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Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003
The Verbivores
| 8/12/03
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Posted on 08/12/2003 5:23:18 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....
attenuate \at*ten*u*ate\, verb; adjective
attenuating, attenuates, attenuated; intransitive verb
attenuation; noun
1. To make slender, fine, or small: The drought attenuated the river to a narrow channel.
2. To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken: Medicine attentuated the fever's effect.
3. To lessen the density of; rarefy.
4. Biology: To make (bacteria or viruses) less virulent.
5. Electronics.: To reduce (the amplitude of an electrical signal) with little or no distortion.
6. To become thin, weak, or fine.
7. Reduced or weakened, as in strength, value, or virulence.
8. Botany: Gradually tapering to a slender point.
We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. --Sir F. Palgrave
Etymology: [Latin attenu re, attenu t- : ad-, ad- + tenu re, to make thin (from tenuis, thin. See ten- in Indo-European Roots).]
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To: RikaStrom
Morning, Miss Rika!
Having now attentuated one major denomination, ECUSA, into meaninglessness, I see they are now focusing their efforts elsewhere.
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posted on
08/12/2003 7:45:04 AM PDT
by
Eala
To: Flurry
i had 4 grandparents come off the boat from the Old Country and whose first language was not English. so yeah, i can prove it.
142
posted on
08/12/2003 7:45:12 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Eala
that was my homework also, Eala, but it's ok you copied. I don't think John Paul is going to buy into that crap. he is taking hits from Patches Kennedy and John HorseFace Kerry for his homophobic edicts.
143
posted on
08/12/2003 7:46:39 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
Need more context. The pic itself just doesn't do it. Too much clothing involved. Is there a story that goes with it?
144
posted on
08/12/2003 7:46:59 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: xsmommy
Oh you're new then. Mine go back before the boats.
145
posted on
08/12/2003 7:48:22 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Flurry
they be
snoggin'. Dang Brits just don't talk RIGHT!
146
posted on
08/12/2003 7:48:37 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Flurry
yep, i'm new. first job offer in DC was from the DAR (daughters of the American Revolution) a perk they were offering, to supplement the annual salary of $6500 (below poverty level even in the late 70s) was allowing me to trace my ancestry. Um, don't really need to do that, grannies and grampies were all fresh off the boat.
147
posted on
08/12/2003 7:50:43 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
148
posted on
08/12/2003 7:51:06 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: xsmommy
Well the context ruined that one. BARF.
149
posted on
08/12/2003 7:51:54 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If they make a John Kerry bobble head doll, they will need to make the head smaller.)
To: Gabz
they need to get over Ann. she could bake them in a pie afore they even knew they were cooked.
150
posted on
08/12/2003 7:52:22 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
jax is actually eligible for DAR membership because of hubby's lineage to the Hale family.
151
posted on
08/12/2003 7:52:51 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Flurry
plus sharon is looking authentically dykey in that pic, IMO.
152
posted on
08/12/2003 7:53:10 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
Great analogy.
153
posted on
08/12/2003 7:53:44 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: Gabz
well don't have her apply for a job there, they are dang cheap!
154
posted on
08/12/2003 7:53:47 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
LOL!!!!
155
posted on
08/12/2003 7:55:46 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
To: xsmommy
Hold the line tight. It's been sickening to see the church I grew up in to finally go down in (hellfire) flames -- even when I cut ties 20 years ago I could not have predicted this.
156
posted on
08/12/2003 7:56:45 AM PDT
by
Eala
To: Flurry
Good thing he didn't order a Waldorf salad. That contains walnuts, apples and $50's
157
posted on
08/12/2003 7:56:54 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
To: Eala
Eala, i am reading Armageddon, the most recent in the Left Behind series, and i tell ya. we are living in the End Times. i would lay $ on it. The past year of this homosectional crap is just ramping up and up, trying to ram through to some type of legitimacy and acceptance. If the Catholic church gives way on it, it is truly the end and i better have been raptured up by then.
158
posted on
08/12/2003 7:59:02 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: Flurry
1 pm-at your office or the restaurant?
159
posted on
08/12/2003 7:59:43 AM PDT
by
Laura Earl
(Never wear panties to a party!)
To: P.O.E.
i am starving and you guys are talking about waldorf salads and pancakes. i need to eat lunch and it is only 11 AM.
160
posted on
08/12/2003 7:59:50 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
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