Posted on 09/16/2005 1:49:00 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. tenebrific [te-ne-BRIF-ic, adjective, from Latin tenebrae, meaning darkness]
1. gloomy
2. causing gloom or darkness
3. Sometimes used poetically to mean "sad"
2. lachrymose [LAK-ri-mose, adjective, from Latin lacrima meaning tear]
1. given to tears or weeping: suffused with tears: tearful
2. fit to bring tears or induce mournfulness: dismal, melancholy
3. lugubrious [pronounced luh-GOOB-bree-yus, adjective, from Latin lugere, to mourn]
1. Expressive of, marked by, or giving rise to grief or sorrow: mournful; especially exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
2. Disposed to gloom: dismal
4. saturnine [SAT-er-nine, adjective, from Latin Saturnus meaning Saturn, perhaps related to its distance from the sun]
1. Born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn: slow, sluggish
2. Of a moody or surly character: morose, sullen, mournful
3. Of or related to lead or lead poisoning
Example sentence:
Later. Maybe.
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!
The loon has another hearing at the end of the month-she is still incarcerated because no one is fool enough to make bail for her again. She will very likely get 180 days for parole violation for being drunk and disorderly when she was in that cat fight in a bar at one of the marinas. I heard from her recurrent enabler that she was going to lease her house to "a friend" for the time she is in the joint, and the thought strikes terror into my soul to think of what kind of a psycho or trailer trash that might be-I think I'm going to call my realtor friend to find out how much I can get selling my house and what is for sale on the next road, because if the loon leases the place out to her trashy friends, there goes the neighborhood...
oh no!! good she is locked up, bad she will bring in some other undesirables. if you sell must you disclose the ghost?
I don't know-I'll have to ask about spook disclosure, because the odds are very much against us finding a non-haunted property around here. I seriously do NOT want to have some undesirable person living just up the road, even for 6 months-good grief, that is one of the reasons we left the city-but hubby says I'm over-reacting, and I know he won't sell and move unless there is a home and property available that is either just perfect, or is priced right so we can remodel it to make it perfect.
but your house, but for the spooks, IS PERFECT.
I'd still rather have a log home, but this location will be anything BUT perfect if trash moves in-property on this road will lose value with every wild party, every domestic incident and every call that county deputies answer-and most of us have paid a lot of money for our property and houses...
Hubby just called from the turn-off to the park road, and he said today was full moon Friday at his office-I'm off to light the grill and start cooking...
Miss Lawyer Lady, can you explain something to me?
Does this mean the "36 percent of men who never had sex with another male" didn't use a condom when they didn't have sex with another male?
To MSM:
Weep, weep, O dismal child, hearing the fair words
of a good man who refuses to fail when you want him to,
Let go a lugubruious sigh and a mournful wail,
Let your eyes be streaked with lachrymose trails,
rail the banshee in the tenebrific night,
For he smiles, and opens his hand to those in need
whom in your saternine way you longed to use as a tool
to make him suffer. O dismal child, wail,
for you who shroud yourself in the dark, and who make deals
with devils to get your way,have been sidestepped by light one more time.
Ok, give me a few moments, and I will read that again.
Hmmmmmmmn.
(To the Mainstream Media? Are they really that gloomy?)
Then again .......
Think of a girl in black with black lipstick and spikey hair.
Or Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice.
Yep. That's the current MSM look...at least metaphorically when they are whining about the prez looking good when they want him to look bad...
We will not go into what is hanging out on the back porch with CG.....
(This is, afer all, a public discussion, and what hangs out in the back yard stays in the back yard.....)
(Unless you're interested in Whatisatexasgirlhangingoutinthepoolinherbackyardatnight...)
Terrific, Miss Knitting!!
Woof! Now that is a scary visual first thing in the morning...
Aha! Someone else is up at the weekday time on the weekend-I just automatically wake up at the same time, no matter what day it is, and this morning I was helped to do so by the noise of a fishing tournament. A good book and a comfortable chair will be my focus for a couple of hours now...
this was my first AM to sleep past 6 this week, bc xshub was out of town and i had to do the full panoply of delivering, retrieving etc. It has been a rough few weeks, but i slept til 7:30 and it felt great!
That sounds like it hell week at a sorority-I'm glad you are able to slow down a bit now.
Loosh got groomed yesterday and they bobbed his ears so that he looks like a pup now, he hadn't been groomed for awhile and so i wanted them to cut his hair some, but he looks scalped, the poor thing. i think xsteen is hurting his self esteem by making fun of his short ears!
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