Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 22, 2011
xenogenic \zen-uh-JEN-ik\, adjective:
1. To be completely different from either parent, or from the source of an object's creation.
2. In biology, originating outside the organism or from a foreign substance introduced into the organism.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
xenogenic: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Crapulous - and a "test your memory" quiz
The Word of the Day for November 16 is:
crapulous \KRAP-yuh-lus\ adjective
1 : marked by intemperance especially in eating or drinking2 : sick from excessive indulgence in liquorExamples:Most of the guests were still crapulous from the previous night's bacchic revelry."They were crapulous and carrying blue cans of beer, one of them with a can in each hand." -- From Paul Theroux's 2008 book Ghost Train to the Eastern StarDid you know?"Crapulous" may sound like a word that you shouldn't use in polite company, but it actually has a long and perfectly respectable history (although it's not a particularly kind way to describe someone). It is derived from the Late Latin adjective "crapulosus," which in turn traces back to the Latin word "crapula," meaning "intoxication." "Crapula" itself comes from a much older Greek word for the headache one gets from drinking. "Crapulous" first appeared in print in 1536. Approximately 200 years later, its close cousin "crapulence" arrived on the scene as a word for sickness caused by drinking. "Crapulence" later acquired the meaning "great intemperance especially in drinking," but it is not an especially common word.Test Your Memory: What is the meaning of "vanguard," the Word of the Day from October 29? The answer is ... http://bit.ly/9aHcfFShare this Word of the Day:Email it http://www.drhinternet.net/mwshare/share.php?M=998929&C=2c1875063c303dbe24227a0fbbda360e&N=3713
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Efficacious
\ef-uh-KAY-shus\
Sunday, June 12, 2011
confiscable: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 29, 2010Today's word was submitted by Kayland H. Submit yours by going Back to School with Dictionary.com! confiscable \kuhn-FIS-kuh-buhl\, adjective: Liable to be taken by an authorized party. He knew of about a thousand bales of cotton, some of it private property, some of it confiscable, stored at various points on the banks of the Alabama. Only the treaties of England, in 1661, with Sweden, and in 1670 with Denmark, are founded on the ancient rule which regarded merely the ownership of the cargo, which declare the goods of a neutral merchant free in an enemy's vessel, and those of an enemy confiscable in a neutral bottom. Confiscable is a legal term whose source is the Latin confiscare, from com- "together" and fiscus, "public treasury," literally "money basket." | |
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  The TV show "Glee" is sassy, but what does the word "glee" have to do with squinting and schadenfreude?Cute teenagers, song and dance routines, even Britney Spears - this is "Glee's" moment in the sun. We want to take this same moment to illuminate some of the unusual senses of "glee" (like what it has to do with schadenfreude.) Let's begin with "Glee Club." These infamously chipper singing groups are called "glee" because the... |
admonition: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Word of the Day for Monday, September 1, 2008admonition \ad-muh-NISH-uhn\, noun: 1. Gentle or friendly reproof. After debating whether Keayne should be excommunicated, the congregation concluded that an admonition would suffice. And in religious families, the biblical admonition, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," is part of living-room and kitchen table conversations. Or there is this simple admonition: "Be careful, God is watching." Admonition derives from Latin admonitio, admonition-, from admonitus, past participle of admonere, to remind, or warn, strongly, from ad- (here used intensively) + monere, to remind, to warn. | |
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