Made-up Word of the Day by LuRain Penny

LuRain’s New Word of the Day #6

Euphonious

(u-fon-ee -us)

 

LuRain’s New Word of the Day #8

Fugacious

(fyoo gay shush)

 

Comes from:

Latin

 

Definition:

brief, fleeting, temporary

 

Example:

As fugly woman, my love affairs were fugacious and fraught with failure.

 

Synonym:

blink of an eye

 

Antonym:

get off the stage already.

 

 

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LuRain’s New Word of the Day #7

Specious

(spee shush)

 

Comes from:

 Latin monks with plenty time on they hands

 

Definition:

attractively fallacious, dubious at best

 

Example:

Specious intelligence persuaded the country to war.

 

Synonym:

smoke and mirrors

 

Antonym:

the truth would have got him nowhere

 

 

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LuRain’s New Word of the Day #5

INSOUCIANT

(in soo see uh nt)

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Comes from:

Old French and vulgar Latin, though it sounds a bit fancy for that

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Definition:

Carefree, blithe, nonchalant

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Example:

With insouciant disregard for the obvious, our Vice President continues to thwart all attempts by  government scientists to urge regulation of Greenhouse gases, in favor of his oil company cronies.

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Synonym:

Not giving a good God damn

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Antinym:

Freaked out

 

*~? 

 

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Ms. Penny on Retrieving the Language, one word at a time: part 1

 

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With a little application, anyone can improve their mode of expression.

I had a rudimentary early education.

I do not remember myself inordinately enamored of words, in those days;

though I learned to read quickly and loved to write songs.

Nothing in my middle years exposed me to culture of the higher type.

You see, I spent the first 40 very odd years as a wastral. 

That’s a person determined on destruction and the damage that goes along.  

There were opportunities to better  myself.  

               I blew them off, up or away. 

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Wasn’t til my Comeback from Nowhere in the ’80’s,  my interest peaked.*

I had money for the first time in my life.

Bought me a little t.v.

That’s when I discovered that Perry Mason was still on. 

His vocabulary included words like, “honor, beauty, integrity, justice”. 

He inspired me to clean up my mouth.

*

Up til then I swore with impunity and delight.

 I didn’t like what the words meant, but loved the sound of them coming out.

I commence to seek around for subsitutes. 

Started watching Jeopardy.

I’d pick up new words by osmosis, used it incorrectly until someone elucidated me.

Gradually I built a vocabulary far beyond my station.

Nowadays, I  glean from the History Channel, PBS, or the Wikipedia.

*

to be continued…………………………….

 

 

* see ThIs PeNNy ReFuSeS To DroP  for more info on this. 

 

 

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LuRain’s New Word of the Day #4

 Blow Back

(blo bak)

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Comes from:

cutesy media jargon

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Meaning:

A regurgative reaction

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Example:

Blow back is on the uptick from change averse neo-cons.

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Synonym:

getting the shivs out

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Antonym:

swallowing crap whole without gagging

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Maintenance Drinker in the New Age.

Stop on by and take a gander.

;-}

Love,

LuRain

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LuRain’s New Word of the Day #3

Quotidian

(kwo tid e on)

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Comes from:

Latin

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Definition:

 commonplace, recurring daily

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 Example:

She sought oblivion in the bottle to escape a quotidian existence.

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  Synonym:

round and round it goes, where it stops, nobody knows.

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Antonym:

as rare as hen’s teeth

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 ;~}

 

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LuRain’s New Word of the Day #2

ABSQUATULATE

(ab squat chew late)

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Comes from:

English slang 

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 Definition:

To flee, with or w/out booty*

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Example:

He absquatulated with her pride, and wore it elsewhere as his own.

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Synonym:

scarper

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Antonym:

owning up and giving back.

 * 

*swag, not butt.

 

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LuRain’s New Word of the Day #1

Elucidate

 (ee-loo-syd-ate)

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 Comes from: 

Latin for enlighten

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    Meaning:  

Telling someone what they ignorant of

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  Example:

I pick up words by osmosis,

use them incorrectly, till somebody elucidates me.

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Synonym:   

righteous illumination

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Antonym:  

becloud, bedim, be dumb

 

;-} 

 

 

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