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Word For The Day, Thursday, February 5, 2009 - defalcate
dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | 5 February 2009 | secret garden

Posted on 02/05/2009 4:40:01 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".

defalcate \di-FAL-keyt\, verb
to steal or misuse money or property entrusted to one's care

Example sentence:
The stockbroker defalcated millions from investment clients.

Etymology:
c 1540, from Latin defalcere, from de- + falx/falcem "sickle, scythe".

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

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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To: VRWCmember

Where is the outrage?


61 posted on 02/05/2009 7:49:31 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

A+ for you. We watched the latest Indiana Jones movie last night and every time he said he had a bad feeling, he was right. The giant Roomba at the end was way too hokey though.


62 posted on 02/05/2009 7:51:30 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: Gabz

My advice? Stay inside but sit by the windows.


63 posted on 02/05/2009 7:52:09 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: xsmommy
i think they said more like 20% of body heat escapes through head,

When it's done right that is probably true.

64 posted on 02/05/2009 7:55:00 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: doubled

Well done. A+ for you. I was going over “defenestrate” this morning with one of the kiddos, who had a teacher completely butcher the word in class yesterday. I had to pull out the big dictionary for proof(teenagers!) and told him if a teacher cannot pronounce a word correctly, their usage is probably off too.


65 posted on 02/05/2009 7:55:32 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: SoothingDave

I hope we have a good game tonight with a solid win. We’re desperate for points. As far as melons go, it was So I Married an Axe Murderer going through my head. That is one of my favorite scenes in the movie.


66 posted on 02/05/2009 7:58:07 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: Gabz
How bizarre is this? Virgos, Scorpios, and Sagittarians need not apply.
67 posted on 02/05/2009 8:07:09 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden

It was either 1st grade or kindergarten when my daughter used the word “zebu” as an example of a z word for the class. (It’s an animal, she learned it from VeggieTales.) The teacher didn’t know it and said my daughter was wrong.

The next day, I sent in with my daughter a photocopy of the dictionary page.


68 posted on 02/05/2009 8:15:55 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Veggie Tales is entertaining. I hesitate to prove teachers wrong with my kids because I don’t want them to be skeptical of everything they hear from them. It’s a fine line. I am guilty of making corrections(in red) of notes sent home with spelling and grammatical errors.


69 posted on 02/05/2009 8:20:47 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden

LOL!!!!

As far as I know I have no place to go today, and I’m a happy camper.

I knew how cold it was going to be, so did my grocery shopping last evening!

Poor hubby, I thought he was gong to croak when he saw the total on the register, but that was before the cashier started ringing up the coupons. By the time she finished $65 had been knocked off the total!!!


70 posted on 02/05/2009 8:30:23 AM PST by Gabz
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To: secret garden; NeoCaveman; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
have i mentioned end times in the offing recently?
71 posted on 02/05/2009 8:31:30 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

I am of the mindset that private employers should be able to offer positions to whomever they deem best qualified, using whatever criteria they desire.


72 posted on 02/05/2009 8:32:01 AM PST by Gabz
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To: SoothingDave

Your story reminds me. My daughter’s teacher asked the class what month it was. My daughter raised her hand and said, “February” and the teacher said the month was correct but she had pronounced it wrong. The teacher said it was Feb-u-ary, not Feb-ru-ary.

The teacher went on to say there is no r in February.

Even teaching the second grade the woman was over her head.


73 posted on 02/05/2009 8:33:29 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: secret garden
Is it true that the Congress wants to defalcate 4.5 billion dollars for Snuggies
74 posted on 02/05/2009 9:22:56 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Mullahs in space)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

You stole my very first thought!


75 posted on 02/05/2009 9:42:57 AM PST by Jaded (No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Laura V)
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To: NeoCaveman

HA! i wanted to know how SNUGGIE got my email address bc i have been getting spam from them!


76 posted on 02/05/2009 9:57:39 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: NeoCaveman
this socialism thing is no joke anymore. people are getting completely desensitized to it. Look at freepers on this thread buying into this class warfare thing. scary.
77 posted on 02/05/2009 9:58:39 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Conditions are ripe for a nationalist populist movement. That’s what you’re seeing there.


78 posted on 02/05/2009 10:18:54 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

i find it very frightening. if freepers can’t even see it for what it is, there is no stopping it.


79 posted on 02/05/2009 10:19:56 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave; NeoCaveman; VRWCmember
so, didja hear the one about the greasy horndog calling the sexy little firecracker? LOL!

Since Palin is considered a sexy little firecracker, at least as far as potential Republican saviors go, and since Bill Clinton is basically known as an unreformed, greasy horndog, the gossip about the phone call could all be a ploy to embarrass Bill Clinton, and thus Hillary Clinton, and thus Barack Obama, by making it seem like the former president is constantly calling attractive lady politicians on any old pretext.

80 posted on 02/05/2009 10:22:19 AM PST by xsmommy
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