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Earl had often been accused of rambunctious unction in the past, but this time his earnestness was genuine and not in the least bit disorderly.

"I absolutely adore chrysanthemums," he repeated to the attractive young florist behind the counter.
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Word of the Day for Tuesday August 30, 2005

evanescent
\ev-uh-NES-uhnt\, adjective: Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; fleeting.

The Pen which gives. . . permanence to the evanescent thought of a moment.
--Horace Smith, Tin Trumpet

Every tornado is a little different, and they are all capricious, evanescent and hard to get a fix on.
--"Oklahoma Tornado Offers Hints of How a Killer Storm Is Born," New York Times, May 11, 1999

The accidentally famous. . . may write books, appear on talk shows, and, in so doing, attract even greater public attention. This type of celebrity status, of course, is brittle and evanescent.
--Lawrence M. Friedman, The Horizontal Society

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Evanescent is from Latin evanescere, "to vanish," from e-, "from, out of" + vanescere, "to disappear," from vanus, "empty."


/what, me evanescent? :twisted:
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Word of the Day for Wednesday August 31, 2005

venial
\VEE-nee-uhl\, adjective: Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable.

Look less severely on a venial error.
--Jean Racine, Phaedra (translated by Robert Bruce Boswell)

His mistake might in other circumstances have seemed a venial one.
--Michael Knox Beran, The Last Patrician

Committing adultery was a mortal sin, while eating meat on Fridays was a venial sin.
--Sheryl McCarthy, "O'Connor Proposal for Meatless Day Is Thoughtless," Newsday, August 12, 1996

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Venial comes from Latin venia, "grace, indulgence, favor." Venial sins are contrasted with mortal ones.

It is not to be confused with venal, which means "capable of being bought; salable; open to bribery," and comes from Latin venum, "sale." Remember that venial, like sin, has an i in it.

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Word of the Day for Thursday September 1, 2005

capacious
\kuh-PAY-shuhs\, adjective: Able to contain much; roomy; spacious.

Litter was picked up non stop during the week (mostly by that nice governor with the capacious pockets).
--Faysal Mikdadi, "'Why shouldn't it be like this all the time?'" The Guardian, September 2, 2002

Out of those capacious receptacles he brought forth a small bottle of Scotch whiskey, a lemon, and some lump sugar.
--Ellen M. Calder, "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman," The Atlantic, June 1907

Is it worth pointing out that the boot seems remarkably capacious for a little car?
--Giles Smith, "Er, what's the sixth gear for?" The Guardian, January 8, 2002

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Capacious is derived from Latin capax, capac-, "able to hold or contain."
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Short version:
Possessing such an evanescent thoughts was a venial offense in such a capacious mind.

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As part of the initiation, Joan had to undergo the treatment. There was little choice if she really wanted to belong, they would have been able to tell if she tried to fake it. Besides, all of the literature about the process declared it to be the only guaranteed way to find true bliss. As she debated the pro and cons of the situation, Joan was struck with a singular thought that wiped away all argument against following through. “If I do this I will never have to worry about anything again.â€
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Word of the Day for Friday September 2, 2005

trammel
\TRAM-uhl\, noun: 1. A kind of net for catching birds, fish, etc. 2. A kind of shackle used for making a horse amble. 3. Something that impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle. 4. An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire. 5. An instrument for drawing ellipses. 6. An instrument for aligning or adjusting parts of a machine.

transitive verb: 1. To entangle, as in a net; to enmesh. 2. To hamper; to hinder the activity, progress, or freedom of.

I feel she dances a symbol of human happiness as it should be, free from unnatural trammels.
--John Sloan, quoted in New York Modern, by William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff

Is it a dull or uninstructive picture to see a whole people shaking suddenly off the trammels of reason, and running wild after a golden vision, refusing obstinately to believe that it is not real, till, like a deluded hind running after an ignis fatuus, they are plunged into a quagmire?
--Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

In fact, corporate governance is based on the belief that managers (like anyone else) work best not when their freedom is trammelled but when they are made to account for what they do with it.
--"The way ahead," The Economist, January 29, 1994

It is quite inconsistent to claim to promote an enterprise society on the one hand and to trammel it with regulations on the other.
--Sir Iain Vallance, quoted in "Stop squeezing business, CBI," by Charlotte Denny and Michael White, Guardian, May 22, 2002

And it encourages the coercive use of political power to wipe out choice, forbid experimentation, shortcircuit feedback, and trammel progress.
--Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies

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Trammel is from Old French tramail, from Late Latin tremaculum, a kind of net for catching fish, from Latin tres, "three" + macula, "a mesh."
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Word of the Day for Tuesday September 6, 2005

cavil
\KAV-uhl\, intransitive verb: To raise trivial or frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.

transitive verb: To raise trivial objections to.

noun: A trivial or frivolous objection.

Insiders with their own strong views, after all, tend to cavil about competing ideas and stories they consider less than comprehensive.
--Laurence I. Barrett, "Dog-Bites-Dog," Time, October 30, 1989

It may seem churlish, amid the selection of so much glory, to cavil at a single omission, but I do think a great opportunity has been missed.
--Tom Rosenthal, "Rome sweet Rome," New Statesman, February 5, 2001

He was determined not to be diverted from his main pursuit by cavils or trifles.
--William Safire, Scandalmonger

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Cavil comes from Latin cavillari, "to jeer, to quibble," from cavilla, "scoffing."
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Word of the Day for Wednesday September 7, 2005

farrago
\fuh-RAH-go; fuh-RAY-go\, noun; plural farragoes: A confused mixture; an assortment; a medley.

Ivan Illich writes "a farrago of sub-Marxist cliches, false analogies, non sequiturs, false or bent facts and weird prophesies."
--"The Paul Johnson Enemies List," New York Times, September 18, 1977

Roy Hattersley will upset much of Scotland by calling Walter Scott's lvanhoe "a farrago of historical nonsense combined with maudlin romance."
--"Literary classics panned by critics," Independent, January 18, 1999

From the moment the story of the Countess of Wessex and the Sheikh of Wapping broke, there has been a farrago of rumour, speculation and fantasy of which virtually every newspaper should be ashamed.
--Roy Greenslade, "A sting in the tale," The Guardian, April 9, 2001

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Farrago comes from the Latin farrago, "a mixed fodder for cattle," hence "a medley, a hodgepodge," from far, a kind of grain.
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European trade with China = embargoed farragoes raring to go

Chinese trade with United States = allegroed farragoes causing great woe

N. Korea disarmament talks = farragoes, farragoes, farragoes, DOH!!
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The huntress cast her verbal trammel at the target, whose only defense was to cavil about the future. It was no use, the woman had anticipated every escape way before engaging the prey. After a few days of planning and short trip to Vegas, the hunt ended with a farrago of wedding songs.
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Word of the Day for Thursday September 8, 2005

demagogue
\DEM-uh-gog\, noun: 1. A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace. 2. A leader of the common people in ancient times.

This was to have held a sculpture of a Roman charioteer driving four horses, but the work was never completed, leaving behind what looks like a diving board or a futurist balcony, ideally suited for a demagogue exhorting a throng below.
--Michael Z. Wise, "A Fascist Utopia Adapted for Today," New York Times, July 11, 1999

A consummate demagogue, McCarthy played upon cold war emotions and made charges so fantastic that frightened people believed the worst.
--Arthur Herman, Joseph McCarthy

Even when he showed his true colors as a demagogue and trickster, Stalin did so in such a crisp and weighty, confidence-inspiring manner that he bewitched not only his conversational partner but himself as well.
--Milovan Djilas, Fall of the New Class

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Demagogue derives from Greek demagogos, "a leader of the people," from demos, "the people" + agogos, "leading, one who leads," from agein, "to lead."
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Word of the Day for Friday September 9, 2005

quaff
\KWOFF; KWAFF\, transitive verb: To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.

intransitive verb: To drink largely or luxuriously.

noun: A drink quaffed.

He gets drunk with his guides, makes eyes at the girls and gamely quaffs snake wine.
--Pico Iyer, "Snake Wine and Socialism," New York Times, December 15, 1991

If you were patient and kept your nose clean, you could slowly, almost effortlessly, rise from serf to squire and maybe even all the way to knight, in which case you, too, would be entitled to quaff bowl-size martinis at midday.
--Charles McGrath, "Office Romance," New York Times Magazine, March 5, 2000

Instead they consume caviar, feed off foie gras, chomp exotic cheeses, and quaff champagne.
--"Internet Shopper," Times (London), August 11, 2000


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"Kwoff" is also how a person from Brooklyn says "cough."
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Word of the Day for Monday September 12, 2005

ostentation
\os-ten-TAY-shuhn\, noun: Excessive or pretentious display; boastful showiness.

In a city where the wealthy are known for ostentation, many are now buying low-profile economy cars to fool kidnappers and thieves.
--Anthony Faiola, "Brazil's Elites Fly Above Their Fears," Washington Post, June 1, 2002

After his marriage, when Francis finally had enough money to indulge his tastes, his extravagance and ostentation in matters of dress frequently occasioned comment.
--Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart, Hostage to Fortune

It is too early to probe the cause or say how far the staggering ostentation of the wealthy fomented the sullen disaffection of the poor.
--Stephen McKenna, Sonia

The Puritan leadership was especially distressed by the sartorial ostentation of the lower classes, who were supposed to content themselves with "raiment suitable to the order in which God's providence has placed them."
--Patricia O'Toole, Money & Morals in America: A History

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Ostentation comes from Latin ostentatio, ostentation-, from ostentare, "to display," frequentative of ostendere, "to hold out, to show," from ob-, obs-, "in front of, before," + tendere, "to stretch, to stretch out, to present."
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Word of the Day for Tuesday September 13, 2005

officious
\uh-FISH-uhs\, adjective: Marked by excessive eagerness in offering services or advice where they are neither requested nor needed; meddlesome.

Ian Holm plays a well-meaning but officious lawyer who tries to make the grieving families sue for damages.
--John Simon, "Minus Four," National Review, February 9, 1998

The guy was an officious twerp, but Luke and Pete were vagrants, and a railroad employee had the right to throw them out.
--Ken Follett, Code to Zero

"Why don't you mind your own business, ma'am?" roared Bounderby. "How dare you go and poke your officious nose into my family affairs?"
--Charles Dickens, Hard Times

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Officious comes from Latin officiosus, "obliging, dutiful," from officium, "dutiful action, sense of duty, official employment," from opus, "a work, labor" + -ficere, combining form of facere, "to do, to make." It is related to official, "of or pertaining to an office or public trust."


/me just doin' me duty mam. :mrgreen:
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Word of the Day for Wednesday September 14, 2005

afflatus
\uh-FLAY-tuhs\, noun: A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.

Whatever happened to passion and vision and the divine afflatus in poetry?
--Clive Hicks, "From 'Green Man' (Ronsdale)," Toronto Star, November 21, 1999

Aristophanes must have eclipsed them . . . by the exhibition of some diviner faculty, some higher spiritual afflatus.
--John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets

The miraculous spring that nourished Homer's afflatus seems out of reach of today's writers, whose desperate yearning for inspiration only indicates the coming of an age of "exhaustion."
--Benzi Zhang, "Paradox of origin(ality)," Studies in Short Fiction, March 22, 1995

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Afflatus is from Latin afflatus, past participle of afflare, "to blow at or breathe on," from ad-, "at" + flare, "to puff, to blow." Other words with the same root include deflate (de-, "out of" + flare); inflate (in-, "into" + flare); soufflé, the "puffed up" dish (from French souffler, "to puff," from Latin sufflare, "to blow from below," hence "to blow up, to puff up," from sub-, "below" + flare); and flatulent.
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Word of the Day for Thursday September 15, 2005

quorum
\KWOR-uhm\, noun: 1. Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is legally competent to transact business. 2. A select group.

The extraordinary powers of the Senate were vested in twenty-six men, fourteen of whom would constitute a quorum, of which eight would make up a majority.
--Akhil Reed Amar, The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

What other quorum in American history, save those who wrote our constitution, could claim as much impact on our day-to-day lives?
--Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear

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Quorum comes from the Latin quorum, "of whom," from qui, "who." The term arose from the wording of the commission once issued to justices of the peace in England, by which commission it was directed that no business of certain kinds should be done without the presence of one or more specially designated justices.
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Word of the Day for Friday September 16, 2005

hauteur
\haw-TUR; (h)oh-\, noun: Haughty manner, spirit, or bearing; haughtiness; arrogance.

[M]y silence, I hoped, would be taken as expressive of the hauteur of a man who was above it all -- a man with a mission, in fact, a mission authorized from somewhere on high.
--Jeffrey Tayler, Facing the Congo

Sheikhs and presidents have often heard little about the royal family's follies, and don't object to the hauteur and self-importance that remain its inextinguishable traits.
--Hugo Young, "Blair and the Queen," The Guardian, April 10, 2001

That self-deprecation and lack of hauteur are typical of the earthy style that enables Powell to get close to his troops in a way that many top brass never do.
--"Colin Powell: The master planner of Desert Shield is ready for its ultimate test," People, December 31, 1990

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Hauteur is from the French, from haut, "high," from Latin altus, "high." It is thus related to altitude.
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Word of the Day for Monday September 19, 2005

immure
\ih-MYUR\, transitive verb: 1. To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. 2. To build into a wall. 3. To entomb in a wall.

Not surprisingly, Sally shuddered at the thought of being immured in the black cave, to die slowly and hopelessly, far below the sunny hillside.
--Peter Pierce, "The Fiction of Gabrielle Lord," Australian Literary Studies, October 1999

True, there was a Mughal emperor in Delhi until 1857, but he was emperor in name only, the shadow of a memory, described by Lord Macaulay as 'a mock sovereign immured in a gorgeous state prison'.
--Anthony Read, The Proudest Day

When I tried to think clearly about this, I felt that my mind was immured, that it couldn't expand in any direction.
--Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

Immured by privilege in a way of life that offered little scope, army wives were often enfeebled by boredom.
--Frances Spalding, Duncan Grant: A Biography

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Immure comes from Medieval Latin immurare, from Latin in-, "in" + murus, "wall." It is related to mural, a painting applied to a wall.
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Word of the Day for Tuesday September 20, 2005

deliquesce
\del-ih-KWES\, intransitive verb: 1. To melt away or to disappear as if by melting. 2. (Chemistry) To dissolve gradually and become liquid by attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts, acids, and alkalies. 3. To become fluid or soft with age, as certain fungi. 4. To form many small divisions or branches -- used especially of the veins of a leaf.

Now it's high summer, the very high point of the high season, and I've just struggled back from Santa Eulalia with the weekly shop, most of which has already deliquesced into an evil-smelling puddle in the back of the car.
--Paul Richardson, "A postcard from Paul Richardson," Independent, August 19, 1996

His entire countenance seems to deliquesce into a splotch of spreading goo.
--John Simon, "The Underneath," National Review, May 29, 1995

His indifference toward if not hatred for his mother deliquesced, through the writing of this book, into a recognition of his love for her.
--Leslie Schenk, "Rouge Decante," World Literature Today, June 1, 1996

The peaches, pears and grapes progressively spot, dimple, crease, wrinkle, acquire brown patches, green bloom, a fuzz of green-grey fungal filaments, deliquesce to a beige-grey Roquefort and finally compost to a browny-black goo flickering with insects.
--Christopher Hirst, "The weasel," Independent, May 11, 2002

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Deliquesce comes from Latin deliquescere, from de-, "down, from, away" + liquescere, "to melt," from liquere, "to be fluid." It is related to liquid and liquor.
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CLONG: ok, here's your chance to redeem yourself, for last month's faux pas about being unable to string together 8 WOTDs in 2 sentences or less.

C'mon, Curt ... let your linguistic afflatus deliquesce the writer's block that has immured your creative sensibilities. I'm sure we can set aside our usual literary hauteur and predilections towards ostentacious officiality in order to reach a quorum about the success (or failure) of your forthcoming attempt. :deviate:
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There is only one appropriate response to such a challenge from you Brad!
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Nonsense clong,

[scene: A mad scientist is being confonted by the leader of the torch waving peasants after his creation has left one to many swimming pool-sized craters (cf the filk "Wise Men Feared To Tread")]

Ostentatiously, Dr Drachmapetros* quaffed his drink, a farrago of deliquescing body parts, evanescent embalming fluid and unctous green-bubbling-ooze(TM), in an attempt to crack the hauteur of the officious demagogue who was threatening to trammel his afflatus and immure his greatest** creation based on a mere cavail about the venial damage done by his creation's capacious footprints and the weakest of claims that his mob constituted a legal quorum.

Err - that got away from me a bit - be glad there is a limit on the topic review pane. It is a valid constuction though. Incidentally, that is 16:1 word:sentence ratio to brad's 7:2

*I'm getting real fed up of translating Frankenstein into different languages, this is about the third time by my count.
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