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- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Easter
- Replies: 1
- Views: 163
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....
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Hallelujah
- Replies: 0
- Views: 404
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...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Cenacle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 589
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...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Relevant
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1203
Re: Relevant
It was a misspelling of a misspelling. I copied an unedited version into the Agora.
My apologies. It's fixed now.
My apologies. It's fixed now.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Maundy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1162
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...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Relevant
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1203
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 ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Contraband
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1185
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...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Virgule
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1138
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 ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Sultry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 861
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...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Sultry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 861
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 ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ribald
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1147
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...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Parasite
- Replies: 2
- Views: 747
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...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Bygone
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1182
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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Ashram
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1140
Ashram
• ashram • Pronunciation: ah -shrahm • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A place of religious retreat and sanctuary, especially a Hindu retreat. 2. A hermitage, a secluded dwelling of a Hindu sage. Notes: This word is seldom heard in conversations; it is more often read in published works. ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Enteric
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1231
Enteric
• enteric • Pronunciation: en- ter -rik • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. Pertaining to the intestines or, more generally, the digestive tract. 2. Designed to pass through the stomach unaltered and disintegrate in the intestines. Notes: Here is a word that has become much more useful...