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Seems lately my digital thesaurus is getting a good workout, a benefit is we get to pick up new words for our vocabulary, perhaps we can add a word from threads we have to google such as today's entry: Puerile- pu·er·ile ˈpyo͝orəl,ˈpyo͝orˌīl/ adjective adjective: puerile childishly silly and trivial. "you're making puerile excuses" synonyms: childish, immature, infantile, juvenile, babyish; More antonyms: mature, sensible Origin: French late 16th century (in the sense ‘like a boy’): from French puéril or Latin puerilis, from puer ‘boy.’ | ||
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Excellent idea!!! We used to do this at work in my crew. We all made a decent effort of really using the word as often as it could possibly be used. Pissed off some management, some thought it was funny. Either way it, was good times and we mostly got a chuckle out of it. | |||
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Legs. Help spread the word. Best regards, Nick. NRA Life Member and Certified Instructor | |||
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Really, didn't take long, why offer up such a callow addition to the list  | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
It pays to increase your wordpower. Winston Churchill had a useable vocabulary estimated at over 60,000 words. The average person uses around 5,000 words. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Scrofulous - adjective scrof·u·lous \-ləs\ 1 : of, relating to, or affected with scrofula 2 a : having a diseased run-down appearance b : morally contaminated <scrofulous characters … so quick to smear — John Garrity> Medical Definition of scrofulous : of, relating to, or affected with scrofula <scrofulous ulcers> <tuberculosis of lymph nodes especially in the neck> ------------------------------------------------------ There are two types of people in this world: Those who need closure, | |||
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cal·low /ˈkalō/ adjective adjective: callow; comparative adjective: callower (especially of a young person) inexperienced and immature. "earnest and callow undergraduates" synonyms: immature, inexperienced, juvenile, adolescent, naive, green, raw, untried, unworldly, unsophisticated; informalwet behind the ears "she toyed with the emotions of Laughton when he was a callow and insecure young man" antonyms: mature | |||
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Defenstrate: To throw out of a window. | |||
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Careful EXX you could become a logophile  | |||
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Portmanteau: combining parts of two words to make another. Double entendre: a phrase that can have more than one meaning, e.g., Old bikers never die, but they're hard on tires.  E.g.: Exempli gratia, or for example. Stat: short for statim, or right the fuck now. Used mostly in the medical profession, at least on TV. I think Sig Forum taught me that one. | |||
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Propinquity (prə-pĭng′kwĭ-tē) Nearness or social kinship. "The association with Sigforum provides its members with a high degree of mutual propinquity." [Middle English propinquite, from Old French, from Latin propinquitās, meaning near.] Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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Due to my busy work schedule relocating my office I have been woolgathering, resulting in some poor choices when posting, thereby having to be patiently reminded to curtail my bouts of stupefaction. | |||
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Bonus points for using the word of the day in a post?
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Great Idea, the direction of this thread would be ameliorated. | |||
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Most misused word on net- loose instead of lose. Reached epidemic levels. Loose: Not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached. "a loose tooth" Lose: To suffer the deprivation of: to lose one's job; to lose one's life. _______________________________________ NRA Life Member Member Isaac Walton League I wouldn't let anyone do to me what I've done to myself | |||
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I'm not solving any puerile riddles unless there is a Sig at the end! | |||
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bovarism PRONUNCIATION: (BO-vuh-riz-em) MEANING: noun: A romanticized, unrealistic view of oneself. "Blessed is he who when facing his own demise, thinks only of his front sight.” Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem Montani Semper Liberi | |||
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And before it was the word of the day! "Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up." -Kyle Farnsworth "Freedom of Speech does not guarantee freedom from consequences." -Mike Rowe "Democracies aren't overthrown, they're given away." -George Lucas | |||
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Bonus points denied because the article that M-11 was responding to used puerile in a quote. | |||
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Actual bonus points for the people who start out understanding "day", along with the singular form of "word." You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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