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Old 10-01-2003, 01:39 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Word of the day October 1

The Word of the Day for October 1 is:

condone • \kun-DOHN\ • (verb) to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless

A little more information about today’s word:
Since some folks don't condone even minor usage slips, you might want to get the meaning of this word straight. Although English speakers sometimes use "condone" with the intended meaning "approve of" or "encourage," the more established meaning is closer to "pardon" or "overlook." "Condone" comes from the Latin verb "condonare," which means "to give" or "to forgive." "Condonare" in turn combines the Latin prefix "con-," indicating thoroughness, and "donare," meaning "to give" or "to grant." Not surprisingly, "donare" is also the source of our words "donate" and "pardon."

My sentence:
"If you are disrespectful of other students in my classroom," Ms. Pace warned on the first day of school, "I won't condone it."

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Old 10-01-2003, 05:01 AM   #2 (permalink)
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If you condone a pint of whiskey in ten seconds, then you passed that phase of the initiation into the fraternity.
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Old 10-01-2003, 05:48 AM   #3 (permalink)
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The cooperate rules said that nobody could eat or drink on the job but the manager condoned some food at peoples desks.
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Old 10-02-2003, 01:08 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Word of the day October 2

The Word of the Day for October 2 is:

convoluted • \KAHN-vuh-loo-tud\ • (adjective) 1. having convolutions; 2. involved, intricate

A little more information about today’s word:
Convolutions, in the concrete sense, are folded, winding shapes. (The irregular ridges on our brain are convolutions.) "Convoluted" and "convolution" are from Latin "volvere," meaning "to roll." "Volvere" has given English many words, but one of the following is NOT from "volvere." Can you pick it out? vault voluminous volley voluble devolve The path from "vault" to "volvere" leads (rather convolutedly) through Middle English, Anglo-French, and Vulgar Latin to Latin "volutus," past participle of "volvere." "Voluble" meant "rolling easily" before it meant "speaking readily," and "voluminous" first meant "consisting of many folds." "Devolve" ("to pass down," as in "the stewardship devolved upon the son") once meant literally "to roll down." The word that doesn’t belong is "volley." It’s from Latin "volare," meaning "to fly."

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According to my sister’s convoluted reasoning, I still owed her $20.

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Old 10-02-2003, 03:54 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Only out of prison a week, the ex- convoluting a business and got caught red-handed.
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Old 10-02-2003, 06:36 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Tax laws have become so convoluted that only accountants and lawyers understand them completely.
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Old 10-02-2003, 06:37 PM   #7 (permalink)
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He would often condone verbal assaults from his girlfriend since she's a practicing dominatrix.
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Old 10-02-2003, 06:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
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The entrepreneur's convoluted plans failed to impress enough investors to assure long lasting stability.
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Old 10-03-2003, 02:28 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Word of the day October 3

The Word of the Day for October 3 is:

flounce • \FLOWNSS ("OW" as in "cow")\ • (verb) 1a. to move with exaggerated jerky or bouncy motions; also, to move so as to draw attention to oneself; 1b. to go with sudden determination; 2. flounder, struggle

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Despite its rhyming connection with "bounce," the history behind "flounce" is not entirely certain. Its first recorded use as a verb in English occurred in 1542. Some scholars believe it is related to the Norwegian verb "flunsa" (meaning "to hurry" or "to work briskly") and the Swedish "flunsa" ("to fall with a splash" or "to plunge"). The connection is uncertain, however, because the "flunsa" verbs did not appear in their respective languages until the 18th century, long after "flounce" surfaced in English. A second distinct sense of "flounce," referring to a strip or ruffle of fabric attached on one edge, did not appear in English until the 18th century. This "flounce" derives from the Middle English "frouncen" ("to curl").

My sentence (using definition #1a):
The host of the party looked like she was dancing as she flounced about in an effort to greet each of the guests.

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Old 10-03-2003, 06:03 AM   #10 (permalink)
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After being told to go to the office, Danny flounced out of the classroom.
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Old 10-03-2003, 11:25 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Back in the day when I sold various and sundry items, I always used a kind of hanging type of scale (you know what I mean) that didn’t always measure a flounce .
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Old 10-03-2003, 02:15 PM   #12 (permalink)
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DJ Acucrack danced like an epileptic, flouncing like a fish out of water. (This is true, too -- I've seen him perform live, and it was very amusing.)
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Old 10-06-2003, 02:12 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Word of the day October 6

The Word of the Day for October 6 is:

hard-boiled • \HARD-BOYLD\ • (adjective) 1a. devoid of sentimentality; tough; 1b. of, relating to, or being a detective story featuring a tough unsentimental protagonist and a matter-of-fact attitude towards violence; 2. hardheaded, practical

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As a writer of local color, Mark Twain often used colloquialisms and regionalisms that were unfamiliar to many of his readers. When some of these expressions eventually caught on in the language at large, they were traced back to Twain. For example, he is credited with the first printed use of "blow up" ("to lose self-control") in 1871, of "slop" ("effusive sentimentality") in 1866, and of the phrase "sweat out" ("to endure or wait through the course of") in 1876. "Hard-boiled" is documented as being first used by Twain in 1886 as an adjective meaning "hardened." Apparently, Twain and others saw the boiling of an egg to harden the white and yolk as a metaphor for other kinds of hardening.

My sentence (using definition #2):
The young tycoon proved that to be successful in the cutthroat world of business you need to occasionally put aside hard-boiled business practices and go with your gut instincts.

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Old 10-06-2003, 04:16 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Was that a cussword I hard-boiled I’m getting me a paddle and going to teach you some manners.
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Old 10-06-2003, 05:57 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Some folks might call me hard-boiled but I like to think that packing a gat is just realistic in my line of work.
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Old 10-06-2003, 12:11 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Inspector Lee was a hard-boiled bloke carrying two guns and an attitude.
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Old 10-06-2003, 02:27 PM   #17 (permalink)
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John found that he had to be hard-boiled just to survive his environment.
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Old 10-07-2003, 01:17 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Word of the day October 7

The Word of the Day for October 7 is:

hiatus • \hye-AY-tus\ • (noun) 1. a break in or as if in a material object; gap; 2a. an interruption in time or continuity; break; 2b. a period when something (as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted

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"Hiatus" comes from "hiare," a Latin verb meaning "to gape" or "to yawn," and first appeared in English in the middle of the 16th century. Originally, the word referred to a gap or opening in something, such as a cave opening in a cliff. Occasionally, it has been used to describe holes in clothing, as when Laurence Sterne wrote in Tristram Shandy of "the hiatus in Phutatorius's breeches." These days, "hiatus" is usually used in a temporal sense to refer to a pause or interruption (as in a song), or a period during which an activity is temporarily suspended (such as a hiatus from teaching).

My sentence (using definition #2b):
After the summer hiatus (during which he mostly put his brain on hold), Tony returned to school ready for some serious studying.

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Old 10-07-2003, 05:52 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Some of my favorite TV show were put on what was called a hiatus by the networks but then never came back.
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Old 10-07-2003, 06:30 AM   #20 (permalink)
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To celebrate, we basically got hiatus some munchies and then crashed.
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Old 10-07-2003, 12:19 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Cheryl took a much needed hiatus from the many hours of unrewarding work.
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Old 10-07-2003, 01:20 PM   #22 (permalink)
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John's job was so stressful, that he felt the need to take a temporary hiatus before he burned out.
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Old 10-07-2003, 02:56 PM   #23 (permalink)
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I took a hiatus from school this afternoon.
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Old 10-07-2003, 07:52 PM   #24 (permalink)
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the question that I was asked the most when I toured the
deep, Deep south was, "Why d'yall hiatus so much?
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Old 10-07-2003, 08:59 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Mrsand, I don't believe condone fits in your sentence. :/
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Old 10-07-2003, 09:24 PM   #26 (permalink)
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The people of California disappoint me by forcing their governor to take a hiatus.
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Old 10-08-2003, 01:37 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Word of the day October 8

The Word of the Day for October 8 is:

pidgin • \PIH-jun\ • (noun) a simplified speech used for communication between people with different languages

A little more information about today’s word:
The history of "pidgin" begins about the early 19th century in the South China city of Guangzhou. Chinese merchants interacting with English speakers on the docks in this port sometimes pronounced the word "business" as "bigeon." By the century’s end, "bigeon" had degenerated into "pigeon" and finally "pidgin," which then appropriately became the descriptor of the unique communication necessitated when people who speak different languages meet. Pidgins generally consist of a small vocabulary (Chinese Pidgin English has only 700 words), but some have grown to become the native language of a group. Examples include Sea Island Creole spoken in South Carolina’s Sea Islands; Haitian Creole; and Louisiana Creole. The alteration of "bigeon" to "pigeon" also gave us "pigeon," meaning "an object of special concern" or "accepted business or interest."

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Creole, which is now spoken in parts of southern Louisiana, originated as a pidgin spoken between French-speaking colonists and African slaves.

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I am on the national "no call" list, but I STILL get tele-marketers pidgin their products to me every day.
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Old 10-08-2003, 04:07 AM   #29 (permalink)
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When asylum-seekers arrive, they often speak little more than a pidgin English, but soon they are capable of much more.
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Old 10-08-2003, 04:44 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Jim tried to pidgin with John, but speaking louder and slower didn't help since John didn't speak English.
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Old 10-08-2003, 05:54 AM   #31 (permalink)
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Spanglish is another example of a pidgin language.
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Old 10-08-2003, 04:13 PM   #32 (permalink)
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While I'd like to consider myself multilingual, I simply have not the extensive command of any language besides English, and it pains me to hold a conversation in pidgin, especially when visiting relatives or touring a foreign country.
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Word of the day October 9

The Word of the Day for October 9 is:

rutilant • \ROO-tuh-lunt\ • (adjective) having a reddish glow

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"Rutilant," which first appeared in English late in the 15th century, is used in English today to describe anything with a reddish or fiery glow, such as a sunset or flushed skin. It derives from the Latin "rutilus," meaning "ruddy," which is probably related to the Latin "ruber," meaning "red." "Ruber" itself is a direct ancestor of our word "rubella" (a disease named for the reddish color one's skin turns when afflicted with the condition) and "rubric" (which, among other things, can refer to a book or manuscript heading that is done or underlined in red). "Ruber" is also a distant relative of several English words for things that bear a reddish tone (including "russet," "rust," and "ruby") and even of the word "red" itself.

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Embarrassed by the surprise party we sprung on her, Joyce held up her hands in an effort to hide her rutilant face.

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Old 10-09-2003, 05:42 AM   #34 (permalink)
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The gem had a rutilant luster.
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Old 10-09-2003, 05:45 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Since you treated my to breakfast this morning, I’d like to take rutilant this afternoon.
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Old 10-09-2003, 06:05 AM   #36 (permalink)
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The dark clouds had streaks of rutilant color as the sun came up over the mountains.
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Old 10-09-2003, 06:22 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Naughty Natalie's rutilant buttocks received ample spankings.
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Word of the day October 10

The Word of the Day for October 10 is:

skirl • \SKURL\ • (verb) intransitive: of a bagpipe; to emit the high shrill tone of the chanter; also, to give forth music; transitive: to play (music) on the bagpipe

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Not every musical instrument is honored with its very own verb. But then, not every musical instrument emits a sound that quite matches that of a bagpipe. Depending on your ear, you might think bagpipes "give forth music," or you might be more apt to say they "shriek." If you are of the latter opinion, your thinking aligns with the earliest sense of "skirl"—"to shriek." Beginning around 1400, that early sense was used of screeching maids, winds, and the like. Scottish poet Robert Sempill first used it for bagpipes in the mid-1600s. The meaning of "skirl" has shifted over time, however, and these days you can use the verb without causing offense to bagpipers and bagpipe enthusiasts.

My sentence (using the transitive definition):
The bagpipes skirled, the bodhran drummed, the tartans swirled, and the Summer 2003 Highland Games were ushered in!

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Old 10-10-2003, 01:55 AM   #39 (permalink)
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Upon trying haggis for the first time the American let out a skirl sound.

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The first time I met her I said to myself: “ Skirl is going to be my wife.”
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