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- Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:37 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: complement
- Replies: 1
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complement
com·ple·ment [n. kom -pl uh -muhnt; v. kom -pl uh -ment] 1.something that completes or makes perfect: A good wine is a complement to a good meal. 2. the quantity or amount that completes anything: We now have a full complement of packers. 3. either of two parts or things needed to complete the whole...
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:13 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: cosset
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8350
cosset
cosset [ kos -it] –verb (used with object) 1. to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle. –noun 2. a lamb brought up without its dam; pet lamb. 3. any pet. Russians, when abroad, are over-apt to play the poltroon, to watch all their words, and to wonder what people are thinking of their conduct, or whether s...
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: potentate
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6298
potentate
potentate 1. One who has the power and position to rule over others; a monarch. 2. One who dominates or leads a group or an endeavor: industrial potentates . His principal weight and influence in the republic are derived from this independent title; from his great patrimonial estates; from his famil...
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: powerhouse
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4887
powerhouse
powerhouse [ pou -er-hous] 1. Electricity . a generating station. 2. a person, group, team, or the like, having great energy, strength, or potential for success. She is an editorial powerhouse . Clifton Wharton used a velvet touch to transform a troubled private pension company into a dynamic financ...
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:49 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: roseate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6854
roseate
roseate [ roh -zee-it, -eyt] 1. tinged with rose; rosy: a roseate dawn. 2. bright or promising: a roseate future. 3. incautiously optimistic: a roseate forecast for holiday sales. For instance, it says that one may have many, many fancies, my Barbara--that as soon as the spring comes on, one's thoug...
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: redress
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8237
- Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:47 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: hugger-mugger
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4548
hugger-mugger
hugger-mugger [ huhg -er-muhg-er] 1. disorder or confusion; muddle. 2. secrecy; reticence: Why is there such hugger-mugger about the scheme? Most chillingly, Walsh's 2000 play, Bedbound, depicted a young woman who has polio living hugger-mugger with her flamboyant father, in a space little bigger th...
- Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: redress
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8237
redress
redress [ri- dres ] 1. the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses. 2. relief from wrong or injury. 3. compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or injury. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered ...
- Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:23 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: ratiocination
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4669
ratiocination
ratiocination [rash-ee-os- uh - ney -sh uh n, -oh-s uh -, rat-ee-] the process of logical reasoning. When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians prod...
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:25 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: aberrant
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5136
aberrant
aberrant [ uh - ber - uh nt, ab -er-] 1. departing from the right, normal, or usual course. 2. deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal. These characters are so wild and aberrant they are close to appearing lunatics. Thanks to technology that captures brain activity ...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: patronize
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4727
patronize
patronize [ pey -tr uh -nahyz, pa ‐] 1. to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with. 2. to behave in an offensively condescending manner toward: a professor who patronizes his students. 3. to act as a patron toward (an artist, institution, etc.); support. "Com...
- Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:42 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: aggrandize
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4355
aggrandize
aggrandize [ uh - gran -dahyz, ag -r uh n-dahyz] 1. to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend. 2. to make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor. 3. to make (something) appear greater. It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in g...
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:57 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: hieratic
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4515
hieratic
[hahy- uh - rat -ik, hahy- rat -] 1.Also, hi·er·at·i·cal. of or pertaining to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly. 2.noting or pertaining to a form of ancient Egyptian writing consisting of abridged forms of hieroglyphics, used by the priests in their records. 3.noting or pertaining to c...
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: fervent
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4385
fervent
[ fur -v uh nt] 1. Having or showing great emotion or zeal; ardent: fervent protests ; a fervent admirer. 2. Extremely hot; glowing. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I raise fervent prayers to Heaven that the Almighty may exalt the race of the just, and...
- Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:33 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: relegate
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5238
relegate
[ rel -i-geyt] 1.to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service. 2.to consign or commit (a matter, task, etc.), as to a person: He relegates the less pleasant tasks to his assistant. 3.to assign or refer (some...