I don't get it...was that the april's fool?
I don't get it...was that the april's fool?
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
Gulible: easily gulled.
gull; a person easily tricked
viviparous (adjective SPECIALIZED)
giving birth to young that have already developed inside the mother's body rather than producing eggs.
PS: A word I learnt while reading Brave New World.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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sesquipedalian - Someone who is given to the use of long (often ridiculous) words.
April 10th: Fangorious
points to anyone who figures out what it means
extra points to anyone who figures out where it came from.
Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
Fangorious: Monsterous, evil, usually monsters with fangs......yeah, originally quoted by a guy nicked,"Strong BAd", on a certain website. Or at least thats what I got off of googling the word......
Another word from Brave New World
Malthusian
Pronunciation: mal-'th(y)ü-zh&n, mol-
Function: adjective
: of or relating to Malthus or to his theory that population tends to increase at a faster rate than its means of subsistence and that unless it is checked by moral restraint or by disease, famine, war, or other disaster widespread poverty and degradation inevitably result —Malthusian noun
Mal·thus /'mol-th&s/, Thomas Robert (1766–1834), British economist and demographer. Malthus presented his theory of population in An Essay on the Principle of Population, which was first published in 1798 but later expanded and documented. A pioneer in modern demography, he was descriptive rather than prescriptive in his work. An economic pessimist, he viewed poverty as unfortunate as well as inevitable. His thinking later had a profound influence upon Charles Darwin.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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April 16
defenestrate
v : throw through or out of the window; "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President
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Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
April 18th
man·i·fold ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mn-fld)
adj.
Many and varied; of many kinds; multiple: our manifold failings.
Having many features or forms: manifold intelligence.
Being such for a variety of reasons: a manifold traitor.
Consisting of or operating several devices of one kind at the same time.
n.
A whole composed of diverse elements.
One of several copies.
A pipe or chamber having multiple apertures for making connections.
Mathematics. A topological space or surface.
Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
equanimity
noun [U] FORMAL
calmness and self-control, especially after a shock or disappointment or in a difficult situation:
He received the news of his mother's death with remarkable equanimity.
Three years after the tragedy she has only just begun to regain her equanimity.
PS: I would hate to disappoint those of you who expected me to post buttercup as the word of the day this week so I will at least provide the link for it: buttercup
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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OH, I thought buttercup was different flower than this *glares at google images engine for misguiding me*
I still like the Foundations' version better
I have a plan: attack!
I hate that word, I can never remember what it means
cunning (CLEVER)
adjective
describes people who are clever at planning something so that they get what they want, especially by tricking other people, or things that are cleverly made for a particular purpose:
a cunning plan/ploy
He's a very cunning man.
I have a plan: attack!
Hylozoism:
n. belief that all matter has life. hylozoist, n. hylozoistic(al), a.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
Nice word, AP
I have a plan: attack!
serendipity noun [U]
the lucky tendency to find interesting or valuable things just by chance
The actress Lana Turner, it is said, was discovered by serendipity at Schwab's Hollywood drug store.
serendipitous adjective
Reading should be an adventure, a personal experience full of serendipitous surprises.
PS: One word I keep looking up in the dictionary... Always reminds me of 'serenity'.
Last edited by Scheherazade; 04-26-2005 at 09:35 AM.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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