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| Topic Started: Wed 15 Oct 2008 15:16:04 (3,443 Views) | |
| Pete | Wed 15 Oct 2008 15:16:04 Post #1 |
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waylay \WAY-lay\, transitive verb: 1. To lie in wait for and attack from ambush. 2. To approach or stop (someone) unexpectedly. When his mother praised certain well-behaved and neatly dressed boys in the village, Jung was filled with hate for them, and would waylay and beat them up. -- Frank McLynn, Carl Gustav Jung He returned to her night after night, until his brother, Frank, waylaid him one evening outside Harriet's cabin and beat him bloody. -- Lynne Olson, Freedom's Daughters Furious and humiliated, the boy waylaid Martha after school. -- Julian Barnes, England, England The women, who hold wicker baskets filled with flowers and incense, are out to waylay tourists and to entice them into buying the blooms and scents. -- Jacob Heilbrunn, "Mao More Than Ever", New Republic, April 21, 1997 Waylay comes from way (from Old English weg) + lay (from Old English lecgan). |
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| Pete | Thu 16 Oct 2008 15:36:11 Post #2 |
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misprize \mis-PRYZ\, transitive verb: 1. To hold in contempt. 2. To undervalue. I hesitate to appear to misprize my native city, but how can the history of dear, sedate old London town possibly compare to Paris for sheer excitement? -- Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris Or did he misprize such fidelity and harden his heart against so great a love as hers? -- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, translated by Guido Waldman Alternatively, when disagreements are noticed, they may by chance be overemphasized by those who misprize their significance by failing to assess the pressure exerted by economic and institutional factors as opposed to the purely intellectual. -- Ellen Handler Spitz, "Warrant for trespass/ permission to peer", The Art Bulletin, December 1, 1995 Misprize comes from Middle French mesprisier, from mes-, "amiss, wrong" + prisier, "to appraise." |
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| Pete | Fri 17 Oct 2008 13:51:44 Post #3 |
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expeditious \ek-spuh-DISH-uhs\, adjective: Characterized by or acting with speed and efficiency. His problem was to get from Lookout Valley to Chattanooga Valley in the most expeditious way possible. -- Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs The criminal may of course use some short-term act of violence to 'terrorize' his victim, such as waving a gun in the face of a bank clerk during a robbery in order to ensure the clerk's expeditious compliance. -- Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism Expeditious is derived from Latin expeditus, "unshackled, unimpeded, ready for action," from expedire, "to free (one's feet) from a snare; hence, to get out, to set free, to get ready for action," from ex-, "out of" + pes, ped-, "foot." |
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| Pete | Fri 17 Oct 2008 13:52:13 Post #4 |
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So setting up THIS forum was expeditious then :jester: |
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| sheila | Fri 17 Oct 2008 20:51:37 Post #5 |
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ha ha great words pete.......so sorry to say it but i dont like this theme at all its too dark xx |
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| Pete | Fri 17 Oct 2008 20:54:35 Post #6 |
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No Problem |
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| sheila | Fri 17 Oct 2008 20:58:36 Post #7 |
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well we all cant like the same things can we. ha ha xxx i like bright and cheerful. |
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| Pete | Fri 17 Oct 2008 21:00:58 Post #8 |
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Try this then :jester: |
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| sheila | Fri 17 Oct 2008 21:03:45 Post #9 |
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beautiful........its my second favorite colour. green is my first. xx thanks pete |
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| Pete | Fri 17 Oct 2008 21:05:41 Post #10 |
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No Problem :hug: |
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| sheila | Fri 17 Oct 2008 21:08:38 Post #11 |
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thanks xx |
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| marieanne | Sat 18 Oct 2008 06:43:27 Post #12 |
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yes...very nice...I like the orange one. |
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| sheila | Sun 19 Oct 2008 15:01:15 Post #13 |
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the colours we like are supposed to reflect ourselves. i like green and i love frogs...dont ask me why ha ha i also like orange and i like tigers xx what colours do you both like and do they go with animals you like .? xx |
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| Pete | Sat 25 Oct 2008 22:27:17 Post #14 |
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I love purple and dark blue so if you see a regal rabbit that's my animal - I love darker skins, some of the lighter ones I find too bright. As far as animals are concerned I love watching all wildlife including birds and love nature programs |
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| Pete | Mon 27 Oct 2008 18:12:30 Post #15 |
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corroborate \kuh-ROB-uh-rayt\, transitive verb: To strengthen or make more certain with other evidence. Whenever I can, I interview family and friends extensively both to corroborate the history given me by the defendant and to gain insight into his behavior and personality. -- Barbara R. Kirwin, Ph.D., The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent: The Criminal Mind on Trial He said that when the jurors confronted discrepancies in any of the prosecution witnesses' descriptions, they used the testimony of other prosecution witnesses to corroborate the chronology. -- "Most Jurors Thought Schwarz Aided Attack, Foreman Says", New York Times, August 2, 2002 As we have no public notoriety, no concurrent testimony, no records to support and corroborate what we deliver, it becomes us to keep within the limits not only of possibility, but of probability too. -- Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones Corroborate is from Latin corroboratus, past participle of the verb corroborare, "to strengthen," from com-, "with" + roborare, "to strengthen," and is related to robust. |
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| Pete | Mon 27 Oct 2008 20:08:16 Post #16 |
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Got Sundays and Monday email today so two for the price of one :jester: genuflect \JEN-yuh-flekt\, intransitive verb: 1. To bend the knee or touch one knee to the ground, as in worship. 2. To be servilely respectful or obedient; to grovel. After graduation I talked my way into a job at Ionic Development Corporation, a legendary place in Cambridge on the Charles River, a huge brick building with a lobby the size of a cathedral; every time I walked in, I felt as if I should genuflect. -- Daniel Lyons, Dog Days People worship capital, adore its aura, genuflect before Porsches and Tokyo land values. -- Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (translated by Alfred Birnbaum) Chen said recently he was proud to be a Chinese, a signal to Beijing that he is willing to be conciliatory. The communists, however, apparently want him to genuflect more unambiguously. -- Sin-Ming Shaw, "Give This Guy a Break!", Time Asia, October 30, 2000 Genuflect is from Late Latin genuflectere, from Latin genu, "knee" + flectere, "to bend." |
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| marieanne | Tue 28 Oct 2008 03:49:54 Post #17 |
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We genuflect before OUR MESSIAH in Adoration. |
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| Pete | Tue 28 Oct 2008 13:55:43 Post #18 |
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execrable \EK-sih-kruh-buhl\, adjective: 1. Deserving to be execrated; detestable; abominable. 2. Extremely bad; of very poor quality; very inferior. His human-rights record was abysmal. His relations with Washington were adversarial. He rivaled Zimbabwe's execrable Robert Mugabe for the title "Africa's Saddam." -- James S. Robbins, "The Liberian Opportunity", National Review, July 8, 2003 For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published. -- Laura Miller, "Slush, slush, sweet Stephen", Salon, July 25, 2000 Any theatergoer who has ever felt the urge to murder an actor for an execrable performance should get a kick out of two backstage mysteries that do the deed with a nice theatrical flourish. -- Marilyn Stasio, review of The Gold Gamble, by Herbert Resnicow and Death Mask, by Jane Dentinger, New York Times, October 30, 1988 The decision to level the ancient cathedral is described candidly by one latter-day authoritative guidebook as having demonstrated "execrable taste." -- Dick Grogan, "Pillars speak out to save cathedral", Irish Times, June 11, 1997 Execrable derives from Latin exsecrabilis, execrabilis, from exsecrari, execrari, "to execrate, to curse," from ex-, "out of, away from, outside of" + sacer, "sacred." |
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| Pete | Wed 29 Oct 2008 17:41:40 Post #19 |
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bivouac \BIV-wak, BIV-uh-wak\, noun: 1. An encampment for the night, usually under little or no shelter. 2. To encamp for the night, usually under little or no shelter. Rob had made his emergency bivouac just below the South Summit. -- David Breashears, "Death on the mountain", The Observer, March 30, 2003 They were stopped by savage winds and forced to bivouac 153 m below the day's goal. -- Erik Weihenmayer, "Men of the Mountain", Time Pacific, February 4, 2002 Bivouac comes from French bivouac, from German Beiwache, "a watching or guarding," from bei, "by, near" + wachen, "to watch." |
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| sheila | Wed 29 Oct 2008 21:28:22 Post #20 |
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good words xx |
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