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Word For The Day, Monday, July 14, 2003
The Verbivores | 7/14/03 | The Teacher

Posted on 07/14/2003 5:07:51 AM PDT by 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....


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.]


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To: xsmommy
Someone needs to post the spanky picture.
421 posted on 07/14/2003 11:38:43 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If I can support FR with two kids in college, you can too. Freedom aint free but you can charge it.)
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To: Flurry
i am sorry flurry. : )
422 posted on 07/14/2003 11:39:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Flurry; TheGrimReaper
you mean the behind getting a spanking? that is under grimmy's dominion and control.
423 posted on 07/14/2003 11:39:59 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Who's on my right? Whoever is on my right "I'm sorry".
424 posted on 07/14/2003 11:40:34 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If I can support FR with two kids in college, you can too. Freedom aint free but you can charge it.)
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To: xsmommy
LOL
425 posted on 07/14/2003 11:40:51 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: xsmommy
he needs to post it.
426 posted on 07/14/2003 11:41:31 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If I can support FR with two kids in college, you can too. Freedom aint free but you can charge it.)
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To: Flurry
Someone needs to post the spanky picture.

Are you talking about this one?


427 posted on 07/14/2003 11:43:16 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Flurry; TheGrimReaper
i am worried that grimmy is battening down the hatches
428 posted on 07/14/2003 11:43:32 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Flurry
Keep it down over their. Still working on my creative writing project...and not the one about Caucasius. The one about what I have done the past 6 months.
429 posted on 07/14/2003 11:43:57 AM PDT by Laura Earl (A bad day at the beach is better than the best day at work.)
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To: VRWCmember
THAT is a crime against humanity right there.
430 posted on 07/14/2003 11:43:58 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Laura Earl
their=there...my English teachers just turned over in their crypts.
431 posted on 07/14/2003 11:44:36 AM PDT by Laura Earl (A bad day at the beach is better than the best day at work.)
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To: Flurry
One spanky picture:


Oh, yuck...

432 posted on 07/14/2003 11:45:13 AM PDT by Argh
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To: Flurry
Me too!!!!
433 posted on 07/14/2003 11:46:13 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: VRWCmember
That ain't Hillary's bod in a million years.
434 posted on 07/14/2003 11:47:45 AM PDT by ricpic
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To: ricpic
hey where ya been linoleum guy?
435 posted on 07/14/2003 11:48:06 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: ricpic
and have you seen Hil naked to judge???
436 posted on 07/14/2003 11:48:28 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: ricpic
Nor is it the bod of that tub of lard Bill!
437 posted on 07/14/2003 11:48:42 AM PDT by Laura Earl (A bad day at the beach is better than the best day at work.)
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To: xsmommy
Don't have to see her. My natural sagacity tells me taint so.
438 posted on 07/14/2003 11:50:30 AM PDT by ricpic
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To: Laura Earl; ricpic
Well, if airbrush artists can make Dixie Thick Natalie Maines look like the thing on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, then that pic of hill and bill was probably a piece of cake.
439 posted on 07/14/2003 11:51:17 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Laura Earl
Gaurunteed Bill has a cottage cheese rump.
440 posted on 07/14/2003 11:52:26 AM PDT by ricpic
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