word of the day thread

[cacian]

Each day one member post ONE WORD and all must use it in a SENTENCE!!

OK here here it is:


april 28 word of the day


troubadour (masculin) trobairitz (feminin)

A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old occitan lyrics poetry during the high middle ages (1100–1350). Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a torbairitz



''troubadour rhymes with amour and so it should''

[cacian]

april 29

reverberate/reverberation
''the repeat or an echo of a sound/news that travels fast and repeatedly

''some words reverbarate longer then others''

[jajdude]

You mean reverberate. Just a spelling thing.

One I learned not so long ago:

rac·on·teur

a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.

Mark Twain was quite the raconteur.

[cacian]

You mean reverberate. Just a spelling thing.

One I learned not so long ago:

rac·on·teur

a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.

Mark Twain was quite the raconteur.

''raconteur'' indeed is French for telling stories but In french it comes to mean ''telling fibs''
''il raconte des histoires'' translates to ''he is making it up''

another word that comes to mind right now which goes in the same phonetic sound is

the word of the day/april 30

''connoisseur'' a person with a great variety of knowledge.

''his connoisseurship skills were not up to scratch when it came to mind games''

[YesNo]

april 28 word of the day


troubadour (masculin) trobairitz (feminin)

A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old occitan lyrics poetry during the high middle ages (1100–1350). Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a torbairitz

I've never heard of trobairitz before, but here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trobairitz

[cacian]

I've never heard of trobairitz before, but here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trobairitz

Thank you YesNo.

[cacian]

May 01
word of the day

ABSENTEE: French/Latin derivative from ''absent'' which means not present.

I chose this word because it reminded me of the word ''absinthe'' the anis flavoured liquor which is a very powerful drink and which may cause an ''effect of absenteeism'' upon consuming it in large quantities.

[cacian]

May 02

word of the day

ROON : a colour red or vermillion red

here is a quote:
''Her face was like the lily roon.'' -J. R. Drake-

[BienvenuJDC]

As the sun set itself down in the sea, its colors unraveled, eventually leaving its prominent roon across the sky before the darkness smothered it all.

[cacian]

may 03

word of the day

castanet (castagnettes in French):

A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of slightly concave shells of hardwood, held in the palm of the hand by a connecting cord over the thumb and clapped together with the fingers. Often used in the plural.

[Sancho Panza]

Equivocation: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.

As featured in Macbeth, inspired by the events of the Gunpowder Plot and the descovery of the Treatise of Equivocation.


"Here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven" (2.3.8-10)

My sentence: This endless equivocation is quite unacceptable!

[cacian]

Thank you Sancho this is an interesting word
Equivocation as a word is composed of the word ''equi'' from equity and ''vocation'' as a hobbie and when together following this linguistic observation it could come to mean that it was/is someone paid position as to falsify a statement.

[cacian]

May 05

word of the day

AUREOLA : an aureola or aureole (diminutive of Latin aurea, "golden") is the radiance of luminous cloud which, in paintings of sacred personages, surrounds the whole figure.

it looked like an aureaola but was nothing compared to gold

[cacian]

May 06

word of the day

SLUR: A slur is a symbol in Western musical notation indicating that the notes it embraces are to be played without separation.

'in slur or in plur it is always heard'

[cacian]

May 07

word the day


PROPOLIS:
Propolis is a resinous mixture that honey bees collect from tree buds, sap flows, or other botanical sources. It is used as a sealant for unwanted open spaces in the hive

[cacian]

today word of the day is

DEBASER which means to lower or minimise something.

[cacian]

May 20

word of the day

HARBINGER:
Harbinger, a person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.

[NikolaiI]

Ooh, this is great! I should post one . . have to think of one . .

hm. .

okay, alluvial
(partly because I wasn't sure what it meant exactly but I had it floating around in my noggin).

adjective

1. of or pertaining to alluvium, which is . .


al·lu·vi·um
   [uh-loo-vee-uhm] Show IPA
noun, plural al·lu·vi·ums, al·lu·vi·a  [-vee-uh]

1. a deposit of sand, mud, etc., formed by flowing water.

2. the sedimentary matter deposited thus within recent times, especially in the valleys of large rivers.


. . . silt, anyone?