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Word For The Day, Monday, 1/21/02, Third Annual Day of Repudiation
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| 1/21/02
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Posted on 01/21/2002 6:01:33 AM PST 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. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....
repudiate \re*pyoo"dee*ate\ transitive verb
repudiated, repudiating, repudiates
repudiative; adjective
repudiation; noun
repudiator; noun
1. To reject the validity or authority of: Chaucer... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it (Joyce Carol Oates).
2. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.
3. To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.
4a. To disown (a child, for example).
4b. To refuse to have any dealings with.
5. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. --Prynne.
6. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. --Bolingbroke.
7. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.
Etymology: Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare, from repudium rejection of a prospective spouse, divorce, probably from re- + pudEre to shame. Date: 1545
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
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To: Slip18
Trick? what trick? tell me, tell me, tell me (I think I have though LOL)
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:05:08 AM PST
by
TxBec
To: RikaStrom
I REPUDIATE that today is even a holiday. I am at work today, like I am most Monday mornings.
Banks, schools, and government buildings are closed, but in most cities, their local governments don't REPUDIATE themselves from collecting fees (i.e. feed those parking meters). One good thing, lot less traffic this morning. No REPUDIATION on that piece of good news.
To: RikaStrom
British foreign secretary, Jack Straw has condemned the treatment of detainees in Cuba. Attorney General Ashcroft has repudiated these allegations.
Comment #24 Removed by Moderator
To: TxBec; gabz
You came in third and gabz came in fourth.
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:05:44 AM PST
by
Slip18
To: RikaStrom
first? Top Ten?
Morning Guys, Gals,
Please welcome a new FReepr. My son, almost 12, now goes by the screen name, GrimmFreeper.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:06:07 AM PST
by
LonePalm
To: dubyaismypresident; Slip18; TxBec
Well, well, looks like you three are in the money today.
To: one_particular_harbour
Morning, OPH!
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:06:16 AM PST
by
Slip18
To: Slip18
I think so! I never told anyone. Me neither, not a single student.
To: RikaStrom
money??? :: perk ::
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:07:02 AM PST
by
TxBec
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To: one_particular_harbour
Still breathless over my joke, eh? I'd heard that one before.
To: LoanPalm; GrimmFreeper
We'll watch for him, LP.
I want to ask him about the Disney Cruise!
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:07:32 AM PST
by
Slip18
To: RikaStrom
Leave it to a FReeper to repudiatethe author of an oppp-ed piece.
Be Serious about Smoke is a piece from one of my local papers yesterday and is allegedly written by an MD. An astute FReeper noted that there is such a person lilsted as a professor at the local university, but iot says nothing about him being an MD. A search of the local yellow pages also reveals no such MD in, at least the lower part, the state.
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:07:46 AM PST
by
Gabz
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To: one_particular_harbour
I love it when you talk to me that way . . .
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:08:20 AM PST
by
Slip18
To: LoanPalm
Welcome to your son! Mine are lurkers here too.. we do the WFTD together :)
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:08:21 AM PST
by
TxBec
To: dubyaismypresident
You're quick!!!
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:08:32 AM PST
by
Gabz
To: Gabz; xsmommy
Well Gabz, I have a 4 day winning streak to maintain....
To: RikaStrom
Rosie, Paula Poundstone (such an unusual name for one of her persuaion!), Janet Reno, and others in NOW are believed to often repudiate each other.
Perhaps re-pud-she-ate?
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