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Subject: Word of the day at Dictionary.com
Posted by: TB
- [448553012] Wed, Oct 11, 2006, 20:45
Word Of The Day
I was reading my gmail and every now and then I notice a word of the day, brain puzzle, news story, or whatever happens to be showing. It had this up there just now: braggadocio= empty boasting.
I've heard of bravado, but clicked on it even though I mean to be checking a deep sleeper for a football keeper league, and it took me to this link with the bigger definition:
braggadocio \brag-uh-DOH-see-oh; -shee-oh; -shoh\, noun:
1. A braggart.
2. Empty boasting.
3. A swaggering, cocky manner.
I think it is about time we had our word of the day thread where someone goes to the link and posts the word of the day. Then, for anyone who wants to play along and if it's a cool word, we use the word during the day at work, among friends, or even in a post here at rotoguru. If a funny story comes up because of the cool word of the day, share. If nothing else, we might learn a new word or two.
Today's word is at this link: Word Of The Day
hypnagogic \hip-nuh-GOJ-ik; -GOH-jik\, adjective:
Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the state of drowsiness preceding sleep |
| 1 | TB
ID: 448553012
Thu, Oct 12, 2006, 07:58
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concinnity \kuhn-SIN-uh-tee\, noun:
1. Internal harmony or fitness in the adaptation of parts to a whole or to each other.
2. Studied elegance of design or arrangement -- used chiefly of literary style.
3. An instance of concinnity.
He has what one character calls "the gifts of concinnity and concision," that deft swipe with a phrase that can be so devastating in children.
-- Elizabeth Ward
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| 2 | JeffG
ID: 146591911
Fri, Oct 13, 2006, 15:33
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An apt W-O-D for 10/13/2006 for this thread. The info came from outside this forum and not essentional or pertinent to the matter at hand.
extraneous \ek-STRAY-nee-uhs\, adjective:
1. Coming from or existing on the outside.
2. Introduced from an outside source.
3. Not essential or intrinsic; foreign.
4. Not pertinent to the matter at hand; irrelevant.
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| 3 | Seattle Zen
ID: 46315247
Sat, Oct 14x, 2006, 23:37
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We are all interlocutors here, except for the lurkers.
in‧ter‧loc‧u‧tor [in-ter-lok-yuh-ter]
1. a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
2. the man in the middle of the line of performers in a minstrel troupe, who acts as the announcer and banters with the end men.
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| 4 | TB
ID: 448553012
Sun, Oct 15, 2006, 20:58
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facile \FAS-uhl\, adjective:
1. Easily done or performed; not difficult.
2. Arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; as, "too facile a solution for so complex a problem."
3. Ready; quick; expert; as, "he is facile in expedients"; "he wields a facile pen."
Today, the nuclear projects in Iran, Iraq, and North Korea forbid the facile conclusion that the atomic weapons age is conclusively ended.
-- Abba Eban, Diplomacy for the Next Century
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| 5 | blue hen
Leader
ID: 710321114
Mon, Oct 16, 2006, 13:09
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You guys are all great raconteurs.
raconteur \rack-on-TUR\, noun:
One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes.
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| 6 | TB
ID: 448553012
Wed, Oct 18, 2006, 00:46
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exemplar \ig-ZEM-plar; -pluhr\, noun:
1. A model or pattern to be copied or imitated.
2. A typical or standard specimen.
3. An ideal model or type.
4. A copy of a book or text.
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| 7 | Seattle Zen
ID: 46315247
Mon, Oct 23, 2006, 23:21
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To burke
To execute (someone) by suffocation so as to leave the body intact and suitable for dissection.
I just learned this word and of its infamous origin, Willian Burke, the man behind the West Port murders. Burke and his buddy William Hare murdered 17 people and sold their corpses to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. The college would only buy bodies that were unmolested, so Burke would liquor the person up, sit on his/her chest, and sufficate them, leaving little or no trace.
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| 8 | TB
Sherpa
ID: 031811922
Sat, Dec 02, 2006, 01:26
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I was inspired to post these "words of wisdom" tonight. Wasn't really sure where to post them, but seeing how this thread didn't really last, I figured why not here.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. - Henri Frederic Amiel
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| 9 | RecycledSpinalFluid
Dude
ID: 204401122
Sat, Dec 02, 2006, 03:43
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You can always Vote for the 2006 Word of the Year
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| 10 | Seattle Zen
ID: 49112418
Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 16:32
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Time to revive this thread and our vocabularies.
jejune
1. without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
2. juvenile; immature; childish: jejune behavior.
3. lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed: jejune attempts to design a house.
4. deficient or lacking in nutritive value: a jejune diet.
Personally, I found The Departed jejune.
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| 11 | Seattle Zen
ID: 49112418
Fri, Oct 12, 2007, 15:21
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This is a fun thread that deserves a butt...
Seiche
an occasional and sudden oscillation of the water of a lake, bay, estuary, etc., producing fluctuations in the water level and caused by wind, earthquakes, changes in barometric pressure, etc.
a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances.
I heard this word for the first time today in a story about the seismic study of the Seattle area. They mentioned the possibility of a mini tsunami on Lake Washington caused by an earthquake on a fault that lies below the lake that is called a seiche.
The size of the rupture on the lake bottom indicates that such a Lake Washington tsunami could be anywhere from 9 to 18 feet high.
There are two floating bridges across Lake Washington and one is going to be replaced soon. They are designed to withstand an 11 foot wave. The thought of an 18 foot seiche hitting a floating bridge is terrifying.
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| 12 | Seattle Zen
ID: 529121611
Sun, Oct 28, 2007, 16:23
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Wow, this thread is as popular as liver.
valetudinarian:
A weak or sickly person, especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health.
This year's valedictorian is a valetudinarian, she is going to study medicine in order to alleviate her own suffering :)
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| 13 | RecycledSpinalFluid
Dude
ID: 204401122
Tue, Nov 27, 2007, 19:38
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Kvetch all you want, but people just won't post these.
(Word of the Day shows in my GMail, so I love these.)
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| 14 | Mike D
Leader
ID: 041831612
Tue, Nov 27, 2007, 19:54
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We used to have a Word of the Day at my office years ago. Except we called it "Mot Du Jour" to add some French spice to it. I actually learned some good stuff.
And I always thought that if I burked somebody it was a good thing......
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| 15 | RecycledSpinalFluid
Dude
ID: 204401122
Mon, Feb 04, 2008, 19:27
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magniloquent
adjective:
Lofty or grandiose in speech or expression; using a high-flown style of discourse; bombastic.
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| 16 | Mike D
Leader
ID: 041831612
Mon, Feb 04, 2008, 21:50
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I like bombastic a lot. Magniloquent?? Not as much.
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| 18 | holt
ID: 360131020
Tue, Feb 05, 2008, 12:05
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this looks like a good place to share an interesting psychology term I stumbled across:
jamais vu
Any familiar situation which is not recognized by the observer.
Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer's impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.
Jamais vu is more commonly explained as when a person momentarily doesn't recognize a word, person, or place that he/she already knows.
The phenomenon is often grouped with déjà vu and presque vu (together, the three are frequently referred to as "The Vus").
Chris Moulin, of Leeds University, asked 92 volunteers to write out "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. At the International Conference on Memory in Sydney last week he reported that 68 per cent of his guinea pigs showed symptoms of jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word. Dr Moulin believes that a similar brain fatigue underlies a phenomenon observed in some schizophrenia patients: that a familiar person has been replaced by an impostor. Dr Moulin suggests they could be suffering from chronic jamais vu.
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| 19 | RecycledSpinalFluid
Dude
ID: 204401122
Fri, Oct 24, 2008, 11:18
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limn
transitive verb:
1. To depict by drawing or painting.
2. To portray in words; to describe.
Limn is from Middle English limnen, alteration of luminen, from enluminen, from Medieval French enluminer, from Late Latin illuminare, "to illuminate," ultimately from Latin lumen, "light."
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| 20 | Seattle Zen
ID: 44501617
Tue, Jun 16, 2009, 18:28
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Big, Fancy words in the NYTimes
This is an interesting story about the vocabulary used in the Times. It alerted me to a feature I did not know existed: If you double click on a word, a question mark appears and clicking on that will define the word for you. The story has a link to the most queried words
Word of the Day:
peripatetic
adj.
1. Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot.
2. Peripatetic Of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking about in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
n.
1. One who walks from place to place; an itinerant.
2. Peripatetic A follower of the philosophy of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.
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