recuse \rih-KYOOZ\ (verb) : to disqualify (oneself) as a judge in a particular case; :broadly, to remove (oneself) from participation to avoid a conflict of interest Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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rodomontade \rah-duh-mun-TAYD or rah-duh-mun-TAHD\ (noun) 1 : a bragging speech 2 : vain boasting or bluster : rant Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The Word of the Day for July 13 is: hastilude \HASS-tuh-lood (oo as in "food")\ (noun) : a medieval joust : spear play Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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imprimatur \im-pruh-MAH-toor or im-PRIH-muh-toor\ (noun) 1 : a license to print or publish 2 : official approval or sanction Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Who gave Dobie the imprimatur to start this orchidaceous and unlaudable rodomontade, which is obviously an attempt to instigate a hastilude (from which I am glad he has recused himself) over his auriferous vocabulary through a plenitude of shaggy-dog stories that are full of succinct Aesopian Walter Mitty stories, showing that despite their many demarches, the people of Hatrack are in a parlous dudgeon over the weltschmerz caused by the fact that all things pelagic are never truly crulean.
euphuism \YOO-fyuh-wih-zum\ (noun) 1 : an elegant Elizabethan literary style marked by excessive use of balance, antithesis, and alliteration and by frequent use of similes drawn from mythology and nature 2 : artificial elegance of language Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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hierophant \HYE-ruh-fant or hye-EH-ruh-funt\ (noun) 1 : a priest in ancient Greece; specifically : the chief priest of the Eleusinian mysteries 2 a : a person who explains : commentator b : advocate Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The Word of the Day for July 20 is: qualm \KWAHM or KWAHLM\ (noun) 1 : a sudden attack of illness, faintness, or nausea 2 : a sudden access of usually disturbing emotion (as doubt or fear) 3 : a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The Word of the Day for July 21 is: conurbation \kah-ner-BAY-shun\ (noun) : an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The Word of the Day for July 22 is: burgle \BUR-gul\ (verb) transitive senses 1 : to break into and steal from 2 : to commit burglary against intransitive sense : to commit burglary Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The Word of the Day for July 24 is: etiolate \EE-tee-uh-layt\ (verb) 1 : to bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight 2 a : to make pale 2 b : to deprive of natural vigor : make feeble Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The Word of the Day for July 25 is: gauche \GOHSH\ (adjective) 1 : lacking social experience or grace; also : not tactful 2 : crudely made or done Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Artificial etiolation of human skin, as in the case of Michael Jacksom, can only be considered gauche. Do not try to change my mind; on this matter I am implacable.
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The Word of the Day for July 26 is: invidious \in-VIH-dee-uss\ (adjective) 1 : tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy 2 : envious 3 a : of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious 3 b : of a kind to cause harm or resentment Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The Word of the Day for July 27 is: aerie \AIR-ee or EER-ee\ (noun) 1 : the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop 2 : an elevated often secluded dwelling, structure, or position Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Mr. Carnegie, author of "How to win friends and Influence People," sat at his desk in the palatial office atop the Chrysler Building. His detractors called it the Aerie Dale. :0 Posts: 22497 | Registered: Sep 2000
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After looking at the pronunciation, I'd like to change my entry to:
The only swamp denizen to brood its young on raised platforms is known, of course, as the aerie gator. It spends much of the time during incubation carrying water to the nest.
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The Word of the Day for July 28 is: obverse \AHB-verss or ahb-VERSS\ (noun) 1 : the side of a coin or currency note bearing the chief device and lettering; broadly : a front or principal surface 2 : a counterpart having the opposite orientation or force; also : opposite Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The Word of the Day for July 29 is: chapel \CHAP-ul\ (noun) 1 : a building or a place for prayer or special religious services 2 : a religious service or assembly at a school or college Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The Word of the Day for July 30 is: synchronicity \sing-kruh-NIH-suh-tee or sin-kruh-NIH-suh-tee\ (noun) 1 : the quality or fact of being simultaneous 2 : the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Many people go to chapel on Sunday, but Jews go on Sat. and call it synagogue or temple. (Okay, unoriginal, but no one else posted. ) There is no synchronicity in going to chapel, since people of different faiths (and even people of the same faith) go at different times.
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The Word of the Day for July 31 is: proliferate \pruh-LIH-fuh-rayt\ (verb) : to grow or increase in number rapidly Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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mulct \MULKT\ (verb) 1 : to punish by a fine 2 a : to defraud especially of money : swindle 2 b : to obtain by fraud, duress, or theft Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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The city of Sheridan (I think so), Colorado has lowered the speed limit to 35 mph on a four-lane highway and placed policemen on a constant vigil for speeders, thereby mulcting those who break the speeding law. The funds gained are used to support the financially-suffering city.
Is it right? Don't know. Legally-supported theivery. Hmmm...
point man \POYNT-MAN\ (noun) : a soldier who goes ahead of a patrol; broadly : one who is in the forefront (as on a political issue) Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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improvident \im-PRAH-vuh-dunt or im-PRAH-vuh-dent\ (adjective) : not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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ubiquitous \yoo-BIH-kwuh-tuss\ (adjective) : existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread Posts: 1127 | Registered: Aug 2000
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