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by Dr. Goodword
Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:03 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Verge
Replies: 0
Views: 17

Verge

• verge • Pronunciation: vêrj • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, verb Meaning: 1. (Noun) Brink, border, edge, the time just before the beginning. 2. (Verb) To be on the brink, border, edge, come close to, border on, to be just before. 3. (British) The shoulder of a road. Notes: We have two qualitativ...
by Dr. Goodword
Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:17 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Exodic
Replies: 1
Views: 38

Exodic

• exodic • Pronunciation: eg- zah -dik, ek- sah -tik • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Pertaining to an exodus, a (mass) departure, exiting, exiting, going out. 2. (Medicine) Efferent, referring to motor nerves carrying signals away from the spinal cord rather than esodic, afferent o...
by Dr. Goodword
Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:38 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Easter
Replies: 1
Views: 39

Easter

• Easter • Pronunciation: ee -stêr • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, proper Meaning: The Christian holiday celebrating Christ's resurrection from the dead. https://www.alphadictionary.com/images/cross.gif Notes: You might find it strange that we celebrate Christ's resurrection with rabbits and eggs....
by Dr. Goodword
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:51 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Hallelujah
Replies: 0
Views: 36

Hallelujah

• hallelujah • Pronunciation: hæ-lê- lu -yê • Hear it! Part of Speech: Interjection, noun Meaning: 1. (Interjection) An interjection of unexpected joy or relief. 2. (Noun) An exclamation of "Hallelujah!" or piece of music based on it. Notes: This word is a spelling nightmare. Don't forget...
by Dr. Goodword
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Cenacle
Replies: 1
Views: 102

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: 123

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: 31

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: 123

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: 42

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: 40

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: 116

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: 116

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: 43

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: 90

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: 39

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...

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