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!
our spring breaks are 3 diff weeks, so no fun for us : (
No snow flurries today, however, the temp is 29F with 20 Wind Chill factor, over cast skies. It takes a while for Lady Spring to change into her flowery robes.
They're even cheesier when Wordsworth wrote "poetry" about them. :^)
And speaking of cheesy, and an appropriate use for daffodils, there was a scene at the end of that awful old British late-50's/early-60's comedy movie Carry On Nurse (one of a whole mess of "Carry On" movies) during which a nurse is taking a male patient's rectal temperature with a daffodil. They don't actually show you that. As I remember it, the nurse was in a rush to go somewhere or something, so she apparently stuck a daffodil instead of a thermometer in, and another nurse walked in and screeched. The man having his temp taken said peevishly, "What's the matter? You've never seen a temperature taken this way before?" and she responded "Yes...but never with a daffodil." End of movie. You had to be there. Be thankful you weren't.
HAH!! Apparently.
Got through the flood ok?
She was an awfully good sport.
Look at the early bird!
Very nice, A+ for you.
something in the air down there has Whyisa all up early....
A+ for the extra credit!
Good one Gabz! :-)
A+ Mike!
Very nice. A+
Somebody get Argh some coffee! Quick!
A+ and a hearty nyuk, nyuk, nyuk to the dems.
:^) Got some, thanks.
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