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by Klimt
Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:37 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: complement
Replies: 1
Views: 4610

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...
by Klimt
Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:13 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: cosset
Replies: 4
Views: 8155

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...
by Klimt
Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:34 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: potentate
Replies: 2
Views: 6102

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...
by Klimt
Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:21 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: powerhouse
Replies: 1
Views: 4802

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...
by Klimt
Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:49 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: roseate
Replies: 3
Views: 6685

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...
by Klimt
Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:07 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: redress
Replies: 4
Views: 7995

nice catch ... fixed.
by Klimt
Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:47 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: hugger-mugger
Replies: 1
Views: 4423

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...
by Klimt
Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:34 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: redress
Replies: 4
Views: 7995

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 ...
by Klimt
Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:23 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: ratiocination
Replies: 1
Views: 4544

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...
by Klimt
Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:25 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: aberrant
Replies: 1
Views: 5005

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 ...
by Klimt
Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:44 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: patronize
Replies: 1
Views: 4587

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...
by Klimt
Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:42 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: aggrandize
Replies: 1
Views: 4227

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...
by Klimt
Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:57 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: hieratic
Replies: 1
Views: 4386

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...
by Klimt
Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:44 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: fervent
Replies: 1
Views: 4243

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...
by Klimt
Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:33 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: relegate
Replies: 2
Views: 5128

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...

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