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Word For The Day, Monday, September 15, 2003
The Verbivores | 9/15/03 | Teacher

Posted on 09/15/2003 5:21:37 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....


adumbrate \AD-uhm-brayt\, verb:
adumbrating, adumbrates, adumbrated; transitive verb
adumbration noun
adumbratively; adverb
adumbrative; adjective

1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline.
2. To foreshadow; to intimate.
3. To overshadow; to shade.
4. To disclose partially or guardedly.

Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated.
--L. Taylor.

Etymology: [Latin adumbr re, adumbr t-, to represent in outline : ad-, ad- + umbra, shadow.]


TOPICS: Education; Humor; Poetry; Word For The Day
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To: honeygrl
Hey Honey! too bad you don't work at Walmart anymore!!! : )
181 posted on 09/15/2003 9:42:02 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Hegewisch Dupa; honeygrl
hey HD? you a dad yet? honeygrl may yet end up in Playboy. and you won't have to settle for that Hooters uniform pic.... ; )
182 posted on 09/15/2003 9:44:28 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Flurry
Or just kiss Dixie Sass.

ROFL.....that is, by far, your best line yet!

183 posted on 09/15/2003 9:52:22 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Some names lend themselves to poemetrics. Others are dang hard.
184 posted on 09/15/2003 9:54:05 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Who are you and why am I here?)
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To: RikaStrom
Christiana Amonpour, also known as the war slut, speaks abumbratively about the White House and Fox News. She also speaks adumbraodatively.
185 posted on 09/15/2003 9:59:13 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (This tagline is 100% Ben & JayLo free.)
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To: RikaStrom
Morning Teacher!!!!!

adumbrate \AD-uhm-brayt\, verb:
adumbrating, adumbrates, adumbrated; transitive verb
adumbration noun
adumbratively; adverb
adumbrative; adjective


1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline.
2. To foreshadow; to intimate.
3. To overshadow; to shade.
4. To disclose partially or guardedly.

I have to think about this one...
thinking, thinking, ow, thinking, ouch, thinking, I smell smoke, thinking, hmmmmmmmmmm...
186 posted on 09/15/2003 10:00:13 AM PDT by dixie sass (GOD bless America)
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To: xsmommy
LOL too bad I quit my job there.... I was a size 2 when I worked there so I might've had a chance.
187 posted on 09/15/2003 10:02:35 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: xsmommy
In complete agreement, wherever she hits...
188 posted on 09/15/2003 10:04:31 AM PDT by dixie sass (GOD bless America)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
cute, but methinks i'm gonna stay with the continental this time around. gonna be dark blue tho instead of the red/brown currently.

electronic tech is on call and will triple-test the electtronics. don't want anythiing to go haywire like last time. I'm just a tad nervous.
189 posted on 09/15/2003 10:05:19 AM PDT by camle (not even a water balloon fight can rouse these dullards!)
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To: xsmommy; RikaStrom
btw, has anyone mentioned that as of today there are exactly 100 days until Christmas?!
190 posted on 09/15/2003 10:15:42 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
I suggested he cancel all work plans for everyone for both Thursday and Friday......

Now you're using a hurricane as an excuse to get your jollies for two days? No wonder a sex maniac like you is my hero!

191 posted on 09/15/2003 10:22:08 AM PDT by Argh
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To: xsmommy; Flurry
Yeah, why didn't you tell us? We would have understood!
192 posted on 09/15/2003 10:36:43 AM PDT by dixie sass (GOD bless America)
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To: VRWCmember
No, no one had mentioned that
193 posted on 09/15/2003 10:37:02 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Impeach the judges of the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals)
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To: xsmommy
Hurricane Hugo, when it hit land traveled as far inland as Charlotte, North Carolina then turned and kept going all the way to, I believe, Maine.

The majority of people don't realize that hurricanes don't stop at waters edge...
194 posted on 09/15/2003 10:39:48 AM PDT by dixie sass (GOD bless America)
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To: dixie sass
More fun to engage in nut wars. I started to tell yall but we were having too much fun.
195 posted on 09/15/2003 10:41:34 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Who are you and why am I here?)
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To: xsmommy
Kid still in holding pattern.

And "settling" for a Hooter's outfit is a bad choice of words. Ain't nothing wrong with orange hot pants.

196 posted on 09/15/2003 10:49:59 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: theDentist
LOL! Now that's cold.

A+

197 posted on 09/15/2003 10:58:27 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: Gabz; xsmommy
LOL, I didn't do it, the dang dog did it!

Poor thing, we both were really not moving well on Sunday. I think she rattled her little brain box too, but since she already has black eyes, you couldn't see the bruising.

198 posted on 09/15/2003 11:00:47 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: CholeraJoe
Wait til your boys are as big as Miss Thena. OOf, that girl has got some power behind her. :-)
199 posted on 09/15/2003 11:01:35 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: Texan5
I saw that the bent one was doing his bit to sink the rest of davis' career. Slimey.

A+

200 posted on 09/15/2003 11:02:15 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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