Posted on 02/16/2006 10:51:18 PM PST 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. abaddon [pronounced A-bad-en, noun, from Hebrew abhaddon meaning destruction]
a place of destruction: an underworld abode of lost souls: HELL (see Revelation 9:11 where it referred to "the angel of the bottomless pit" according to Webster’s)
2. abattoir [pronounced roughly A-ba-twar, noun, from French abattre, to slaughter]
slaughterhouse
3.zwischenspiel [pronounced TSFISH-en-shpeel, noun, from Old high German]
a musical interlude: intermezzo
4. zounds [often pronounced zownds but should be pronounced z(w)aun(d)s or z(w)oon(d)s, interjection, a euphemism for God’s wounds]
-this word is used as a mild oath
Example sentence:
Another time.
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!
coffee.... need coffee
There is a cold front blowing in here-42, windy and drizzling off and on-I've got a long drive, so I'd better get going-I'll come to class later...
I don't need coffee - just the sound of the drill would wake me up right away. ;)
i love the smell of tooth smoke in the morning..... it smells like.... enrichment.
Good morning, Arghie!
Just wow, Jack!
No, ti, I'm here. I'm just reading right now. Have to get a handle on Arghie's words. LOL!
He was met at the gate of hades
By the guardian of the lost souls,
The keeper of the unavenged
And he did say to him:
Let you not pass abaddon;
return to the world from whence you came...
And seek payment not only for thine own anguish
But vindicate the souls of the unavenged
And they placed in his hands a sword made for him called vengeance
Forged in brimstone and tempered by the woeful tears of the unavenged
And to carry him up on his journey back to the upper world
They brought forth their demon horse
called black death
A grim steed so fierce in might
and black in colour
That he could stand as one
with the darkness
Save for his burning eyes of crimson fire
And on that night they rode,
up from hell
The pounding of his hooves did clap like thunder
(The abattoir part comes next, but is a might to....Quentin Tarantino, for this crowd...)
I imagine the DNC version of CPAC is an unholy abaddon, where they abandon all hope, those who enter there.
Momma started young.
I wonder if anyone got any quail that day. You know you have to shoot them in the butt.
Rain . . . need rain!
I heard about that last night on the news. Guess it's kind of like a bully stealing lunch money from the little 'uns.
Did you write that, Tiger, or did you steal someone's homework?
I should use the "preview" more often. "Invite." DUH!
Hello! Hello! Am I here?
I am around, but will be getting to my workout soon. It's Friday and I like to be done long before noon.
Thats an Orson Wells recitation, from the middle of a song by Manowar, called Dark Avenger....
Your wind has blown a coldfront all the way to North Texas that has dropped our temps into the 30's today. The chicken little meteorologists around here are saying that this "arctic blast" will produce some frozen precipitation for us over the next two days.
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