GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)
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uxorial
Pronunciation: /ˌəkˈsôrēəl, əgˈzôr-/
adjective
of or relating to a wife.
Origin:
early 19th century: from Latin uxor 'wife' + -ial
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There has generally been an unspoken uxorial request that we gentlemen do not visit the estaminet with the intent to enjoy too much divertissement of watching the girls walking by.
Pronunciation: /ˌəkˈsôrēəl, əgˈzôr-/
adjective
of or relating to a wife.
Origin:
early 19th century: from Latin uxor 'wife' + -ial
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There has generally been an unspoken uxorial request that we gentlemen do not visit the estaminet with the intent to enjoy too much divertissement of watching the girls walking by.
Words are a game. Sometimes I play alone, but I encourage YOU to play, too.
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Good one.Algot Runeman wrote:uxorial
I wonder. Has there ever been a demonstration of suffragettes all brandishing a rolling pin?
That would have been a uxorial statement with clout.
(Talk about girls walking by)
The first such may have happened in Uxor when Amesses II, Egypt's dyslexic pharaoh, refused to let his oncubines play illiards in the local staminet.
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easement
Pronunciation: /ˈēzmənt/
noun
1 Law a right to cross or otherwise use someone else’s land for a specified purpose.
2 literary the state or feeling of comfort or peace: time brings easement
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French aisement, from aisier (see ease)
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Maggie, in typical uxorial manner, granted her female relatives an easement over her husband. They were always allowed to judge and criticize anything husband Jonathan did, even to his face.
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[So, OK, this image more typically illustrates the concept of an easement. How many of you out there are really paying attention that closely?]
Pronunciation: /ˈēzmənt/
noun
1 Law a right to cross or otherwise use someone else’s land for a specified purpose.
2 literary the state or feeling of comfort or peace: time brings easement
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French aisement, from aisier (see ease)
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Maggie, in typical uxorial manner, granted her female relatives an easement over her husband. They were always allowed to judge and criticize anything husband Jonathan did, even to his face.
Cat Sidh
[So, OK, this image more typically illustrates the concept of an easement. How many of you out there are really paying attention that closely?]
Words are a game. Sometimes I play alone, but I encourage YOU to play, too.
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That looks like an ex-girlfriend accosting Al Capone.Algot Runeman wrote:easement
Is she claiming some easement?
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Looks more like cease-and-desistment to me.
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ossuary
Pronunciation: /ˈäSHo͞oˌerē, ˈäs(y)o͞o-/
noun (plural ossuaries)
a container or room into which the bones of dead people are placed.
Origin:
mid 17th century: from late Latin ossuarium, formed irregularly from Latin os, oss- 'bone'
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Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones.
Mary marveled at the ossuary.
Pronunciation: /ˈäSHo͞oˌerē, ˈäs(y)o͞o-/
noun (plural ossuaries)
a container or room into which the bones of dead people are placed.
Origin:
mid 17th century: from late Latin ossuarium, formed irregularly from Latin os, oss- 'bone'
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Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones.
Mary marveled at the ossuary.
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I think the ossuary would be more appropriate for All Hallows' Eve...
Spoiler: show
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There are three bones with a partly spherical surface in the human body.Algot Runeman wrote:ossuary
But in this particur ossuary I see only craniums and femurs.
They must have thought the humerus too humorous?
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phishing
Pronunciation: /ˈfiSHiNG/
noun
the activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial information by posing as a legitimate company: [as modifier]: phishing exercises in which criminals create replicas of commercial Web sites
Derivatives
phish
verb
Origin:
1990s: inspired by fishing, on the pattern of phreaking
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Social engineering, what a term. It's the effort to get you to do an insecure thing, especially with regard to a computer, when you should know better. Instead, I like to use the term phishing.
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Pronunciation: /ˈfiSHiNG/
noun
the activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial information by posing as a legitimate company: [as modifier]: phishing exercises in which criminals create replicas of commercial Web sites
Derivatives
phish
verb
Origin:
1990s: inspired by fishing, on the pattern of phreaking
Matt Simmer
Social engineering, what a term. It's the effort to get you to do an insecure thing, especially with regard to a computer, when you should know better. Instead, I like to use the term phishing.
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Are you sure you don't want to wait and see where Hurricane Isaac will go phishing with insurance cons and fake disaster relief aid?Algot Runeman wrote:phishing
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demulcent
\ dih-MUHL-suhnt \Hear it pronounced here.adjective:
1.
Soothing or mollifying, as a medicinal substance.
noun:
1.
A demulcent substance or agent, often mucilaginous, as for soothing or protecting an irritated mucous membrane.
This guy reminds me of someone, but his name escapes me just now.
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payola
Pronunciation: /pāˈōlə/
noun
the practice of bribing someone to use their influence or position to promote a particular product or interest: if a record company spends enough money on payola, it can make any record a hit
Origin:
1930s: from pay1 + -ola as in Victrola, the name of a make of gramophone
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It seems droll that E.P.S. has accepted payola,filling the WotD void with his creative Crayola™, settling for a decadent dram of demulcent from the estaminet. Yet, here is the alternate, posted on the same day.
Thanks, E.P.S.
Pronunciation: /pāˈōlə/
noun
the practice of bribing someone to use their influence or position to promote a particular product or interest: if a record company spends enough money on payola, it can make any record a hit
Origin:
1930s: from pay1 + -ola as in Victrola, the name of a make of gramophone
Mario Klingemann
It seems droll that E.P.S. has accepted payola,filling the WotD void with his creative Crayola™, settling for a decadent dram of demulcent from the estaminet. Yet, here is the alternate, posted on the same day.
Thanks, E.P.S.
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Then there's this other guy who thinks there's a lot of payola to be made with demulcent.Algot Runeman wrote:payola
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The 2012 presidential election campaigns are far from demulcent; they are payola on steroids.
In pursuit of truth, justice and the American way, I am starting a write-in campaign:
In pursuit of truth, justice and the American way, I am starting a write-in campaign:
E Pericoloso Sporgersi For President !!!
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Aw ... You make me blush.
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nadir
Pronunciation: /ˈnādər, ˈnādi(ə)r/
noun
[in singular]
the lowest point in the fortunes of a person or organization: they had reached the nadir of their sufferings
Astronomy the point on the celestial sphere directly below an observer. The opposite of zenith.
Origin:
late Middle English (in the astronomical sense): via French from Arabic naẓīr (as-samt) 'opposite (to the zenith)'
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Though he spoke long and well, it was clear to the audience that his cause was lost. He had reached his nadir. Nonetheless, after the meeting broke up, he continued. The notable thing about pits is that while you may descend into one, you may also climb out.
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verbiage
Pronunciation: /ˈvərbē-ij/
noun
speech or writing that uses too many words or excessively technical expressions.
Origin:
early 18th century: from French, from obsolete verbeier 'to chatter', from verbe 'word' (see verb)
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Creedon gathered his thoughts, always somewhat a jumble, as he stepped to the podium.
"Welcome to the conference. Let the learning begin! First up, John Savage, the university's preeminent invertebrate biologist."
There, he thought. Let the conference be remembered for the verbiage of the other speakers, not his.
Pronunciation: /ˈvərbē-ij/
noun
speech or writing that uses too many words or excessively technical expressions.
Origin:
early 18th century: from French, from obsolete verbeier 'to chatter', from verbe 'word' (see verb)
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Creedon gathered his thoughts, always somewhat a jumble, as he stepped to the podium.
"Welcome to the conference. Let the learning begin! First up, John Savage, the university's preeminent invertebrate biologist."
There, he thought. Let the conference be remembered for the verbiage of the other speakers, not his.
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IMHO, Microsoft's Technet Bulletins have always been verbose, not to say obscure verbiage.Algot Runeman wrote:verbiage
I think that this time I'd better refrain from posting an example.
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E.P.S.
Are you sure you are not simply avoiding the verbiage example because of your routine signing of non-disclosure agreements?
Are you sure you are not simply avoiding the verbiage example because of your routine signing of non-disclosure agreements?
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Read enough NDAs, EULAs, NDNs, OOOs and such, and signing them becomes an OCD.Algot Runeman wrote:... routine signing of non-disclosure agreements?
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mephitic
Pronunciation: /məˈfitik/
adjective
(especially of a gas or vapor) foul-smelling; noxious.
Origin:
early 17th century: from late Latin mephiticus, from mephitis 'noxious exhalation'
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The dank cellar assaulted Mary with a mephitic draft as she opened the bulkhead storm door. She swallowed hard as fought down the urge to empty her stomach onto the already cluttered wooden steps. She poked her umbrella into the almost clothlike cobwebs that belled outward as if reaching for her. The odor washed over her more strongly as she swept the cobweb barrier aside.
Pronunciation: /məˈfitik/
adjective
(especially of a gas or vapor) foul-smelling; noxious.
Origin:
early 17th century: from late Latin mephiticus, from mephitis 'noxious exhalation'
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The dank cellar assaulted Mary with a mephitic draft as she opened the bulkhead storm door. She swallowed hard as fought down the urge to empty her stomach onto the already cluttered wooden steps. She poked her umbrella into the almost clothlike cobwebs that belled outward as if reaching for her. The odor washed over her more strongly as she swept the cobweb barrier aside.
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Wherever Mephisto passed through, he left behind a mephitic stench, the pervading odour of hydrogen sulfide.Algot Runeman wrote:mephitic
Hence mephisteggs for rotten eggs.
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'Tis a pity that Mephistopheles
Wasn't bitten by a roving Anopheles
But the bug had to quit it
'Cause Ol' Meph was mephitic
And played host to a circus of sand fleas.
Wasn't bitten by a roving Anopheles
But the bug had to quit it
'Cause Ol' Meph was mephitic
And played host to a circus of sand fleas.
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Hey! A limerick without sex!laurie wrote:'Tis a pity that Mephistopheles
Wasn't bitten by a roving Anopheles
But the bug had to quit it
'Cause Ol' Meph was mephitic
And played host to a circus of sand fleas.
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cathexis
Pronunciation: /kəˈTHeksis/
noun
Psychoanalysis
the concentration of mental energy on one particular person, idea, or object (especially to an unhealthy degree).
Origin:
1920s: from Greek kathexis 'retention', translating German Libidobesetzung, coined by Freud
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Laurie's limerick and E.P.S. positive reaction indicate a healthy breadth of verbal interest. They both clearly avoid erotic cathexis
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