Posted on 03/23/2006 5:22:18 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
succor \SUH-kuhr\, noun:
1. Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
2. The person or thing that brings relief.
transitive verb:
1. To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve.
Example sentence:
There was some talk about the perils of the sea, and a landsman delivered himself of the customary nonsense about the poor mariner wandering in far oceans, tempest-tossed, pursued by dangers, every storm blast and thunderbolt in the home skies moving the friends by snug firesides to compassion for that poor mariner, and prayers for his succor.
-- Mark Twain, "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion," The Atlantic, November 1877
Etymology: Succor derives from Latin succurrere, "to run under, to run or hasten to the aid or assistance of someone," from sub-, "under" + currere, "to run."
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
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
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
HD, you're an eclectic dude. You're not just a construction site guy after all. ;)
I thought a poem on "endless" waiting seemed appropriate.
Oh, poor Helen Thomas must be crying in her farina this morning. A+ for the extra credit.
ROFLMSS!!!!!!!!
Now I'm outta here.......gotta go buy hubby a b'day card!!!
though he looks very hot in the construction dude getup!
New Pill Cleanses Bowel Before Colonoscopy - OsmoPrep tablets gain FDA approval
More gning!
Un-freakin-believable!
OMG that is a huge breakthrough! xshub had to drink gallons of something disgusting which was the worst part of the colonoscopy process! love the graphic : )
Couric looks different with that short haircut.
Yeah, yours truly has to get one o'those done.
Not looking forward to it.
thank you ladies - but like I said before - I even look better when they put the Indian outfit on me.
And by the way SG - how do you know of any of this???
seriously, he said the worst was drinking the pineapple flavored crap. he was out like a light, it took no time at all, i dropped him off and picked him up and he was groggy and took a huge nap when he got home. it is not a big deal. promise.
your nude construction pix are ALL OVER the net....
yeah, but I thought SG was the innocent respectable one around here....
Thanks -- guess it's not so bad considering the alternative.
Got a cousin who's on a permanent colo-bag due to colon cancer. Best to catch that stuff early.
she has no control over what appears in her mailbox!
and she can't control her lascivious friends!
a guy i dated in college ended up with one before he had even graduated. geez, i have not thought of him in years, i wonder what he is up to these days. he was in pharm school at Duquesne. will have to google him!
Phew!!! - as long as I don't have to lower the pedestal I've put her upon.
(makes it tougher to look up her skirt then)
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