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Re: Wordish Wednesdays - Wednesday word of the day
Phil Liggett is positively garrulous, after a few bottles of wine.
Garrulous, it's not loquacious.
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i read this sentence and laughed because i had no idea what it meant:
"Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it."
link to the use (apologies, it's a political article)
Originally Posted by
Sinclair
Give up cycling, keep riding the bike.
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Originally Posted by
seanile
Said while thumbing his tweedy suspenders.
Thanks Sean, that made my day.
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Originally Posted by
seanile
The whole paragraph is sufficiently wordy to cause my feeble brain to implode...
Will is urging the nation to take the punishment that is coming as a penance for civic sins. “For now, worse is better,” he wrote. “Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it. There will be 42 more months of this president’s increasingly hilarious-beyond-satire apotheosis of himself, leavened by his incessant whining about his tribulations (‘What dunce saddled me with this silly attorney general who takes my policy expostulations seriously?’). This protracted learning experience, which the public chose to have and which should not be truncated, might whet the public’s appetite for an adult president confident enough to wince at, and disdain, the adoration of his most comically groveling hirelings.”
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cognoscenti [kon-yuh-shen-tee, kog-nuh-] plural noun, singular cognoscente
1. persons who have superior knowledge and understanding of a particular field, especially in the fine arts, literature, and world of fashion.
inspired by our ongoing thread on lighten up stud, I thought I'd give this one a little life, even if it's a word many know.
example sentence:
As the cognoscenti pounded away on their keyboards, laying waste to the abomination of the heretical zero-setback seatpost, those among the rabble, clad with mail-order bibless shorts in colors of last year and discount store ankle socks (sans compression, alas!), murmured, "why are these guys so grumpy?"
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Complicitus
adjective
having or showing complicity; implicated
Timely methinks;-)
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Good one Larry.
Torrid
tor·rid
ˈtôrəd,ˈtärəd/
adjective
Wednesday evenings World no doubt will include torrid accounts of town line victories.
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ignoranus-
he's not just an idiot, he's an a**hole
my stepfather followed a competition that each year sought to come up with a new word by the changing of a single letter of one already in the dictionary- this one stayed in my memory
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Apologies if you've already seen this
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Larry Sampson
"Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades."
Eddy Merckx
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Originally Posted by
ides1056
ignoranus-
he's not just an idiot, he's an a**hole
my stepfather followed a competition that each year sought to come up with a new word by the changing of a single letter of one already in the dictionary- this one stayed in my memory
First yr. college a nearby roomate/english major. I used to create fake words used in context to twist his mind. It was before google so....
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Originally Posted by
ides1056
ignoranus-
he's not just an idiot, he's an a**hole
Hmmm...is this 'appurtenant' to Uranus...
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Originally Posted by
BBB
Hmmm...is this 'appurtenant' to Uranus...
Good one.
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"dendrite" - branched, arborescent extension of a neuron; so named for its tree-like structure. From the Greek δενδρίτης, meaning of or pertaining to a tree.
The dentrites clearly visible on Abdoujaparov's legs were a not so subtle indication of the source of his cycling prowess.
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"The U.S. government’s role in the steady destabilization of El Salvador is not only directly pertinent to the question of Abrams’ suitability for his role, it is the subtext to a familiar piece of agitprop. Trump loves to stoke fear about immigrants, including many Salvadorans, who cross the southern border. Not only are the vast majority peaceful, they’re fleeing a violent political climate that we helped create."
ag·it·prop
/ˈajətˌpräp/
noun: agitprop; noun: agit-prop
"political (originally communist) propaganda, especially in art or literature."
source: Criminal Shocked When Congresswoman Says His Crimes Out Loud
i don't know why i'm reading that publication's site, but i'm impressed by their big little word.
Originally Posted by
Sinclair
Give up cycling, keep riding the bike.
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Re: Wordish Wednesdays - Wednesday word of the day
Furbizia.
See the bad beer virus thread for details.
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Originally Posted by
BBB
Furbizia.
See the bad beer virus thread for details.
(Gong) Use it in a sentence chief. Kudos for the pick up.
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Not using furbizia in a sentence was itself an example of the concept...
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Originally Posted by
BBB
Not using furbizia in a sentence was itself an example of the concept...
Sly of you.
Jules, how the he!! did you get out of your neighborhood? We have been drinking for hours wondering where you were? "Furbiza" is all he said.
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concatenation...
As in a concetenation of unfortunate events led to gatherings of 100 or more being banned.
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Originally Posted by
BBB
concatenation...
As in a concetenation of unfortunate events led to gatherings of 100 or more being banned.
On a fair day you'd have made it "kakistocracy" I appreciate it's probably LMGTFY but WTF is that?
I feel more ignorantur than usuol...
Colin Mclelland
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