;Posted on 02/02/2015 7:03:26 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 2/2/15
;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".
ineluctable; adj.
incapable of being evaded; inescapable: "an ineluctable destiny."
Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable.
Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
Etymology: 1615-25; < Latin inēluctābilis, equivalent to in- in-3+ ēluctā (rī) to force a way out or over, surmount ( ē- e-1+ luctārī to wrestle) + -bilis -ble
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....
Here is my example with WFTD.
Punxatawney Phil notwithstanding, 6 more weeks of winter is ineluctable. headline
No pushing at the door please!
Sorry i’m late, I am jammed up at the office.
Jam and coffee, eh? Sound good. Fax me a cup.
Criticism of the Sehawks coach for his last play call in the SuperBowl is ineluctable.
But be sure to drink only with your pinkie finger raised! (While you are trimming curtains above the door.)
Are the Patroits cheating consequences now ineluctable? Or is it a case of what’s the difference? Too bad a 9/11 truther blew the game for the 4 Aggies on his team.
One of the most famous passages in Western literature:
“Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.
A+++ to cap off 6 yrs of the same~!
paying the piper by April 15 is ineluctable.
yes, hate when a loss hangs on pretty much one guy. A+++ I didn’t care who won, but I usually feel bad for the losers. Unless the losers are the Penguins and the winners are the caps : )
A+++ xshub hated both teams so we didn’t care one way or the other.
Good morning - now that football season is over I can move on to my baseball team not winning much either.
Winter is ineluctable
Snow is undismissable
The ground is snowy white
Without a plow in sight
This frozen tundra is inexcusable.
This guy was ineluctable...........
James Joyce, A++++ good job.
A+++ true indeed. and my newly employed 23 yo is even more tea party oriented bc of it for having to file taxes for the first time in his life.
Looks like a foot of snow already and it won’t stop til late afternoon.
yeah well one looks for solace where one can, LOL! A+++
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