JadziaDax

The Word of the Day for April 21 is:

limn • \LIM\ • (verb) 1. to draw or paint on a surface; 2. to outline in clear sharp detail; delineate; 3. describe

A little more information about today’s word:
Allow us to shed some light on the history of "limn," a word with lustrous origins. "Limn" traces to the Middle French verb "enluminer" and ultimately to the Latin "illuminare," which means "to illuminate." Its use as an English verb dates from the days of Middle English; at first, "limn" referred to the action of illuminating (that is, decorating) medieval manuscripts with gold, silver, or brilliant colors. William Shakespeare extended the term to painting in his poem Venus and Adonis: "Look when a painter would surpass the life / In limning out a well-proportioned steed . . . ."

My sentence (using definition #2):
In her novel, Deborah limns a vivid picture of life in the rural America of the 1950s.

Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 10th Edition.

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krazykemist

In costume design class the professor keeps telling me not to limn the borders of the costumes.

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -- Tolstoy

deepinjello

To pass time during my chemistry exam, I limnned the desk I was sitting at.

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"Hike up your skirt and show the world to me"

redravin40

When you're writing it's very important to limn the characters in your story so that people have a clear idea of who they are.

mrsandman

Maybe if Marlene Dietrich had uttered:” limn me alone”, instead of: “I vant to be alone”, she would not be remembered at all.

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Hail to ALL the troops and shadow warriors.

spectre

In order to teach someone how to do something, you must limn exactly what they have to do.

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"Fuck these chains
No goddamn slave
I will be different" ~ Machine Head

Azharen

Venessa stood atop the hill and limmed the valley below in her sketchpad.

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To the True Warrior, Death is merely an Ally...

eyeronic

William Safire did an interesting thing on 'limn' in the New York Times Magazine a few months ago stating that the 3rd definition listed above(:describe) has become the most popular and the word has come to be used to mean illuminate or delineate most often.

As in, "I would love to limn all the positive qualities of Jadzia's tits, but it would take all day."

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I hold with those that favor fire.

onodrim

The plans to the new house were limmed out on the architect's blue print.

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"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides"
-Carl Sagan

JadziaDax

The Word of the Day for April 22 is:

revenant • \REH-vuh-nunt\ • (noun) one that returns after death or a long absence

A little more information about today’s word:
Frightening or friendly, the classic revenant is a ghost, a spectre returning from the dead. Sir Walter Scott, in his novel the Fair Maid of Perth used it that way in 1828, in one of the earliest uses of the word in English. Somewhat chillingly he wrote, "Nor of taking the fatal leap, had my revenant the slightest recollection." We borrowed "revenant" from the French, who created it from their verb "revenir," which means simply "to return" (as does its Latin ancestor, "revenire"). Later we appended a more earthly meaning; a revenant can be any flesh-and-blood returnee when we use it simply to mean a person who shows up after a long absence.*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

My sentence:
The play is about a family of revenants who come back to their ancestral home after years of political exile.

Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 10th Edition.

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ORGAN DONOR

hrmmm revenant aint in my dictionary. ok

here's my sentence.

One day, Jesus will revenenant and he wont be happy.


can tomorrow's word be hullabaloo?

World's King

I was waiting for the "Word of the Day" to start again.

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heavy is the head that wears the crown

JadziaDax

So where's the sentence?

World's King

I never did one before... I just enjoyed reading them.

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heavy is the head that wears the crown

krazykemist

New Orleans is a popular place for revenants because of the large following of voodoo.

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -- Tolstoy

uncle phil

in case of revenance, this car will be unmanned.

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

greytone

I am so glad that the TFP now fits the definition of a revenant.

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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"

Peetster

My favorite scene in "Hamlet" is when his revenant father warns of peril.

ratbastid

Nice cognate with the French verb <i>revenir</i>, to return.

My revenant knowlege of the French language is otherwise useless to me!

spectre

WK was waiting for the revenant of the word of the day.

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"Fuck these chains
No goddamn slave
I will be different" ~ Machine Head

Sticky

I was stopped at a red light in my chevette and this guy pulled up next to me in a porche. He was revenant so loud that I could not here the Neil Diamond on my 8-track.

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Sticky The Stickman

mrsandman

When I go kayaking, I prefer the revenant the lake.

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Hail to ALL the troops and shadow warriors.

ser1alkiller

The sun is revenant on this day...

redravin40

After the civil war there were many revenants who returned to find the places they'd left very different.

gov135

The revenant's return incited less hullabaloo than he hoped.

Yea! I used two at once.

Azharen

Revenant's are some of the toughest undead creatures to face in D&D.

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To the True Warrior, Death is merely an Ally...

JadziaDax

The Word of the Day for April 23 is:

sciolism • \SYE-uh-lih-zum\ • (noun) a superficial show of learning

A little more information about today’s word:
"Sciolism" comes from the Late Latin "sciolus," which means "smatterer" (or "one who speaks with spotty or superficial knowledge"). "Sciolus" comes from the diminutive of the Latin "scius," meaning "knowing," which itself comes from the verb "scire," meaning "to know." Of course, if you know something about Latin roots, you know that "scire" is the source of many other English words, including "science," "prescience" ("foreknowledge"), "nescience" ("lack of knowledge"), and "conscience."

My sentence:
The grad students in the corner of the cafe were engaged in a display of sciolism, tossing around trendy academic terms and evoking obscure writers.

Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 10th Edition.

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redravin40

All too often what is presented as learned speech these days, especially on television, is strictly sciolism.

mrsandman

My sciolism baggy pants that hang so low they
show my underwear, just basic Levi’s will do for me.

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Hail to ALL the troops and shadow warriors.

spectre

Being in college, I notice too many people exhibiting sciolism by using words that they obviously don't know the proper meaning of.

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"Fuck these chains
No goddamn slave
I will be different" ~ Machine Head

G_Whiz

I see a lot of people practicing sciolism when they read the word of the day thread.

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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

ARTelevision

Sciolism is great practice for Scrabble!

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create evolution

smithja0423

Our work-study student is usually so engrossed in a display of sciolism that he never really gets any true work done.

Azharen

When I hang out with my engineering friends we can get a little sciolistic with our obscure knowledge.

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To the True Warrior, Death is merely an Ally...

John_Gault

When I don't know what I'm talking about, I put on a great show of sciolism in hopes that people won't notice I'm just being pedantic.

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The battle against abject stupidity cannot be fought with reason.

I am Head inquisitor in qpid's liberation army so we can take over the world before Microsoft does... Join the Revolution!

rsl12

damn sciolists! get off my front porch before i sic 'bubba' on you! and take your prosthelytizing literature with you!

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JadziaDax

The Word of the Day for April 24 is:

roister • \ROY-ster\ • (verb) to engage in noisy revelry; carouse

A little more information about today’s word:
As Hugo Williams asserts in The Times Literary Supplement (November 15, 1991), roistering tends to be "funnier, sillier and less harmful than standard hooliganism, being based on nonsense rather than violence." Roisterers might be chagrined to learn that the word "roister" derives from a Middle French word that means "lout" or "boor" ("rustre"). Ultimately, however, it is from the fairly neutral Latin word "rusticus," meaning "rural." In the 16th century, the original English verb was simply "roist," and one who roisted was a "roister." Later, we changed the verb to "roister" and the corresponding noun to "roisterer."

My sentence:
Chandra didn't get much sleep last night—her neighbors were roistering until the wee hours of the morning, with a good deal of laughing and singing.

Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 10th Edition.

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ratbastid

Hey, that's the perfect word for today!

Today's my birthday (see the bottom of the front page--my name in lights!--<a href="http://www.tfproject.org">http://www.tfproject.org</a>), and I intend to <i>ROISTER</i>!

redravin40

I suspect the the D.C. get-to-gether of TFP will have some serious roistering.

uncle phil

i used to roister in my youth.

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.