Word Of The Day!

**Hunny** Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:34 am

Vocabulary Word of The Day!

Come here to see or to post a good vocabulary word for us to know.

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**Hunny** Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:43 am

Frangible

A material is said to be frangible if through deformation it tends to break up into fragments, rather than deforming plastically and retaining its cohesion as a single object. Crackers are examples of frangible materials, while fresh bread, which deforms elastically, is not frangible.

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**Hunny** Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:39 am

numinous

adjective: Supernatural, mysterious, or awe-inspiring.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin numen (nod of the head, command, divine will). Earliest documented use: 1647.

USAGE:
"Rol and Noey's lives unfold in an atmosphere of mildly magical realism: a numinous shimmer at the edges of the everyday."
Geordie Williamson; Unsettled by Pain; The Australian (Sydney); Dec 3, 2011.

**Hunny** Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:40 am

foible

A strange habit unique to you.
A minor eccentricity in someone's character.
An idiosyncrasy.

EXAMPLE: Hunny has many foibles, including that she never takes the product from the front of the shelf, when shopping, calling that one "the display model".

**Hunny** Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:59 am

iniquitous

\ih-NIK-wi-tuhs\ , adjective:
Characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful.

The commission was charged now with the task of discovering the iniquitous conspiracy against the Citizen-Saviour of his country.
-- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

Anything else would be iniquitous - iniquitous is the only word. You know as well as I do that there is not the remotest chance of her ever being able to earn any money for herself out here.
-- Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

Iniquitous literally meant "unfair" in Latin, as its clear roots betray.

EllenMcFelon Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:48 am

nutate

PRONUNCIATION:
(NOO-tayt, NYOO-)

MEANING:
verb:
1. To nod the head.
2. To oscillate while rotating (as an astronomical body).
3. To move in a curving or circular fashion (as a plant stem, leaf, etc.).

**Hunny** Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:21 am

KIBITZ (Yiddish verb)

kib·itzed, kib·itz·ing, kib·itz·es
1. To look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others.
2. To chat; converse.

Kibitzing denotes a tinge of ...you might have started out just friendly chatting, but you hung there too long, you didn't go away at a good point. You kibitzed. You were kibitzing, when you went over and hung around where Dave was fixing his motor and you just stayed and talked at him all day. Word Of The Day! 3077217049

**ladylinda** Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:35 pm

Bax, baxtalo, bok

Romani for 'luck' - baxtalo means 'lucky'

Kushti bok! - means 'good luck!'

Luck is very important in Romani gypsy culture! Very Happy

EllenMcFelon Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:19 pm

conniption
\ kuh-NIP-shuhn \ , noun;
1.A fit of hysterical excitement or anger.

Quotes:
"Wah!" says Stella-Rondo. I knew she'd cry. She had a conniption fit right there in the kitchen.
-- Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P.O." The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

When they came home, everybody was having a conniption about a big giant fight in the village over who got whose share of their horrid meat.
-- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

EllenMcFelon Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:55 pm

supplicate
\SUP-luh-kayt\ verb:
1. To seek or ask for humbly and earnestly.
2. To make a humble petition to; to beseech.

Lehi's list of enemies was long and broad, including not only the British and the Arabs, but respected Jewish leaders like David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, whom they dismissed as weaklings and compromisers prepared to supplicate before the aristocratic count.
-- Tod Hoffman, "Count (Folke) Bernadotte's folly", Queen's Quarterly, December 22, 1996

Their ambassadors would plead, supplicate, cajole, threaten, lobby, or bribe the bureaucrats who were administering the licenses and quotas.
-- Zafar U. Ahmed, "India's economic reforms", Competitiveness Review, January 1, 1999

In this formula, practitioners of religion are more or less powerless over the supernatural beings with whom they deal; they can only supplicate those beings for favours and then await their response.
-- Ronald Hutton, "Paganism and Polemic", Folklore, April 2000

Supplicate derives from the past participle of Latin supplicare, from supplex, "entreating for mercy." The noun form is supplication.

EllenMcFelon Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:46 pm

Cheeky

offensively bold; lacking restraint or modesty; disrespectful in speech or behaviour; brash, brazen, nervy, impudent (Not showing due respect for another person; impertinent. ; marked by contemptuous or cocky boldness or disregard of others : insolent.

shameless or brazenly immodest.

mischievous, impertinent, or disrespectful

—Synonyms
1. insulting, rude; saucy, pert; presumptuous, fresh, brazen. See impertinent.

—Antonyms
1. courteous. lol

**Hunny** Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:46 am

adroit
\ uh-DROIT \ , adjective;
1.
Cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious.
2.
Expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.

**Hunny** Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:33 am

plotz
YIDDISH verb.
1) To become emotional, with excitement, grief or anger.
To collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion

An example of to plotz is to become totally enraged at the sight of abuse.

"When i heard she had slept with my roommate, i was about to plotz!"
"Wait until you get a load of the banquet room. You're gonna plotz!"

2) To "fall down dead right now"
Usage: "oy, after all that shopping I'm about to plotz" Or "Ham and cheese sandwiches? If your grandfather weren't already dead, he'd plotz."

3) Plotzing means to burst or explode. In some instances it can refer to a sudden bowel movement.
"I can't laugh anymore or I'll "plotz."

4)It can mean to be unintelligibly intoxicated ("He was plottzed!")

**Hunny** Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:32 am

o·di·ous
/ˈōdēəs/
Adjective:
Extremely unpleasant. Repulsive.
Instilling hatred or intense displeasure.
Disagreeable and causing dislike in others

Synonyms: obnoxious - detestable - loathsome - abominable - offensive

Mark was assigned the odious task of cleaning the cat’s litter box.

Two of them—his mother Livia and his odious sister Janice—were at heart killers like himself.

**Hunny** Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:31 am

ennui

a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom

Examples of ENNUI

1. the kind of ennui that comes from having too much time on one's hands and too little will to find something productive to do
2. When the antiproton was discovered … it sent a wave of ennui through the physics community. Not that its discovery was unimportant, but on the basis of Dirac's theory, everybody expected it. —Roger G. Newton, The Truth of Science, 1997

Synonyms: blahs, doldrums, boredom, listlessness, restlessness, tedium, weariness

**Hunny** Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:30 am

petulant

1 - insolent or rude in speech or behavior
2 - characterized by temporary or capricious ill humor : peevish
3 - Childishly sulky or bad-tempered.

Synonyms:testy - pettish - peevish - irritable - cantankerous