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Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2003
The Verbivores | 8/12/03 | Teacher

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: dubyaismypresident
Sometimes Rush worries me.. (chuckle)

A+

421 posted on 08/12/2003 11:21:01 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: xsmommy
our lovely Dem governor has cut DMV services.

Really - they just expanded the hours here from 5 to 6 days a week. When I got all my proper paperwork together I was in and out in less than 30 minutes when I got my license and hubby was even quicker getting tags.

422 posted on 08/12/2003 11:24:36 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Gabz
that's bc you got 5 dang people living over there, gabz!!! i would be one of the sole native speakers of english in the DMV, and that is counting people on BOTH sides of the counter!
423 posted on 08/12/2003 11:26:15 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Well, she was an old girl, and she did like the rice... :-)
424 posted on 08/12/2003 11:27:21 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: xsmommy
Yeah!
425 posted on 08/12/2003 11:27:57 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: Gabz
so that's gov warner's strategy? increase coverage where 5 people live and have a DMV with 20 windows in No. VA, but only put employees in 3 of them.
426 posted on 08/12/2003 11:27:59 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; Flurry; hobbes1; dubyaismypresident; Argh; Laura Earl
i am sure she watches it sanely and with minimal WHOOPING, HOLLERING and screaming of CUSS WORDS at the top of her lungs.

That's no way to watch football!

427 posted on 08/12/2003 11:29:41 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: xsmommy
if one of us is getting something to drink and ask if the other wants some,

That's not the right way to do it. You say, "Do you want a Dr. Pepper?" When the answer is "Yes," you then respond "Good, get me one too while you're at it."

428 posted on 08/12/2003 11:31:28 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
yeah, but dr. pepper makes me gag ; )
429 posted on 08/12/2003 11:32:18 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
the doc must be very...."healthy"...
430 posted on 08/12/2003 11:33:24 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: VRWCmember; Flurry; Laura Earl
Whew! Thanks, Vast! I thought he was describing their sexual sound effects.
431 posted on 08/12/2003 11:33:43 AM PDT by Argh
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
you are so in need of a smack....
432 posted on 08/12/2003 11:33:58 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
yes. I've been bad. So verrrry bad.....
433 posted on 08/12/2003 11:34:52 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Hegewisch Dupa; xsmommy
BWWAAAAahahahahahahah!!!!!! You'd think she wouldn't complain...
434 posted on 08/12/2003 11:35:26 AM PDT by Argh
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To: RikaStrom
I hope one day that there will be a drug which will attenuate Terry McAwful's mouth.

There is such a drug, it's called Preperation H.

ROFLMAO!

5.56mm

435 posted on 08/12/2003 11:36:13 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: xsmommy
yeah, but dr. pepper makes me gag ; )

Substitute the adult beverage of your choice for the dr. pepper. I was trying to keep the thread family friendly. (yeah right)

436 posted on 08/12/2003 11:36:21 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
the doc must be very...."healthy"...

ROTFLMAO. You are on fire today HD.

437 posted on 08/12/2003 11:37:13 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember; Hegewisch Dupa; Argh
it is so much fun to watch the lightbulb go on over Vast's head....; )
438 posted on 08/12/2003 11:38:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegewisch Dupa; xsmommy; Argh; hobbes1
yeah, but dr. pepper makes me gag ; )
the doc must be very...."healthy"...

You should see what Mr. Pibb does to her! :o

439 posted on 08/12/2003 11:38:53 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
now you've made Mr. pibb sound dirty....
440 posted on 08/12/2003 11:40:45 AM PDT by xsmommy
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