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Post by wolf on Feb 14, 2020 0:09:30 GMT
"Word Of The Day"
What is your word of the day? It can be anything.
It could be just one of your favorite words, post it. Add it's definition if you would like to. Or not.
It could a word that describes how you feel that day, good or bad. If you're having a bad day, maybe you might feel like posting a word that describes how you would rather be feeling. It might just help.
Feeling sad, angry, happy, morose, elated....etc...? Post your word. And make your post as long or short as you like.
Have you learned a new word that you have never come across before and want to share it? Post it! Expand other people's vocabulary right a long with your own.
And have a good time posting it all. I'm looking forward to anything that anyone wants to put here, ka-tet.
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Post by wolf on Feb 14, 2020 16:39:09 GMT
Pulcher - Latin: Beautiful
Pulchritude - Physical comeliness
......learned "pulchritude" on the SKMB awhile back, from a post made by GNTLGNT. Didn't know what it meant so I got out the dictionary, and had fun looking it up.
I like Doc Creed's word games like "Five Letters", and in the past have used them to stay in practice and not forget rarely used vocabulary words. I thought this might be a better place to do that. Lol, so I don't go crappin' up other peoples threads too much.
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Post by Dizzy on Feb 14, 2020 17:18:59 GMT
My word of th day is altruistic lol because my husband always says I am one of the most altruistic ladies ever all the time an I looked it up an I guess you could say that...I try to be kind to everyone an respectful to.
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Post by wolf on Feb 14, 2020 17:43:46 GMT
My word of th day is altruistic lol because my husband always says I am one of the most altruistic ladies ever all the time an I looked it up an I guess you could say that...I try to be kind to everyone an respectful to. That is a great word Dizzy! You not only try, you succeed quite winningly.
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Post by Dizzy on Feb 14, 2020 18:38:43 GMT
Thank you wolf an this isa nice thread as well
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Post by wolf on Feb 14, 2020 19:46:38 GMT
Thank you wolf an this isa nice thread as well
You're welcome Dizzy, and thank you, I appreciate that very much.
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Post by wolf on Feb 14, 2020 19:47:26 GMT
Solemn
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Post by drawntokatet on Feb 14, 2020 20:23:03 GMT
Blench
Verb- to shrink;flinch;quail.
What is the origin of blench?
The history of the verb blench is complicated. The uncommon Old English verb blencan “to cheat, deceive” is the direct source of Middle English blenchen, blenken, blinchen, blinken “to move suddenly, dodge, avoid, mislead, deceive.” The various Middle English forms yield both English blench “to shrink, flinch” and blink “to wink the eyes, be startled
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Post by wolf on Feb 14, 2020 20:34:42 GMT
Blench
Verb- to shrink;flinch;quail.
What is the origin of blench?
The history of the verb blench is complicated. The uncommon Old English verb blencan “to cheat, deceive” is the direct source of Middle English blenchen, blenken, blinchen, blinken “to move suddenly, dodge, avoid, mislead, deceive.” The various Middle English forms yield both English blench “to shrink, flinch” and blink “to wink the eyes, be startled
That's great, John would love it! I wonder.....maybe it could be used as a synonym for "feint"? ......I'll look it up later. Thanx drawntokatet!
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Post by wolf on Feb 16, 2020 16:16:09 GMT
Adept
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Post by Dizzy on Feb 16, 2020 22:53:19 GMT
Mellifluous lol i learn from my mama she told me it.
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Post by wolf on Feb 16, 2020 23:23:49 GMT
Mellifluous lol i learn from my mama she told me it. That is awwwrrrrsome Diz knew it must be good cuz i saw the Latin base word "mel" in there, i looked it up. .......and that word would be you.
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Post by wolf on Feb 16, 2020 23:45:11 GMT
Snarky
......i like this word because my favorite writer chef traveller : ANTHONY BOURDAIN used it to describe himself.
.....and it reminds me of our edwardjohn
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Post by wolf on Feb 17, 2020 0:32:26 GMT
Blench
Verb- to shrink;flinch;quail.
What is the origin of blench?
The history of the verb blench is complicated. The uncommon Old English verb blencan “to cheat, deceive” is the direct source of Middle English blenchen, blenken, blinchen, blinken “to move suddenly, dodge, avoid, mislead, deceive.” The various Middle English forms yield both English blench “to shrink, flinch” and blink “to wink the eyes, be startled---------this post makes me remember John introducing me to the word "Petard". .........i had occasion to use it when good Ebdim9th introduced me to "Trebuchet" (on the SKMB....not all that long ago)
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Post by drawntokatet on Feb 17, 2020 13:05:07 GMT
Petard, that's a beauty of a word! John Dalglish would have relished using the word Petard. ORIGIN OF PETARD
1590–1600; < Middle French, equivalent to pet(er) to break wind (derivative of pet < Latin pēditum a breaking wind, orig. neuter of past participle of pēdere to break wind) + -ard -ard
IDIOMS FOR PETARD
hoist by/with one's own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
Trebuchet , what a doozy of a medieval word ! noun
a medieval engine of war with a sling for hurling missiles.
( I signed up for Word of the day to be emailed to me by Dictionary.Com.) Today's word is Lincolnesque. - adjective
like or characteristic of Abraham Lincoln: a Lincolnesque compassion.
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Post by Dizzy on Feb 17, 2020 21:51:22 GMT
Mellifluous lol i learn from my mama she told me it. That is awwwrrrrsome Diz knew it must be good cuz i saw the Latin base word "mel" in there, i looked it up. .......and that word would be you. Thank you Wolf you are nice to say that olfEOEbpO0rxuamBULVg a054
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Post by wolf on Feb 18, 2020 14:40:02 GMT
Resourcefulness
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Post by Dizzy on Feb 19, 2020 15:39:19 GMT
today word is Irie...its a Jamaican word that means everyting ok an fine
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Post by drawntokatet on Feb 20, 2020 15:11:06 GMT
phronesis
noun [froh-nee-sis]
wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
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Post by wolf on Feb 20, 2020 16:44:58 GMT
phronesis
noun [froh-nee-sis]
wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
That's a good one! I liked the "Lincolnesque" one too. All the -esque words can be fun. You can add that suffix to A LOT of words, lol, but often have to plead poetic license.
Statuesque
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