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the DRE (direct record electronic) voting machines have been center stage at every bush-era stolen election..
just think about it..
the worthless word for the day is: nutant
[fr. L. nutare, to nod]
chiefly Bot. nodding; drooping
"The old bandstand stood empty, the equestrian statue
of the turbulent Huerta rode under the nutant trees
wild-eyed evermore, gazing over the valley..."
- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947)
the worthless word for the day is: gracile
[L. gracilis] /GRAS ul/ or /GRAS ile/
1) gracefully slender 2) graceful
"They were divided into two types-a slender "gracile"
type and a burlier, more primitive-appearing "robust"
type." - Donald. C. Johanson,
Lucy: The Beginning of Humankind (1987)
"The iceberg shattered like a gracile wine glass
being sung to by a heavy soprano."
- Reuters, October 02, 2006
the worthless word for the day is: vertiginous
[ad. L. vertigo, a whirling] /ver TIJ uh nus/
1) revolving; whirling round
2) affected with vertigo or dizziness; giddy, dizzy
3) unstable
"Wherever it was, in whatever city, it was a vast and
crowded station. Through its high windows the sun made
great solid bars of light in the dusty air that were
vertiginous to look up at: he remembered that."
- John Crowley, The Translator (2002)
"Recall my earlier mad cows and how they stayed young
as they moved about at vertiginous speeds, while the
sensible farmer got older every day."
- Joao Magueijo, Faster Than the Speed of Light (2003)
the worthless word for the day is: pessimize
[fr. L. pessimus, worst] /PES uh mize/
to take a negative view of; make the worst of
also, to act or speak in a pessimistic manner
cf. pessimal
"'You don't stay at Notre Dame very long making
a lot of third-and-eights,' Holtz pessimized."
- Chicago Sun Times Sept. 6, 1999
(quoting Lou Holtz)
"People optimize their own opinion and pessimize
others'." - E. Robert Morse, Amazement (2002)
the worthless word for the day is: objurgatory
[L. objurgatorius] /ob JURG uh tor ee/
expressing (a harsh or violent) rebuke
""You did not head for your pretended creek," he
added, after dealing in some objurgatory remarks that
we do not deem it necessary to record, "but steered
for that bluff, where every soul on board would have
been drowned, had we gone ashore.""
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder (1841)
the worthless word for the day is: internecion
[fr. L. internecare, to kill, destroy] /in ter NESH un/
rare (mutual) destruction, slaughter, massacre
"By the Spaniards in the West Indies, the numbers
of Internecions and Slaughters would exceed all
Arithmetical Calculation."
- Sir Matthew Hale,
The primitive origination of mankind (1677)
the worthless word for the day is: meticulosity
[from meticulous (after curious : curiosity)]
/muh tik yuh LAS ud ee/
the quality or state of being meticulous:
meticulousness
"..unconsciously explaining for inkstands, with a
meticulosity bordering on the insane, the various
meanings of all the different foreign parts of
speech he misused..."
- James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake (1939)
"Pam Wilkinson, editor extraordinaire, and my son
Stuart Calderwood, who canvased the manuscript with
a meticulosity bordering on the insane, have from
many blunder freed me, if not foolish notion."
- James L. Calderwood (1989, Acknowledgment)
the worthless word for the day is: nocuous
[fr. L. nocere, to harm] /NAH kyu wus/
harmful; noxious
hence: nocuously, nocuousness (both rare)
"To have that 'other woman', what's her name, accuse
him of adultery is self-seeking, nocuous, media
sensationalism."
- San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 1992
the worthless word for the day is: internesia
[blend of internet + amnesia] informal
the inability to remember either the location
of or information contained on a web site
the worthless word for the day is: caponier
[a. F. caponnière, ad. Sp. caponera in same sense]
/kae peh NIE(r)/?
a covered passage across a moat or ditch
"a covered passage across the ditch of a fortified
place, for the purpose either of sheltering
communication with outworks or of affording a
flanking fire to the ditch in which it stands"
- Stocqueler Mil. Dict. (1853)
"Its buildings are vast, with towers and pinnacles,
tunnels and embayments, wharves and anchor stands and
a chapel and a ravelin tower and a clutch of caponiers,
all hewn and blasted from the pink-and-white limestone,
and sewn together with plates of rusting iron."
- Simon Winchester, Outposts
the worthless word for the day is: capernoited
[perhaps from capernaite (a believer in
transubstantiation)] /KAP er noi ted/
Scot. 1) crabbed, peevish 2) muddleheaded, tipsy
"It was an ill hour that he darkened my doors in,
for, ever since that, Alan has given up his ain old-
fashioned mother-wit for the tother's capernoited
maggots and nonsense."
- Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet (1824)
"Of the stark aquavitæ they baith lo'ed a drappie,
And when capernutie then aye unco happy."
- Whistle-Binkie (Sc. Songs) (1853)
the worthless word for the day is: galliardise
[fr. F. galliard] (or galliardize) /GAL yeh(r) dize/
archaic exuberant merriment, (extreme) gaiety
"I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth
and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can
compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend
the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits
thereof." - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1643)
"Your life is one long gaillardise."
- Harper's Magazine, Feb. 1893
the worthless word for the day is: indurate
[fr. L. indurare] /IN duh rate/
[v] 1) to harden 2) to inure 3) to make callous
[a] hardened; obstinate
cf. obdurate
Thy heart indurate, shall poetic woe,
And plaintive ejulation, nought avail?
- Lord John Maclaurin, On Johnson's Dictionary (1798)
White as the snows of Apennine
Indurated by frost.
- William Wordsworth, The Eclipse of the Sun (1820)
"Bertram Cornell, the indurate, cold-blooded Englishman,
is struck by many arrows but remains upright and still
as a statue as his comrades make their way to safety."
- Dale L. Walker, Jack London: The Stories (ca. 2006)
the worthless word for the day is: laocoon
[after Laocoon, ancient Greek priest of Apollo
who is portrayed in a 1st century B.C. sculpture
in a heroic struggle against two giant serpents]
/lay AK oh wan/ one that struggles heroically
with crushing or baffling difficulties
"Hardy wrote as he pleased, just as any popular
novelist does, quite unaware of the particular
problems of his art, and yet it is Hardy who gives
the impression of being cramped, of being forced
into melodramatic laocoon attitudes, so that we
begin to appreciate his novels only for the
passages where the poet subdues the novelist."
- Graham Greene, The Lesson of the Master
the worthless word for the day is: contango
[perhaps an alteration of continue] /cuhn TANG go/
Commerce charge paid by purchaser for postponing
payment from one settling day to next
compare backwardation : postponement by seller of
delivery of stock; premium paid to buyer for such
postponement
"Heating fuels would be expected to be priced in a
backwardation structure during the winter and in a
contango structure during the fall."
- John Elting Treat, Energy Futures
the worthless word for the day is: terp
[Frisian] an artificial mound or hillock, the site
of a prehistoric village
"The terp as we know it today is the result of almost
800 years of occupation and complex site formation
processes." - J. C. Besteman, Excavations at Wijnaldum
not to be confused with terp, theater slang for 'stage
dancer' or chorus girl (or even for the short form of
terrapin)
"Variety bestowed its succinct accolades on him:
"George Balanchine has done an ace job on the terp
angle."" - Bernard Taper, Balanchine: A Biography
the worthless word for the day is: irenology
[fr. Gk irene, peace]
the study or science of peace
"All of these different approaches complement each
other and contribute to the rich diversity of the
emerging academic discipline, irenology, from the
Greek word for peace, "irene.""
- Ian M. Harris et al, Peace Education (2003)
compare polemology, the study of war
the worthless word for the day is: congou
[ad. Chinese kung-fu work, and workman, kung-fu-ch'a,
app. tea on which work or effort is expended - omission
of the f is the foreigner's corruption (Prof. Legge)]
/KUN(j) go/
a fine grade of black tea imported from China
"The chief varieties of black tea, arranged in [an
upward order of excellence] are Bohea, Oolong, Congou,
Campoi, etc."
- F. W. Pavy, Food & Dietetics (1875)
"For example, the company sold very little of the more
expensive and better quality Congou tea since it cost
twice as much as Bohea tea from China. There was
clearly a good opportunity here for the selling of
illicit Congou and within a decade it had become one
of the most popular black teas in Britain."
- William J. Ashworth, Customs and Excise (2003)
the worthless word for the day is: enatic
[L. enatus] also enate
related on the mother's side <enatic clans>
the worthless word for the day is: bêtise
[F, fr. bête, beast, fool, foolish, fr. OF beste, beast]
/bay TEZE/
1) a stupid or foolish act or remark
2) stupidity; folly
the worthless word for the day is: irreption
[fr. Latin irreptus] /eh REP shun/
creeping or stealing in, stealthy entrance
<the irreption of pseudoclassical plurals in
technical language>
the worthless word for the day is: ejulation
[L. ejulatio, fr. ejulare to wail, lament]
/EJ u LAY shun/?
obs. a wailing, lamentation
the worthless word for the day is: scry
[fr. shortening descry]
1) obs. descry 2) to practice crystal gazing
hence, scrying
the worthless word for the day is: fumifugist
[L. fumus, smoke + fugare, to put to flight,
fugere, to flee] /fu MIF u gist/?
obs. rare
the worthless word for the day is: tatum
[named to evoke the rapid-fire piano playing of jazz
keyboardist, Art Tatum]
Music the smallest perceptual time interval between
successive notes in a rhythmic phrase
the worthless word for the day is: treeware
[tree + -ware, after hardware, software, etc.]
computing slang, freq. humorous
documentation or other printed material
the worthless word for the day is: blatterer
[L blaterare to prate, babble] dialect
one who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering
boaster <he blattered along and managed to inquire
about pretty much everybody -- Mark Twain>
also blatteration, a blattering
the worthless word for the day is: bobbasheely
[fr. Choctaw itibapishily, lit., my brother with whom
I was suckled] U.S. dialect (Gulf States) /?/
[n] a very close friend, chum
[v] to associate with someone in a friendly fashion
the worthless word for the day is: antigodlin
[origin unknown] also antigoglin
U.S. dialect (Midl., SW)
[adj] lopsided, out of line: askew
[adv] at an angle; crosswise, diagonal(ly)
the worthless word for the day is: schizothemia
[fr. Gk schizo- < schizein, to split + thema, theme]
rare digression by means of a long reminiscence;
repeated interruptions of a conversation by the
speaker introducing other topics
(not to be confused with schizothymia)
the worthless word for the day is: micrology
[fr. Gk mikrologia minute discussion, frivolity]
/mahy KROL uh jee/
1) attention to petty details or distinctions;
nitpicking
the worthless word for the day is: impignorate
[fr. Latin pignerare, to pledge] obs.
[v] to place in pawn; to pledge or mortgage
[pple] pledged, pawned, mortgaged
the worthless word for the day is: epulose
[fr. L. epulum, a feast] /EP u lose/
obs. rare feasting to excess
hence epulosity, a feasting to excess
the worthless word for the day is: zoosemiotics
[fr. Gk zoi-, animal + semiotics, the study of signs
and symbols] /ZO uh sem ee OT ics/
the scientific study of signaling behavior in and
across animal species
the worthless word for the day is: musard
[F., fr. muser, to loiter, trifle] /MU sard/
obs. a dreamer; an absent-minded person
the worthless word for the day is: murdrum
[ML] /MUR drum/
early English law, now hist.
1) the killing of someone in a secret manner
2) a fine imposed by the Crown on a manor or hundred
the worthless word for the day is: perpession
[fr. L. perpessio, endurance of suffering]
/per PES sion/
obs. endurance of suffering
the worthless word for the day is: oicotype
[fr. Gk oikos house, dwelling + type] cf. ecotype*
/OY ko type/?
a term proposed by Carl Wilhelm von Sydow to designate
a local or regional form of a migratory folktale
The worship of words is more pernicious than the
worship of images; grammatolatry is the worst species
of idolatry.
the worthless word for the day is: oicotype
[fr. Gk oikos house, dwelling + type] cf. ecotype*
/OY ko type/?
a term proposed by Carl Wilhelm von Sydow to designate
a local or regional form of a migratory folktale
the worthless word for the day is: grammatolatry
[fr. Gk grammato- + Eng. -latry, worship of or fanatical
devotion to] /GRAM eh TAL eh tree/
the worship of letters or words; fig. concern for the
letter with disregard for the spirit
the worthless word for the day is: logomachist
[Gk logomachia + -ist] /lo GAM eh kest/
one given to disputes over or about words
(also logomach)
the worthless word for the day is: pundigrion
[origin unknown, but prob. the source of pun;
perhaps a humorous alteration of It. puntiglio
(equivocation, trivial objection)]
obs. rare a play on words; pun
the worthless word for the day is: haplography
[fr. Gk haplo- single + -graphy writing]
/hap LOG ruh fee/
the inadvertent omission of a repeated letter(s) in
writing (e.g. writing philogy for philology)
compare haplology, for pronunciation
the worthless word for the day is: logocentrism
[fr. Gk logos, word + -centrism] /lo go CEN triz em/
1) literary analysis that focuses on words and language
to the exclusion of non-linguistic matters such as the
author's individuality or historical context
2) excessive attention paid to the meanings of words
or distinctions in their usage
hence, logocentric
the worthless word for the day is: postpositive
[fr. L. postpositus, pple of postponere, to put after]
/post POZ i tiv/
[adj] a modifier placed after or at the end of a word
[n] a postpositive word
the worthless word for the day is: centicipitous
[fr. L. centum + caput, head] /cen ti CIP i tous/?
obs. rare hundred-headed {in Bailey}
the worthless word for the day is: abligurition
[f. L. abligurire, to spend in luxurious indulgence]
/ab lig yoor ISH un/
obs. lavish spending on food and drink
the worthless word for the day is: knackatory
[fr. knick-knack, itself a redup. of knack, a
toy or trifle] also knick-knackatory
a shop for finnimbruns (knick-knacks)
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