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Showing posts with label WotM. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

WotM

Profligate:

  • extravagant: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
  • rake: a dissolute man in fashionable society
  • debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
  • prodigal: a recklessly extravagant consumer
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Yes, I know what you're saying....

"Not another effin WotM post... damn, get some content ffs!"

Sorry.

Vapid:

  • bland: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
  • lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
  • wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

WotM x 2

Apoplectic:

  • pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy; "apoplectic seizure"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Apoplexy:
  • stroke: a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

WotM

Disonance:

  • disagreement: a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
  • noise: the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"
  • disagreeable sounds
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Friday, September 05, 2008

WotM

Misanthrope:

  • someone who dislikes people in general

Maybe I should start saving some of these for days I don't have a word.

Nah. We all know I'd never come back and look it up.

Stuff it... I'll post 'em when I get 'em.

WotM

Eviscerate:

  • resect: surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
  • remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"
  • disembowel: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken"
  • take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"
  • having been disembowelled
I heard this word (actually eviscerated) in Keith Olberman's reaction to the 9-11 themed video that was shown at the RNC.

Word of the moment (WotM)

Elucidate:

  • clarify: make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"
  • clear: make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"