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by Dr. Goodword
Sat May 24, 2008 10:58 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: LAMBENT
Replies: 2
Views: 5285

LAMBENT

• lambent • Pronunciation: læm -bênt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Playing slowly and softly over a surface, breaking up or flickering, as lambent moonlight on the rippling lake. 2. Glowing faintly, as a lambent light in the fog. 3. Gracefully sportive and flashing occasionally, ...
by Dr. Goodword
Fri May 23, 2008 11:31 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: TENDENTIOUS
Replies: 4
Views: 8267

TENDENTIOUS

• tendentious • Pronunciation: ten- den -chês • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Showing a strong bias, from a strongly held point of view, didactic. Notes: Today's Good Word is an adjective for the noun tendency and is a near synonym of a rarely heard word, tendential. Tendential is a m...
by Dr. Goodword
Thu May 22, 2008 10:31 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: PLASTIC
Replies: 6
Views: 8618

PLASTIC

• plastic • Pronunciation: plæs -tik • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Malleable, soft, pliable, molding easily, as a plastic clay. 2. Adaptive, able to adapt to new or changing conditions, as a plastic imagination. 3. Made of the synthetic material, plastic, as a plastic umbrella. 4...
by Dr. Goodword
Wed May 21, 2008 11:16 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: JUKEBOX
Replies: 4
Views: 7505

JUKEBOX

• jukebox • Pronunciation: juk -bahks • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: An automatic record or CD player, decorated with a colorful display of flashing lights, that plays a song for a coin. Notes: Today's word is based on an African word for "bad", juke, also found in juke joint, t...
by Dr. Goodword
Tue May 20, 2008 11:43 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: FRAUGHT
Replies: 1
Views: 4576

FRAUGHT

• fraught • Pronunciation: frawt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Laden, having a lot of, heavy or filled (with). 2. Over-wrought, nervous, tense, on the brink of breaking down, as someone nervous and fraught. Notes: Today's Good Word is an odd little adjective fraught with the comm...
by Dr. Goodword
Mon May 19, 2008 10:39 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: SOS
Replies: 11
Views: 15252

CQ

In addition to too little info on the number of "clicks" in the Morse alphabet, I couldn't find any information on what "CQ" stood for--if it stood for anything. Does anyone know?
by Dr. Goodword
Mon May 19, 2008 10:37 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: BUGABOO
Replies: 4
Views: 6580

BUGABOO

• bugaboo • Pronunciation: bêg -ê-bu • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: Something frightening or threatening. Notes: Today's Good Word is a member of a family of semantically related words that are probably historically related, too, including bugbear , bogy , bogyman and regional boogerman ....
by Dr. Goodword
Sat May 17, 2008 11:03 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Good Words for May and June
Replies: 1
Views: 4864

Good Words for May and June

We have quite a backlog of suggested words, over 100. However, I have just added about 35 more suggestions from this shop in the Agora. Whether they appear now depends on whether they tell a good story. Just so you know that you are not being neglected, here is a list of those that made the first cu...
by Dr. Goodword
Sat May 17, 2008 10:47 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: SOS
Replies: 11
Views: 15252

SOS

• SOS • Pronunciation: es-o- es • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: An emergency distress signal to elicit help; a mayday. Notes: Notice that we spell today's word without periods even though it is widely taken to be an abbreviation. Many think that it stands for "save our ship", &qu...
by Dr. Goodword
Sat May 17, 2008 12:05 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: Prodigal
Replies: 4
Views: 9834

Prodigal

• prodigal • Pronunciation: prah -dê-gêl • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Recklessly extravagant, wastefully lavish. 2. Profuse, superabundant. Notes: Today's Good Word is probably encountered most often in the crystallized phrase prodigal son for reasons provided in the Word Histor...
by Dr. Goodword
Wed May 14, 2008 11:59 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: PURFLE
Replies: 1
Views: 3936

PURFLE

• purfle • Pronunciation: pêr -fêl • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A decorative border or trim, decoration along the edge, as in the picture of the veil below. 2. A line or narrow strip inlaid or otherwise added as decoration. Notes: Purfles today are added to veils, countertops, and es...
by Dr. Goodword
Tue May 13, 2008 11:24 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: IGNORAMUS
Replies: 1
Views: 3708

IGNORAMUS

• ignoramus • Pronunciation: ig-nê- ray -mês • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. An ignorant person, a person lacking basic knowledge. 2. (Legal Latin) The status of a grand jury indictment in cases where evidence is insufficient to send the case to jury trial. The Latin word means "we...
by Dr. Goodword
Mon May 12, 2008 11:38 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: BICAMERAL
Replies: 1
Views: 3607

BICAMERAL

• bicameral • Pronunciation: bay- kæ -mê-rêl • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Today's Good Word does not refer to an animal with two humps but to 1. a legislature or other organization with two distinct bodies, as the US Congress with its House of Representatives and Senate, or 2. anyt...
by Dr. Goodword
Mon May 12, 2008 12:00 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: TELEOLOGY
Replies: 9
Views: 13913

TELEOLOGY

• teleology • Pronunciation: te-li- ah -lê-ji • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, mass Meaning: The causal factors in the development of things or the study of these factors, which is to say, the study of how phenomena get to be the way they are. Notes: Everyone wants to know why the things around us ...
by Dr. Goodword
Sat May 10, 2008 11:52 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: MOTHER
Replies: 2
Views: 4655

MOTHER

• mother • Pronunciation: mê -dhêr • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: The female parent, a woman who bears and/or primarily raises a child. Notes: Mother, the word, has born a large and happy family of derivational offspring. The adjective and adverb of this noun are both motherly , which has...

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