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.]

[TheGrimReaper]

Hey! Teach used that dreadful word "niggardly" in today's WFTD lesson!
Shouldn't she be forced to resign, pay reparations, or go on the NAACP "apology tour"????

I sincerely hope the PC Police aren't monitoring this thread.

[xsmommy]

damn, argh.... fascinating stuff.

[Texan5]

I was five when T5bro was born. We became very close early on, and still are, even though we played occassional mean tricks on one another. Eventually, he wouldn't let me boss him around any more, and pushed me into a wall to prove his point when I grabbed his arm to drag him someplace I wanted him to go. I realized then that he was as big as me, and a lot stronger, so I conceded the point.

[xsmommy]

i think lunch with jesse jackson might just be the penalty for miss rika....

[TheGrimReaper]

That is "cruel and unusual", by any known standard.

[xsmommy]

that's funny! i remember that day like yesterday too!

i like xsbro, he has the same warped sense of humor that i do.

[Texan5]

You were as bad as I was...

[Argh]

Off to the races, you might say.

[xsmommy]

you need to ping WR to your penile post. seems up her alley, so to speak ; )

[Laura Earl]

My Jr Achievement training is done.

[Argh]

Xs says you need a ping to the link in # 260.

[Texan5]

I beat my bro on the head with his own tennis shoe one day when I came home and found him in my room reading juicy stuff from my diary to two of his friends. I also took his shoes away in a field full of stickers on our grandparents' ranch after he pushed me off the ladder of the hayloft because I wouldn't let him go up first.

[Laura Earl]

I'm 3.5 years older than LEbro, and the day he came home from the hospital, I smashed my thumb on the lid of the water meter. Still don't know why everyone coming to the house to see him were more interested in the baby than my smashed thumb!

[xsmommy]

you know it sounds to me like he needs a beating for that, even today! ; )

[Texan5]

Money was spent so these researchers could play with artificial naughty bits and cornstarch???

[xsmommy]

oh another thing i loved to do, was if my mom was in the next room, and xsbro and i were in the living room watching tv. i would, out of the clear blue sky say, Michael, QUIT IT! and my mom would yell at him. hilarious....

[Argh]

It isn't only the governor recall which displays California tenaciously attempting to be goofier than Canaduh.

[xsmommy]

and there was the related article on how penis size is not related to feet. guess we can all breathe easier now. huh?

[Texan5]

At that age, it wouldn't have made any sense to me, either. Hell, at five I thought the relatives were coming to visit me when I saw them at the door. And I didn't even have a smashed thumb.

[TheGrimReaper]

"semen displacement device"

Soon-to-be-adopted jargon of college freshmen worldwide.