31 January 2009

LAME

Lame is not have a word of the day daily.

DEF:

just plain stupid, un-original, or lifeless. barbed wire tattoos, butterflies, and tribal tattoos are lame, they say a lot about the person who gets them.
sarah got a butterfly tattoo on her lower back. that's so lame, i'd rather get a dick on mine, at least i'll be more original.
(urbandictionary.com)


I am so guilty. Sorry!

25 January 2009

PROCLIVITIES

We all know Allison's proclivities -- watching pretty young girls.

Also, my proclivity to procrastination has become glaringly obvious in that I have posted the word of the day only once in a month. Bad me.

DEF:
–noun,
plural -ties.
natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.

Origin:
1585–95; < class="ital-inline">prōclīvitās tendency, lit., a steep descent, steepness, equiv. to prōclīv(is) sloping forward, steep (prō- pro- 1 + clīv(us) slope + -is adj. suffix) + -itās -ity
Dictionary.com Unabridged

07 January 2009

TRANSGRESSION

Upon seeing Christian juicing blood oranges, his landlady acted as if he had committed a transgression, while it was a mere solecism.

Apparently, juicing blood oranges is not the done thing in Tunisia.

DEF:
n.
  1. A violation of a law, command, or duty: "The same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man and woman" (Elizabeth Cady Stanton). See Synonyms at breach.
  2. The exceeding of due bounds or limits.
  3. A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME <>trānsgressiōn- (s. of trānsgressiō) a stepping across.
(American Heritage)

Sorry for the tardy postings. A two week break makes on lazy.

01 January 2009

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0102/p18s01-hfes.html

For all the word lovers out there, an article about words. Yeah!