Word For The Day, Thursday, August 7, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/7/03 | 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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tenacious \ten*a*shus\, adjective
tenaciously; adverb
tenaciousness; noun

1. Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view.
2. Holding together firmly; cohesive:
3. Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive
4. Tending to retain; retentive:
5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. --Ainsworth.
6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn..

They are free men, tenacious of their liberties and alert to lurking danger. - Ray V Denslow

Etymology: [From Latin ten x, ten c-, holding fast, from ten re, to hold. See ten- in Indo-European Roots.]

[Conspiracy Guy]

You use it to drain the noodles.

[xsmommy]

i have met hobbes, so i know that isn't him, but that guy isn't bad either.

[Gabz]

Flurry - I wasn't referring to chronilocigal age, I was referring to length of participation in the classroom.

I think I'll go bury my head under a rock and stop trying to be funny when it's raining and my foot hurts.

I retwisted the ankle I sprained last week - hurts more now than it did when I first did it.

[gas_dr]

SUre, make fun of us now, but how are you going to feel when I am standing at your head saying "take a few deep breaths" -- all of the sudden you won't call me a smurf anymore. And NO I DO NOT NEED A PULSE OX AND AM NOT A SMURF -- although i do look kind of pastey and pukey in the blues -- i like the green much better....

[hobbes1]

Your affadavit @ 177 ws more convincing ; )

[Gabz]

Affadavits mean didly to me - that's no proof.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The Clintons at the eleventh hour
Are tenacious, to keep Gray in power
But the joke of it all
Is they never "recall"
Though their memoirs could fill up a tower

[xsmommy]

well i didn't love my last anesthesiologist when i had the tubal done after xsbrownie, bc the line had moved overnight (they left it in and let me sleep on it, after giving birth the previous night, for the tubal scheduled for the next AM). no matter how much $hit they pumped into me, i was feeling like a roast on a carving board, so they had to knock me flat out and i was a drugged zombie for the next 24 hours after that fiasco. and here i sit, a lawyer, and no suit was filed. despite the nurse telling me when i finally awoke, gee, we thought we lost you there...

[xsmommy]

memory dims over time darling ; )

[Conspiracy Guy]

So many ID's in here is this him?

[xsmommy]

i am thinking he must use that one when he wants to pick up DU chicks....

[Conspiracy Guy]

Ankles are heck unless you have those Hillary Elephant Ankles.

[NeoCaveman]

Yikes. Someone put that trashcan back over his head.

[xsmommy]

CJ. PLEASE? what is going on in your State???

[xsmommy]

i have a great deal of difficulty imagining Mary Matalin's life, rolling over, and opening your eyes to....that.....

[xsmommy]

Another "catholic" dares open their piehole to the Pope concerning Church business. the effrontery is astounding. yesterday that kennedy that never worked a day in his life and today ketchupboy.

[Gabz]

I definitely DO NOT have those kinds of ankles.

One of the funniest things about me and twisting my ankle - over the years any time I have done it I have been wearing sensible shoes - last week I was wearing sneakers. I have never done damage to my ankle when wearing high heels.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The reason is you walk more carefully in heels. Is this Hobbes?

[doubled]

Sharpton is indeed tenacious
In citing us all as racist
But the real problem
For Rev hobgoblin
Is he's comic relief for us.

[xsmommy]

yer getting warmer....