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Word For The Day, Monday, August 4, 2003
The Verbivores
| 8/4/03
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Posted on 08/04/2003 5:11:52 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....
elucidate \ih-LOO-si-dayt\, verb
elucidates; elucidating; elucidated: intransitive verb
elucidation; elucidator: noun
elucidative: adjective
1. To make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify.
2. To give an explanation that serves to clarify
3. Shed light on.
4. Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
He thought that film's promise and purpose was to elucidate the real, to reveal the patterns already before us, and he believed that unity of space and time were paramount.
--Nancy Reisman, House Fires
Etymology: [Late Latin l cid re, l cid t- : Latin -, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + Latin l cidus, bright (from l c re, to shine. See leuk- in Indo-European Roots).]
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To: Lunatic Fringe
If, after all of this, he is not ousted in October, I'm going to be sorely annoyed!
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To: xsmommy
Now I bet he's got some very interesting things to say.
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To: dubyaismypresident
To: RikaStrom
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:30:55 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(shaking sand from everything)
To: secret garden
great article. and i do think it is impossible to be a faithful Christian and vote for Dems. sue me.
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:33:44 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: dubyaismypresident
the game should have been a little better, and the total should have been higher, but No Vinny, meant a rookie sixth round pick playing for 4 quarters....
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:36:52 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: RikaStrom
Mmph!
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:38:11 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: RikaStrom
Try as she might to recall,
Hillary could not elucidate
Shredded details of it all
'cept claims the vast right wing doomed her fate.
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:40:09 AM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Unable to find a liberal capable of elucidating credible comments worth quoting in this tag line.)
To: secret garden; xsmommy
The writer raises an interesting question.....
Still, I wholeheartedly agree with C.S. Lewis, who wrote that a theocracy (a government based solely on religious laws) would be the worst kind of dictatorship, because it would attempt to control all aspects of life, leaving no sphere private - because it was organized "for our own good."
Considering that the lefts real religion is Secular Humanism, are they hurling us toward a non-theocracy theocracy?
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:41:09 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: RikaStrom; xsmommy
Lucy dated Ricky Ricardo.
)8-])
To: TheGrimReaper
babaloo.....: )
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:45:18 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Fawnn
Attempts elucidation via prevarication...
[B!tch]</font
To: xsmommy
Ay caramba!
Lucy.... you got a lotta 'splainin' to do!
To: RikaStrom
Frank Rich attempts elucidation with respect to Mel's movie, without having
seen it.
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:50:56 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
I will have to go back and read that when I have more time.
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To: theDentist
Morning tD. Did you bring enough donuts for everyone?
To: Fawnn
Good Morning Fawnn. Welcome to WFTD. :-)
Hah, Shills got a mind like a steel trap... rusted closed.
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To: xsmommy
Frank Rich attempts elucidation with respect to Mel's movie, without having seen it. Frank Rich is a Clymer.
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:54:24 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Ohio Chapter. Original White Devil for Sharpton!)
To: TheGrimReaper
Is that a vulture on her shoulder?
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To: dubyaismypresident
i saw something earlier today on WorldNetDaily, critiquing Frank's diatribe, which was very good, but now i can't find it. i can't recall the author's name, maybe Brennan?
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posted on
08/04/2003 5:55:46 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
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