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Post by drystyx on Apr 8, 2018 16:06:56 GMT
I think improving one's vocabulary is important, so I like to use alacrity in improving mine. I do so by picking up the dictionary each day, with alacrity, and using the same alacrity in finding a new word, then learning the definition and use of that word, with alacrity, and using that word as often and with as much alacrity each day as I can. In such a way, one can improve one's vocabulary with great alacrity.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's word, which will be used with alacrity tomorrow.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 8, 2018 16:11:16 GMT
...peroration trumps alacrity...
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Post by deembastille on Apr 8, 2018 16:57:14 GMT
I think improving one's vocabulary is important, so I like to use alacrity in improving mine. I do so by picking up the dictionary each day, with alacrity, and using the same alacrity in finding a new word, then learning the definition and use of that word, with alacrity, and using that word as often and with as much alacrity each day as I can. In such a way, one can improve one's vocabulary with great alacrity. Stay tuned for tomorrow's word, which will be used with alacrity tomorrow. i agree. i especially think it is quietly amusing when i use a word i have learned from reading actual literature [no My Darling My Hamburger] and i have to translate it to a colleague. a colleague who is supposed to be a learned person. and the word wasn't even that hard. 'i had to doctor up the lesson plan so that it could fit my program.' 'you're a doctor???' my utmost favorite: 'whose driving this bus?' 'there's a bus?' |
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Post by drystyx on Apr 8, 2018 17:42:54 GMT
...peroration trumps alacrity... "Trump"? Is there a sublime message there? Wait, it's not "Trump", it's "Trumps", meaning you want a world full of Trumps, Like that Star Trek episode with what was it, tribbles? |
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Post by deembastille on Apr 8, 2018 18:12:30 GMT
...peroration trumps alacrity... "Trump"? Is there a sublime message there? Wait, it's not "Trump", it's "Trumps", meaning you want a world full of Trumps, Like that Star Trek episode with what was it, tribbles? and here we are... trump is also a word meaning tops. ace trumps kings. |
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 8, 2018 23:39:50 GMT
...haven't you ever played pinochle???
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Post by drystyx on Apr 9, 2018 1:12:26 GMT
...haven't you ever played pinochle??? No, but I've played Spades, where Spades are trumps, so Trumps are spades, and Bridge, where 1/5 of the time, Trump is a spade. A fifth of the time trumps have hearts, a fifth of the time they have clubs, a fifth of the time diamonds, and the rest of the time there are no trumps. Which means that if a Trump doesn't carry a club, nor have a diamond, nor a heart, nor a spade, then he or she doesn't get to exist. |
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Post by Arlon10 on Apr 9, 2018 1:45:33 GMT
It's a propitious thing you aren't dilatory in circumambulating the vicissitudes of lexicography because no one has a proclivity for that.
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Post by drystyx on Apr 9, 2018 1:57:30 GMT
It's a propitious thing you aren't dilatory in circumambulating the vicissitudes of lexicography because no one has a proclivity for that. Well, that proper thing isn't dilating in the circus ambulance vaccination of Lexington, even if one is pro life. |
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Apr 9, 2018 1:58:54 GMT
I get an email from several dictionaries' words of the day. I keep a list of my favorite words. Here's a few:
anatiferous (adj) Producing geese; that is, producing the cirripeds formerly called tree-geese or goose-mussels, which adhere to submerged wood or stone, but were formerly supposed to grow on trees, and then to drop off into the water and turn into geese.
crapulence (noun) Drunkenness; a surfeit, or the sickness following drunkenness. (noun) Intemperance; debauchery; excessive indulgence.
deliquium (noun) In chemistry, a melting or liquefaction by absorption of moisture, as of a salt. (noun) Figuratively, a melting or maudlin mood of mind. (noun) An interruption or failure of the sun's light, whether caused by an eclipse or otherwise.
eidolon \ahy-DOH-luhn\, noun: 1. A phantom; apparition. 2. An ideal.
juggins A dull fellow; a chump. A fool; someone very credulous or easily fooled.
Lucubratory (adj) Composed by candle-light; pertaining to nocturnal study or serious thought.
mumpsimus noun: 1. Adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc., out of habit or obstinacy. 2. A person who persists in a mistaken expression or practice.
pillaloo (noun) Expressing distress, sorrow, or grief: ‘oh!’, ‘alas!’, ‘woe!’, etc.
sciamachy (noun) A fighting with a shadow; a futile combat with an imaginary enemy; shadow-boxing.
titubate To stumble; trip; stagger; reel; rock or roll.
verbicide (noun) The killing of a word, in a figurative sense; perversion of a word from its proper meaning, as in punning.
zenzizenzizenzic (noun) The eighth power of a number.
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Post by Arlon10 on Apr 9, 2018 3:49:53 GMT
It's a propitious thing you aren't dilatory in circumambulating the vicissitudes of lexicography because no one has a proclivity for that. Well, that proper thing isn't dilating in the circus ambulance vaccination of Lexington, even if one is pro life. It might help to learn them in pairs winsome petulant conflate bifurcate |
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Post by maya55555 on Apr 9, 2018 4:01:05 GMT
drystyx
OK
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Post by Arlon10 on Apr 9, 2018 5:53:44 GMT
Match the twenty personality traits with the twenty animals. Some might not have a perfect match, some might have several matches. Find the one closest match for each.
Traits
spontaneous, stolid, majestic, stalwart, gregarious
aloof, slipshod, diffident, industrious, jejune
mellifluous, surreptitious, sprightly, cursive, finical
vigilant, stentorian, rapacious, mirthful, constrained
Animals
lion, deer, rooster, lark, horse
cow, chicken, pig, owl, dog
cat, alligator, fish, rabbit, dolphin
squirrel, eagle, frog, beaver, prairie dog
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Post by Arlon10 on Apr 9, 2018 22:54:28 GMT
Match the twenty personality traits with the twenty animals. Some might not have a perfect match, some might have several matches. Find the one closest match for each. Traits spontaneous, stolid, majestic, stalwart, gregarious aloof, slipshod, diffident, industrious, jejune mellifluous, surreptitious, sprightly, cursive, finical vigilant, stentorian, rapacious, mirthful, constrained Animals lion, deer, rooster, lark, horse cow, chicken, pig, owl, dog cat, alligator, fish, rabbit, dolphin squirrel, eagle, frog, beaver, prairie dog It's not as difficult as it might first appear. |
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Post by drystyx on Apr 10, 2018 0:14:34 GMT
For this second day of improving my vocabulary, my dictionary got wet except on the first few pages, which drew the ants close, and I had no aardvark to take care of those pests, but I swatted those ants with the alacrity of an aardvark consuming insects. Now, I'm as happy as an aardvark in an anthill.
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Post by rizdek on Apr 11, 2018 7:27:54 GMT
"Trump"? Is there a sublime message there? Wait, it's not "Trump", it's "Trumps", meaning you want a world full of Trumps, Like that Star Trek episode with what was it, tribbles? and here we are... trump is also a word meaning tops. ace trumps kings. There's a joke in there somewhere having to do with Trump signing an EO right now to change card decks. It'll be Ace Trump King Queen Jack or something like that. I'm sure someone cleverer than me will think of it. |
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