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by Dr. Goodword
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Cenacle
Replies: 0
Views: 31

Cenacle

• cenacle • Pronunciation: se -nê-kêl • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. The upper room in which the Last Supper took place. 2. An upstairs dining room. 3. A clique of friends, an inner circle, especially of writers or other artists. https://www.alphadictionary.com/images/cenacle.gif Notes...
by Dr. Goodword
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:06 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Relevant
Replies: 3
Views: 94

Re: Relevant

It was a misspelling of a misspelling. I copied an unedited version into the Agora.

My apologies. It's fixed now.
by Dr. Goodword
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:07 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Maundy
Replies: 0
Views: 26

Maundy

• maundy • Pronunciation: mawn -dee • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective, noun Meaning: 1. (Religion) The ceremonial washing the feet of the poor. 2. The alms associated with that ceremony. Today is Maundy Thursday, a traditional Christian celebration of the Last Supper, a Passover meal, probably t...
by Dr. Goodword
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:58 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Relevant
Replies: 3
Views: 94

Relevant

• relevant • Pronunciation: re -lê-vênt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Having a bearing on the matter at hand, pertinent, germane, apropos. Notes: This word is sometimes mispronounced revelant and misspelled relevent . Careful how you pronounce and spell it. The adverb is relevantly ...
by Dr. Goodword
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Contraband
Replies: 0
Views: 29

Contraband

• contraband • Pronunciation: kahn -trê-bænd • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. Smuggled goods, goods legally or otherwise prohibited from importation. 2. Smuggling, traffic in illegal goods. 3. Before the Civil War, a fugitive or captured slave. Notes: This word is closely associated with...
by Dr. Goodword
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:02 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Virgule
Replies: 0
Views: 34

Virgule

• virgule • Pronunciation: vêr -gyul • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. (Typography) Forward slash (/). 2. (Typography) Pipe (|), used mostly to mark poetic meter. Notes: Today's virgule is an extended version of a shorter slash used from the 13th to the 17th centuries that also developed ...
by Dr. Goodword
Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:42 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Sultry
Replies: 3
Views: 104

Re: Sultry

Jean Philippe Suter sent me a question which I will post here: Is the root swel behind today's good word also the origin of "sweat," the body's response to sultry conditions? It's a tempting connection to make. It doesn't seem so. Sweat seems to have come from PIE sweid- "to sweat,&qu...
by Dr. Goodword
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:29 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Sultry
Replies: 3
Views: 104

Sultry

• sultry • Pronunciation: sêl -tree • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Oppressively hot and humid, sweltering. 2. (of women) Sensual, sexually attractive, arousing desire in men. Notes: Today's Good Word comes with the usual adverb and noun, sultrily and sultriness . It is paralleled ...
by Dr. Goodword
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:47 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Ribald
Replies: 0
Views: 34

Ribald

• ribald • Pronunciation: rai -bawld or rib -êld • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Bawdy, raunchy risqué, coarsely funny, borderline obscene. Notes: Today's rather tawdry word started its life in the 13th century as a noun referring to the lowest servants in the royal court. Its meaning...
by Dr. Goodword
Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Parasite
Replies: 2
Views: 86

Parasite

• parasite • Pronunciation: pæ -rê-sait • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. An organism that depends on a host for its own survival, contributing nothing to the host. 2. A person who lives at the expense of another person or other people without contributing anything in return, a sponger, a...
by Dr. Goodword
Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:34 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Bygone
Replies: 0
Views: 32

Bygone

• bygone • Pronunciation: bai -gawn • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Temporarily gone by, chronologically passed, past, implying outmoded, old fashioned. Notes: Today's is a word used in so few familiar phrases, like 'bygone days' and 'bygone years' that we seem to have forgotten it is...
by Dr. Goodword
Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Ashram
Replies: 0
Views: 41

Ashram

• ashram • Pronunciation: ah -shrahm • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A place of religious retreat and sanctuary, especially a Hindu retreat. 2. A hermitage, a secluded dwelling of a Hindu sage. Notes: This word is seldom heard in conversations; it is more often read in published works. ...
by Dr. Goodword
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:45 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Enteric
Replies: 0
Views: 125

Enteric

• enteric • Pronunciation: en- ter -rik • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Pertaining to the intestines or, more generally, the digestive tract. 2. Designed to pass through the stomach unaltered and disintegrate in the intestines. Notes: Here is a word that has become much more useful...
by Dr. Goodword
Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:20 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Bonkers
Replies: 0
Views: 122

Bonkers

• bonkers • Pronunciation: bawng -kêrz • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Crazy. nuts, balmy, daft, loony, bananas, meshuga. 2. (British navy slang) Tipsy, light-headed, mildly drunk. Notes: Today's word is a rather funny synonym of crazy. It contains a very rare suffix, -ers, which p...
by Dr. Goodword
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Blarney
Replies: 0
Views: 139

Blarney

• blarney • Pronunciation: blahr -nee • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, mass Meaning: 1. Persuasive cajolery, eloquent flattery, silver tongued speech. 2. Nonsense, poppy-cock; foolish, misleading talk. Notes: Today's word is a lexical orphan, albeit an unusual one. It is unusual for a noun to refer...

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