Word For The Day, Monday, July 14, 2003

The Verbivores | 7/14/03 | The Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of 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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sagacity \Sa*gac"i*ty\, noun
sagacious; adjective
sagaciously; adverb
sagaciousness; noun

1. The quality of being discerning, sound in judgment, and farsighted; wisdom.
2. The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
3. Ability to make good judgments.
4. The mental ability to form an opinion by distinguishing and evaluating.

Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. --Cowper.
Natural sagacity improved by generous education. --V. Knox.

Etymology: [French sagacité, from Old French sagacite, from Latin sag cit s, quickness of perception, from sag x, sag c-, of keen perception.]

[hobbes1]

And I am sure you are a master...

[xsmommy]

bc the stores are filling with fall clothes and back to school supplies, also.

[VRWCmember]

Hey, I'm a master at that too.

[secret garden]

Wait a minute. Was he the blonde in that movie? If so, it reinforces my theory on guys that go blonde.

[xsmommy]

; ) bet you are.

[xsmommy]

: )

[CholeraJoe]

Here's your pirate from the Premiere.

[xsmommy]

what might i be allergic to at this time of year? i woke myself up sneezing the past 2 nights, and had a sneezing jag in the shower this AM. haven't felt this way since spring.

[CholeraJoe]

He was the blonde archer with the pointy ears in LOTR.

[xsmommy]

fruit. no doubt.

[Gabz]

That's strange, I always considered the 4th of July to be the start of summer, not the midpoint.

To me the midpoint of summer was always the first week of August.

[secret garden]

If you've had a lot of rain, it could be molds and fungus. Those are most aggravating at night and early morning.

[secret garden]

pretty.

[xsmommy]

maybe bc you don't have a schoolage child? summer starts mid to early june at our house, when they get out of school for summer vaca. your perspective changes when you become ruled by the school calendar. xshub and i, prior to children, would always go to the beach the last week of august first week of Sept, after the families with kids were all in school and the places cleared out. Now we live on the school sched.

[secret garden]

Non, no, no. The start is Memorial Day.

[camle]

them eyes weren't devoted, they was terrified.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin' !!

The League of Extraordinary Freepers

[xsmommy]

well yeah, we have had rain. it rained last night, and tstorms forecast for this afternoon. the weekend was gorgeous though, low humidity and not overly hot.

[xsmommy]

harrumph....

[secret garden]

I am tempted to yank ours for a week in mid-September since we are too late to find a good vacation spot for the last week of the month.