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- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Pharisee
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4932
Re: Pharisee
Judging from my short excursion into the internot, it would appear that, in the interests of politesse, or political correctness if you will, using the small-p meanings of this word should be avoided. Any thoughts?
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Grenade
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6431
Re: Grenade
Given definition 2, I guess a Molotov cocktail would count as a grenade, too.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cenacle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2447
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Minstrel
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5268
Re: Minstrel
This morning this word reminded me of the wonderful Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Minstrel of the Dawn." I hadn't heard it in quite some time, but it still sounds great.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Adoxography
- Replies: 5
- Views: 172
Re: Adoxography
Lambent link.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Impromptu
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6565
Re: Impromptu
I can see why impromptitude never caught on; it really should mean lateness, not spur-of-the-momentness.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cantle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5177
Re: Cantle
A difficult one to remember, for me at least. There's cant argot, the gait canter, an intoning chanter, etc. vying for memory space. Being rare doesn't help much, either. I would like to be able to remember the back end of a saddle, though. Just to go along with pommel. A word we haven't seen here, ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Efflorescence
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3413
Re: Efflorescence
Well, it's the middle of April and we've got showers in my neck of the woods. May they bring an efflorescence of May flowers!
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Precarity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2539
Re: Precarity
Though teeth can theoretically be in a pre-carious state (no caries, as yet), which would make long term health prospects precarious, those "cariouses" aren't related. Unless there's some Proto PIE hiding out there.
This one's from PIE prek-/prok-, while t'other's from kere-. Wild.
This one's from PIE prek-/prok-, while t'other's from kere-. Wild.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coterie
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2952
Re: Coterie
Basically, yes. Now I'm also thinking that coterie may be in the middle, but it can go either way, depending on how it's deployed by the user and taken by the usee.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Coterie
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2952
Re: Coterie
If a cabal is usually up to no good, and a clique is as much for the exclusion of others as for the inclusion of like minds, where does a coterie fall? Any thoughts?
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: peroration
- Replies: 1
- Views: 64
Re: peroration
Dr, Goodword has treated this word, here. Perhaps someone would like to be the first to post a reply to it?
Welcome to the Agora, by the way!
Welcome to the Agora, by the way!
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Exemplar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5381
Re: Exemplar
A pronunciation thought-let; when saying words in a vacuum, as individuals, I frequently pronounce them too distinctly. As an example, words that begin with ex-. In normal speaking, it probably comes out as eg-z or ig-z. As an individual word, eks-. Is that what others find in their speaking/reading?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Velutinous
- Replies: 0
- Views: 52
Velutinous
The fuzzy GW for 4/10/24: • velutinous • Pronunciation: vê- lut -ên-ês • Hear it! [/url] Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Velvety, covered with a fine, soft, silky fiber. Notes: Today's Good Word is one that botanists have been hiding from us for centuries; it is most frequently used to refer to s...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Maundy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6518
Re: Maundy
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