mods to delete that comment before any of the croqs see it...........
why would i give a dang what the boys in this class say, if i said that to my hub????
Good point.
Well - back from the garden center and now getting ready to head for the hills with my first 32 tomato plants and 8 basil plants.
After lunch, hubby gathered up one of the cordless drills, a studfinder, a box of drywall anchors and some woodscrews and headed for his office-it seems that he had told building maintenance that some shelves on the walls were loose and about to fall. The maintenance people just put more screws in the shelves without even trying to locate a stud to screw the shelf brackets into, and on Thursday two of them came down with a crash narrowly missing hubby's desk, a client he was interviewing and scattering their contents all over the office. He said when he left that even if he had to anchor the brackets to the sheetrock, the shelves were not going to come crashing down again. The fact that government maintenance workers don't even know how to properly put up shelves really does not surprise me.
I was marinating some pork loin strips to grill for supper, and getting brown rice and cauliflower ready to cook when I heard an engine running next door and looked out the window to see the next door neighbor apparently running amok and out of control on a brand new riding mower. I suppose it never occurred to him that the terrain is too uneven and rocky here for one of those things, because he came barreling down the slope of their property by our fence toward the cliff and barely stopped 6 feet short of the edge-I guess no one showed him where the brake was. Before he gave up and put the thing back into his storage barn he had run over and obliterated two of his wife's flower beds by their deck, destroyed a sage bush and run into one of our metal pipe fence posts twice with the nose of the mower. I can hardly wait to hear the reaming he is going to get when she comes out later to light their grill and sees all that destruction. Surely he must have wondered why most people don't have riders up here on this hill even though they live on acreage?
Not sitting around today...went out and found the perfect dress to wear to the garden wedding a week from today. I'm gonna get me some next Sunday nite!!! :)
oh Gosh, thank goodness no one has to go and retrieve his mangled corpse from the foot of the cliff! we have quite a steep grade in front of our house and could never use a riding mower here. The lawn boys use some huge stand-on kind of things and they go up and down at an angle. Riding mowers are scary business!
i had a pedicure today and got xsboy's hair trimmed up. no length taken off, my stylist is so considerate of my kids, she was actually asking HIM what he wanted, i said excuse me, i can tell you what he wants... : ) she just trimmed and layered it, bc his hair is really thick and it was doing some godawful flip up at the ends that was grossing me the hell out. he thinks he looks hideous now, that's the thanks that i get!
what is the dress like, btw?
Sounds like an old episode of I Love Lucy.......LOL
Good grief - some people just have no sense, do they? We've got a couple of gentle slopes here, but basically it is all flat and the riding mowing still gives me the heebie jeebies.
I didn't get around to getting any tomato plants in today because I started cleaning off some bamboo to put around the herb garden to keep the dogs from digging up my seeds, Unfortunately I could not find the proper tool to cut the cleaned bamboo into serviceable lengths, so I just kept right on cleaning more bamboo until hubby got home. Of course he proceeds to inform me that the machete was in the furnace room, less than 30 feet from where I was working........sigh.
LOLOL!
RME. you have a bit of a slope.
Walked out and started sneezing like crazy. Darn!
I hate VA. I am allergic to it.
-wedding cake?
I don't think that's what she meant...
you call it whatever you want. ;)
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