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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    venerate

    Verb


    1: to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference
    2: to honor (as an icon or a relic) with a ritual act of devotion
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    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
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  • myra
    myra Posts: 1,257
    smarchee wrote:
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    Quadragesimals

    if you're gonna put that difficult a word we need a definition, the word sounded out, and it used in a sentence

    please :D

    quadragesimal |ˌkwädrəˈjesəməl|
    adjective [ attrib. ] archaic
    (of a fast, esp. one in Lent) lasting forty days.
    • belonging or appropriate to the period of Lent.

    I had to look it up too ;)
  • PearlOfAGirl
    PearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    HeartShapedBox wrote:
    Quadragesimals
    sorry folks....noun (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

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  • PearlOfAGirl
    PearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    tweak

    Wish you were here...
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  • tinkerbell
    tinkerbell New Zealand Posts: 2,161
    Aroha : Maori word meaning to love, care deeply
    all you need is love, love is all you need
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    tinkerbell wrote:
    Aroha : Maori word meaning to love, care deeply

    :D
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Intoxicated






    Word Origin & History

    intoxicate
    early 15c., "full of poison" (pp. adj.), from M.L. intoxicatus , pp. of intoxicare "to poison," from L. in- "in" + toxicare "to poison," from toxicum "poison" (see toxic). The verb meaning "to poison" is first attested 1520s; meaning "make drunk" first recorded 1570s (implied in intoxicated ).
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Aroha
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  • myra
    myra Posts: 1,257
    Riot
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    tu quoque

    TOO-KWOH-kwee

    noun

    : a retort charging an adversary with being or doing what he or she criticizes in others

    A typical tu quoque involves charging your accuser with whatever it is you've just been accused of rather than refuting the truth of the accusation -- an evasive strategy that may or may not meet with success. The term has been active in the English language for about 400 years and has been put to use by a number of English writers, including C.S. Lewis, who penned, "your condemnation of my taste is insolent; only manners deter me from a tu quoque." The term is Latin in origin and translates as "you too," although the translation "you're another" is sometimes used as well (as in our second example sentence). "Tu quoque" functions in English as a noun, but it's often used attributively to modify other nouns, as in "a tu quoque argument."
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    smarchee wrote:
    tu quoque

    TOO-KWOH-kwee

    noun

    : a retort charging an adversary with being or doing what he or she criticizes in others

    A typical tu quoque involves charging your accuser with whatever it is you've just been accused of rather than refuting the truth of the accusation -- an evasive strategy that may or may not meet with success. The term has been active in the English language for about 400 years and has been put to use by a number of English writers, including C.S. Lewis, who penned, "your condemnation of my taste is insolent; only manners deter me from a tu quoque." The term is Latin in origin and translates as "you too," although the translation "you're another" is sometimes used as well (as in our second example sentence). "Tu quoque" functions in English as a noun, but it's often used attributively to modify other nouns, as in "a tu quoque argument."


    Like hypocrite?
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    BinauralJam wrote:
    smarchee wrote:
    tu quoque

    TOO-KWOH-kwee

    noun

    : a retort charging an adversary with being or doing what he or she criticizes in others

    A typical tu quoque involves charging your accuser with whatever it is you've just been accused of rather than refuting the truth of the accusation -- an evasive strategy that may or may not meet with success. The term has been active in the English language for about 400 years and has been put to use by a number of English writers, including C.S. Lewis, who penned, "your condemnation of my taste is insolent; only manners deter me from a tu quoque." The term is Latin in origin and translates as "you too," although the translation "you're another" is sometimes used as well (as in our second example sentence). "Tu quoque" functions in English as a noun, but it's often used attributively to modify other nouns, as in "a tu quoque argument."


    Like hypocrite?


    That is a cool word / phrase. Never heard of that. sounds a bit like 'turning the tables' and just immediately accusing your accuser of the same thing (in an argument)
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    risible

    RIZZ-uh-bul

    adjective

    1a : capable of laughing b : disposed to laugh
    2: arousing or provoking laughter; especially : laughable
    3: associated with, relating to, or used in laughter

    If someone makes a ridiculous remark about your "risible muscles," he or she is not necessarily deriding your physique. "Risible" can also mean "associated with laughter," so "risible muscles" can simply be the ones used for laughing. (You've also got a set of risorius muscles around your mouth that help you smile.) Next time you find something laughable, tip your hat to "ridēre," the Latin verb meaning "to laugh" that gave us "risible" (and "ridiculous" and "deride," by the way).
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • tinkerbell
    tinkerbell New Zealand Posts: 2,161
    Kia Kaha - To be strong
    all you need is love, love is all you need
  • number1PJfan
    number1PJfan Posts: 3,748
    raconteur
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    tinkerbell wrote:
    Kia Kaha - To be strong

    Thanks, these few words have had a big effect on me these past few days. For obvious reasons. Kia Kaha
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    frenetic

    frih-NET-ik

    adjective

    : frenzied, frantic

    When life gets frenetic, things can seem absolutely insane -- at least that seems to be what folks in the Middle Ages thought. "Frenetik," in Middle English, meant "insane." When the word no longer denoted stark raving madness, it conjured up fanatical zealots. Today its seriousness has been downgraded to something more akin to "hectic." But if you trace "frenetic" back through Anglo-French and Latin, you'll find that it comes from Greek "phrenitis," a term describing an inflammation of the brain. "Phrēn," the Greek word for "mind," is a root you will recognize in "schizophrenic." As for "frenzied" and "frantic," they're not only synonyms of "frenetic" but relatives as well. "Frantic" comes from "frenetik," and "frenzied" traces back to "phrenitis."
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Knackered


    "Knackered" meaning tired, exhausted or broken in British and Irish slang is commonly used in Ireland and the United Kingdom. "Knackers" is also British/Australasian slang for testicles. A knacker is a person in the trade of rendering animals that are unfit for human consumption, such as horses that can no longer work. This leads to the slang expression "knackered" meaning very tired, or "ready for the knacker’s yard", where old horses are slaughtered and made into dog food and glue. A knacker's yard or knackery is different from a slaughterhouse, where animals are slaughtered for human consumption.
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  • PearlOfAGirl
    PearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    tinkerbell wrote:
    Aroha : Maori word meaning to love, care deeply
    I like this word! :thumbup:

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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    conciliatory
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