Word For The Day, Friday, August 22, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/22/03 | 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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rapacious \ruh-PAY-shus\, adjective:
rapaciousness, rapacity; noun
rapaciously; adverb

1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence.
3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious.

[Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim
--Milton.

Etymology: [From Latin rap x, rap c-, from rapere, to seize. See rep- in Indo-European Roots.]

[Laura Earl]

No, not really, usually no more than 2 inches. She, on the other hand, usually does wear high heels.

Dimbulb indeed!

[xsmommy]

she sounds like she is making digs under cover of nice conversation, is that how she comes across in person? i mean the whole common law bit is SOOOOO rude and i can just hear some suthren b!tch saying, now why do you need a petite dress, you ain't petite....

[EODGUY]

"mine are back on. b-o-r-i-n-g."

Point of parliamentary procedure......doesn't it take a full WFTD 2/3 majority vote to rescind the essence of Commando Friday?

Hobbster....I think this is anarchy!

[xsmommy]

hey, it's me, LE, and you and we are 2/3.

[xsmommy]

hobbes peeking his head in the door every half hour doesn't count as a person!

[hobbes1]

Nope. I said COmmando First thing this am. If you weren;t lollygagging trying to lure some helpless hobbledehoy in off the streets, you would have seen that Sloth.

[xsmommy]

so you said it first, big dang deal. you aren't doing a thing to make this classroom interesting and LE and i got bored.

[xsmommy]

hobbledehoy

thanks for using my word ! the lawn guys were here first thing.

[secret garden]

Commando is not appropriate when one has to do volunteer duty at an elementary school.

[Laura Earl]

I'm sure that is what she is doing. She comes across as this major league amiable, but I don't trust her one bit! She's just miserable because she has but on about 20 lbs this summer, and has developed IBS. :)

[EODGUY]

I think I've been disenfranchised.....my ballot was never collected!

[xsmommy]

IBS= irritable b!tch syndrome? i am guessing, never heard of this one.

[xsmommy]

no, we collected your vote, you were the 1/3 voting FOR keepign them off.

[secret garden]

Shouldn't that have helped her to lose 20, the hard way?

[Laura Earl]

And she is a REDNECK. When NASCAR comes to Talladega, AL, she takes vacation time to camp out with her kind. Then she brings pics to work so we can see what fun she's had.

[secret garden]

Bowel.

[xsmommy]

OMG LMAO< is that irritable bowel syndrome? i wasn't thinking med condition!

[Laura Earl]

B=Bowel

[xsmommy]

oh good grief.

[hobbes1]

Yes, and hence my sentence....lol