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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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jejune adjective FORMAL DISAPPROVING
very simple or childish:
He made jejune generalizations about how all students were lazy and never did any work.from Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughWhen at length I returned to my rooms and found them exactly as I had left them that morning, I detected a jejune air that had not irked me before.
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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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Originally Posted by Jay
Hey, you looked that up!
You were explaining something to me, if I remember correctly, and I was awfully grateful . . . how weird to remember that now.
“As Kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame . . .”
Why disqualify the rush? I'm tabled. I'm tabled.
In the light of the vicious vocab thread thought this might be what we nedd~~bump~~
My mission in life is to make YOU smile
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"The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:
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I'm not sure if we have tried this one yet. How about a thread where you can post an interesting word you've come across and its definition. Lets come up with some good words. Are we not literate?
ca·price –noun [kuh-prees]
1. a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind or the weather.
2. a tendency to change one's mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality; capriciousness: With the caprice of a despotic king, he alternated between kindness and cruelty.
"I am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
I like the way this word sounds:
pulchritude –physical beauty; comeliness.
Calvin: You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
bon vivant \bon-vee-VONT\, noun:
A person with refined and sociable tastes, especially one who enjoys fine food and drink.
Bon vivant comes from French bon, "good" (from Latin bonus) + vivant, present participle of vivre, "to live," from Latin vivere.
from www.dictionary.com
aphorism (af-uh-riz-uhm) - An aphorism is a short, pithy statement containing a truth of general import; an epigram is like an aphorism, but lacking in general import. Maxim and saying can be used as synonyms for aphorism.
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"I am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
re·ful·gent (ri-fuhl-juhnt) –adjective: shining brightly; radiant; gleaming: Crystal chandeliers and gilded walls made the opera house a refulgent setting for the ball.
"I am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
votive candles lit in memory of someone in fullfillment of a vow to honor their death
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
vex·il·lol·o·gy [vek-suh-lol-uh-jee] –noun
the study of flags.
"I am glad to learn my friend that you had not yet submitted yourself to any of the mouldy laws of Literature."
-John Muir
"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
proselytize \PROS-uh-luh-tyz\, intransitive verb:
1. To induce someone to convert to one's religious faith.
2. To induce someone to join one's institution, cause, or political party.
3. To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
expiate (ex-pi-ate), verb
a)to extinguish the guilt incurred by b)to make amends for
And I have something to expiate: A pettiness. - D.H. Lawrence from The Snake
Mariology- study or doctrine relating to the Virgin Mary .
I'm nobody, who are you?
Are you nobody too?
There's a pair of us, don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know!
How dreary to be somebody!
contravene \kon-truh-VEEN\, transitive verb:
1. To act or be counter to; to violate.
2. To oppose in argument; to contradict.
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