Word Of The Day

[Rayne_Clowd]

I actually have this application on one of my blogs and I love looking at the new word each day, some I know, some I don't and so I learn something new.....I think its just a great way to expand your vocabulary.

I know there is another type of word thread but to be honest I was never quiet sure how it worked *smiles* and I am hoping this is different enough that there is room for two.

Now you may add your own words to this thread but please make sure you follow the same post setting as I use.

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Untiring (adjective) Characterized by hard work and perseverance.
Synonyms: hardworking, industrious, tireless.
Usage: He was an untiring fighter for justice, democracy, and tolerance.

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

I am doing a couple as I am going to be away for awhile, but as I said feel free to add your own.

satori \ suh-TOHR-ee \ , noun;
In Zen Buddhism, the state of sudden indescribable intuitive enlightenment.

Synonyms: enlightenment, understanding.

Usage: Jitka's hands, which were holding the worn and contemptible shorts, dropped when she saw in the eyes of her husband a reflection of her satori , or rather anti- satori , since it was icy and grim . . . My God, how we're living.

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

mussitate \ MUHS-i-teyt \ , verb;
To silently move the lips in simulation of audible speech.

Synonyms: Mutter

Usage: "Oh, Anu, I never thought to see you again," he mussitates . (I have appeared to him in my original form.) -- Dan Wick, The Devil's Tale

 

[Commendatore]

deliquescent\del-i-KWES-ent, adjective
Tending to melt or dissolve; especially : tending to undergo gradual dissolution and liquefaction by the attraction and absorption of moisture from the air

synonyms: "melty"

usage: Their writhing bodies were producing so much heat, it seemed through the sweat and friction that their flesh was deliquescent.

(I hope I got the format right...)

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

Thank you for adding Commendatore, looks pretty spot on to me. *smiles*

 

[RP519]

Schadenfreude

(shod-in-froy-duh) noun: German for 'happiness at the misfortune of others'
synonyms: Not sure
Useage: Upon seeing my exgirlfriend being arrested on the news, I was struck with a feeling of schadenfruede.

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[Rayne_Clowd]

stigmatize (verb) To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful.
Synonyms: brand, denounce, mark
Usage: She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock.

 

[IAboy]

stigmatize (verb) To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful.
Synonyms: brand, denounce, mark
Usage: She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock.

I hope that word will never be used when it comes to you my dear.

 

[IAboy]

Fatherland: German a person's native land or, sometimes, the land of his ancestors.

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

plutonic (adjective) Of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro.

Synonyms: irruptive

Usage: Toward noon, the doctor, for the purpose of burying the body, decided to descend into a ravine, in the midst of some plutonic rocks of primitive formation.

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

palliative: (noun) Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear.
Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigatory
Usage: Hospital administrators in the US only began to recognize the importance of palliative care for terminally ill patients relatively recently.

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

cockcrow: (noun) The first light of day.
Synonyms: aurora, break of day, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, sunrise, sunup, morning
Usage: She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

noisome: (adjective) Offensively malodorous.

Synonyms: foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, smelly, fetid, foul, stinking
Usage: The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place.