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Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - stygian
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Word of the Day ^ | 04/09/2008

Posted on 04/09/2008 5:54:57 AM PDT by VRWCmember



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".

stygian • \STIJ-ee-un\ • adjective, (often capitalized)

1. of or relating to the river Styx
2. extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding *

Example sentence:

When the power went out in the building, the halls and stairwells were plunged into stygian darkness.

Did you know?
"Stygian" comes to us (by way of Latin "stygius" and Greek "stygios") from "Styx," the name of the principal river in Hades, the underworld of the dead in Greek mythology. This is the river over which Charon the boatman was said to ferry the spirits of the dead; the Greeks and Romans would place a coin in the mouth or hand of the deceased to serve as fare. It is also the river by which the gods swore their most binding oaths, according to the epics of Homer. English speakers have been using "stygian" to mean "of or relating to the river Styx" since the early 16th century. From there the meaning broadened to describe things that are as dark, dreary, and menacing as one might imagine Hades and the river Styx to be.

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 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
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)


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To: secret garden

can’t. i really do like it.


101 posted on 04/09/2008 8:39:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
i like tainted love!

The guy singing it sounds like Forest Gump trying to do a Bruce Sprinstein impersonation.

102 posted on 04/09/2008 8:40:26 AM PDT by VRWCmember (McCain 2008 -- If it's inevitible, you might as well lay back and try to enjoy it.)
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To: VRWCmember

have you heard the marilyn manson version?


103 posted on 04/09/2008 8:41:07 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; xsmommy

Y’all ready for this?

Secret, I just LOVE “The Wall” by Pink Floyd. David Gilmour is soooooooo cool!

((CJ dives for cover))


104 posted on 04/09/2008 8:42:23 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Flatland Warrior: "All your Jap auto plants are belong to us.")
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To: xsmommy
have you heard the marilyn manson version?

I don't know. Whenever I hear the song I run screaming from the room. "Tainted Love" and "Don't You Want Me Baby" very well might be the two worst songs ever produced in the '80s.

105 posted on 04/09/2008 8:42:56 AM PDT by VRWCmember (McCain 2008 -- If it's inevitible, you might as well lay back and try to enjoy it.)
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To: xsmommy
Here is the cure for that earworm.
106 posted on 04/09/2008 8:43:08 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: CholeraJoe

i just heard comfortably numb yesterday.


107 posted on 04/09/2008 8:43:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

that’s good too.


108 posted on 04/09/2008 8:43:39 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember

i liked both of those songs and they remind me of going out dancing when i was in law school bc that was the era in which they were played : )


109 posted on 04/09/2008 8:44:24 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; secret garden

Shhhh or secret will open a vein. She hates them.


110 posted on 04/09/2008 8:44:27 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Flatland Warrior: "All your Jap auto plants are belong to us.")
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To: CholeraJoe

Hmmm, wonder what all the former stoners from my HS are doing nowadays? Now that I’m older and actually play guitar, I can appreciate Gilmour, but back then? My eyes would roll right out of my head.


111 posted on 04/09/2008 8:45:15 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: CholeraJoe

No dark sarcasm in the classroom?


112 posted on 04/09/2008 8:45:45 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

make that stygian sarcasm!


113 posted on 04/09/2008 8:45:59 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: CholeraJoe

Hate is such a strong word. Unless you’re talking about Another Brick in the Wall. That is awful. Thankfully, I’m not into self-mutilation.


114 posted on 04/09/2008 8:47:04 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: xsmommy

I can better visualize you dancing to “We’ve Got the Beat” or “Hey Mickey”.


115 posted on 04/09/2008 8:47:11 AM PDT by VRWCmember (McCain 2008 -- If it's inevitible, you might as well lay back and try to enjoy it.)
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To: VRWCmember

nope!


116 posted on 04/09/2008 8:48:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

I really like Korn’s cover of “Another Brick in the Wall.”

“How can you have any pudding, if you don’t eat yer meat?!”


117 posted on 04/09/2008 8:50:18 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Flatland Warrior: "All your Jap auto plants are belong to us.")
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To: xsmommy; Guenevere; SoothingDave; CholeraJoe
carnegie mellon university for all of its vaunted school of architecture has nothing to compare to it.

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I'm confused.

Are we still talking circumcision?

118 posted on 04/09/2008 8:50:28 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: VRWCmember; xsmommy

I like ‘em both too. Especially the second time, as retro hip.


119 posted on 04/09/2008 8:51:16 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: CholeraJoe
Ugh. They were on an episode of Monk.
Here's the only Steely Dan song my spouse can tolerate.
120 posted on 04/09/2008 8:52:18 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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