;Posted on 11/12/2014 5:26:37 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, November 12, 2014-- scrutate
;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".
scrutate [SKRU-tayt]
verb, transitive
To investigate.
Origin: From Latin scrutari (to examine). Earliest documented use: 1882.
USAGE:
"Philosophers have too often thought that they can learn more about human nature by scrutating the murky depths of substance and faculties than by interpreting the obvious evidence." John Lachs; The Relevance of Philosophy to Life; Vanderbilt University Press; 1995.
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.
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Most transparent? It depends on the meaning of the word “most.” If it means “least,” it is true.
Brilliant! I nominate you as czar of nominations in 2016.
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SCOTUS gets another at-bat when they get to decide whether “subsidies in state exchanges” actually means “subsidies in state and federal exchanges.”
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Nicely done. Love a good limerick.
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Extra Credit.
Trey Gowdy is a national treasure.
Hey, you wrote exactly what I was thinking!
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Drudge would have had to scrutate a blowtape.
Sorry. I should probably make more obscure connections when I write my example sentence. The first thing that comes into my mind is probably the first thing that comes into a lot of like-minded minds.
Yes, or else they wouldn’t be “like-minded.”
Elect a Muslim as President and this is what happens.
I’ll be out for a few hours. Will mark the late arrivals when I return.
The idea that you aren’t having a Christmas break by calling it “winter break” is disingenuous at best.
They should call it what it is.
Any student with a religious reason for missing school is excused. This isn’t new.
If you have a critical mass of a given religion, then it makes sense to have the entire school take the day off.
We didn’t have Jewish kids, let alone Muslims, when I went to school, so we didn’t have Yom Kippur off. If we had a sizable minority, then we would have. It has nothing to do with the state “recognizing” a holiday. They are recognizing reality.
More than once my daughter’s district has hinted at opening on Good Friday to make up snow days. They never have because enough parents respond “I’m not sending my kid to school on Good Friday.”
If enough kids don’t show up, it doesn’t count as an official instruction day. So it’s a fruitless effort.
Reminded me too.
He’s a dem, he will just pretend he didn’t say it and they will happily accept that
Many years ago, when my son was still in public school in Texas, the school board officially called the two week break at the end of December as the “Winter Break” - I doubt there was a muslim within 100 miles of our town. Of course we all called it Christmas break but officially it was the “winter break”
And a multi-vaccationing, golfing puppet as well!!!! All at taxpayer expense, of course!!
I wonder if he’s any good at golf. Probably not.
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