Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 24, 2012-- Pyrrhic

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 24, 2012-- Pyrrhic

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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".

Pyrrhic [pir-ik] First syllable has short “i” sound, as in “pyramid,” NOT funeral “pyre.”

hear it pronounced

adjective
of, pertaining to, or resembling Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, or his costly victory.

Word Origin & History

Pyrrhic 1885, from Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who defeated Roman armies at Asculum, 280 B.C.E., but at such cost to his own troops that he was unable to follow up and attack Rome itself, and is said to have remarked, "one more such victory and we are lost."

Related forms
Pyrrhus -noun (ˈpɪrəs)

1. 319--272 bc , king of Epirus (306--272). He invaded Italy but was ultimately defeated by the Romans (275 bc )
2. another name for Neoptolemus

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.

Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[onyx]

LOL. You’re so sweet! Thank you very much, “sweetie-pie, honey bunch.”

[onyx]

Maple syrup badger....LOL.

[onyx]

OKay! Please ping me on that day.
I might get an A+ for endearments. :)

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Thank you very much, “sweetie-pie, honey bunch.”

Can't help myself.

[tioga]

I finally got an automated survey on our local congressional election and the presidential one, too. I was shocked. If they call again, I will give them a phony answer. It asked about unions...LOL....here in this part of the state there are not that many unions.

[tioga]

DH has 4 Halloween inflatables, 3 trees lit up in orange and 1 bush in purple lights, cool orange lightbulbs in the garage and back patio, 4 ghosts in the dining room window, and 10 jack-o-lanterns and one flaming pot of witches brew in the rest of the windows. RME Wait till I show him this house. this guy has a singing house extravaganza. DH will be jealous.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I would have been quicker, but YOU took the first sentence that came to my mind before I’d even read your example! I had to think up a new one. LOL.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I just realized that if you collapse today’s word into one syllable, it becomes a synonym for David Axelrod.

[tioga]

Our yare candidate, Mitt Romney, won all the debates with a cunning rarely seen in a Republican candidate. Our POTUS sneered and stabbed at Romney with an aggressiveness that delighted many in the last debate. His pyrrhic victory was a tactic most likey from an Alinsky style enchiridion. However, the results on November 6th will be irrefragable.

[tioga]

Oh, that reminds me to check his twitter account. He has posted nothing on the last debate. That didn’t stop me from tweeting HIM.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++
I love all the review words.

[theDentist]

I do worry sometimes that even should Mitt win, it might be a pyrrhic victory, as bit by bit Conservative planks in the Republican Platform are replaced with Pop planks, with all the stability of a liberal facing reality.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A++
If Mitt wins, at least we’ll still have a republic, intend of a czar-laden, executive order-driven, from the top down dictatorship.

[tioga]

Found this while browsing games for my student. Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

[Best and Brightest]

“Hillary’s minions may have kept their costs down in monitoring Libyia, but it became a Pyrrhic victory after the Ambassador and 3 other Americans were killed. NNOw that the details are emerging, their boss will lose the election, I’m convinced.”

Just living in the White House and studying with Saul Alinsky, hater of America, did not qualify Hillary to run for president or be appointed to any federal job. Think about it, folks. Just because she wanted it so bad did not substitute for her lack of an actual career. So we have a president with NO EXPERIENCE appointing a Secretary of State with no experience. This can not continue.

[tioga]

Did you see that blackface skit on national news? Sadly, just down the road from me is where it all happened. I totally missed that it happened here in Tioga County, NY.

[tioga]

It will be so refreshing to be proud of our POTUS and his cabihnet again.

[NeoCaveman]

your Halloween house sounds incredible.

[tioga]

Yeah, it’s pretty cool. I forgot the lighted spider web on the tree trunk. Still, it’s not as much as he does for Christmas. Too bad we live next door to the 2 dobermans and neighbors fear walking by our house.

[VRWCmember]

I predict that if chirpy rat Gloria Allred succeeds in her sleazy little October surprise attempt , that it will be a pyrrhic victory at best for the obama sleaze machine, producing nothing but yawns from the electorate.