Word of the day June 2
 

The Word of the Day for June 2 is:

soporific • \sah-puh-RIH-fik\ • (adjective) 1a. causing or tending to cause sleep; 1b. tending to dull awareness or alertness; 2. of, relating to, or marked by sleepiness or lethargy

A little more information about today’s word:
In Greek, he was called "Hypnos," but in Latin his name was "Somnus," and he was the god of sleep, the son of Night, and the brother of Death. "Somnus" is also the Latin word for "sleep" and is related to the noun "sopor," another Latin term meaning "deep sleep." It is "sopor" that we find at the root of "soporific," an adjective that has been appearing in sleepy contexts in English since the mid-1600s.

My sentence (using definition #1a):
After dinner, Charles sank onto the couch by the fireplace and—succumbing to the soporific effect of his full belly and comfortable surroundings—quickly fell asleep.

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

Next sentence?

As much as I love baseball, it is just so soporific on television.

Even though I love the game, just reading a D&D book immediately has a soporific affect on me.

Turkey has a soporific effect on most individuals.

My wife sometimes has a soporific effect on me.

We’ll soon be having soporific can get Pizza Hut to deliver in this downpour.

The client data system training I'm going to is going to be extremely soporific.

Word of the day June 3
 

The Word of the Day for June 3 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.

Next sentence?

Larry Eustachy's and Mike Price's roistering cost them contracts worth millions.

Me and the boiz roistered all night long.. till the cops came.. then we roistered some more with our karaoke machine!

He tried to convince her roisters were aphrodisiacs, but she wasn’t biting.

My fraternity brothers & I were known to have a roistering party or two.;)

The wedding was roisterous and a good time was had by all.

I roistered with a girlfriend of mine until we both passed out on the bed... it was sweet.

Word of the day June 4
 

The Word of the Day for June 4 is:

cacography • \kak-AH-gruh-fee\ • (noun) 1. bad spelling; 2. bad handwriting

A little more information about today’s word:
In its earliest use in the 16th century, "cacography" meant not "incorrect spelling" but "a bad system of spelling." Today people worry about misspelling words, but back then there was little need for such concern. English spelling was far from standardized; people spelled words any way that made sense to them. Not every one was happy with such laxity, however, and over the coming centuries spelling reformers pressed for regularization. Some reformers thought spelling should reflect the etymological background of words; others thought words should be spelled the way they sound. And of course, everyone believed his or her own way of spelling was the best! Our present inconsistent system was arrived at over time. Today "cacography" usually suggests deviation from the established standards.

My sentence:
"I always wanted to be a contestant in the National Spelling Bee," said Pat, "but an unfortunate tendency to cacography prevented me from qualifying."

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

Next sentence?

i dun, hav a porblem wif; cacography

My cacography is something I've been battling all my life,
thank god for spell check.

He had such a large cacography designed was needed to show prospective paramours, so as not to shock and awe them.

I'll ask the next applicant at the office about his or her level of cacography skill.

:)

(It'll be a "trick" question.)

I'm a skilled cacographist because my misspellings are very consistant.

I am frequently guilty of cackografy.

awesome! my handwriting is the worst anyone has ever seen, now i have a word to describe it!

Word of the day June 5
 

The Word of the Day for June 5 is:

irenic • \i-REH-nik (with a long "i" in the first syllable)\ • (adjective) favoring, conducive to, or operating toward peace, moderation, or conciliation

A little more information about today’s word:
In Greek mythology, Eirene was one of the Horae, the goddesses of the seasons and natural order; in the Iliad they are the custodians of the gates of Olympus. According to Hesiod, the Horae were the daughters of Zeus and a Titaness named Themis, and their names indicate their function and relation to human life. Eirene was the goddess of peace. Her name is also the Greek word for "peace," and it gave rise to "irenic" and other peaceable terms including "irenics" (a theological term for advocacy of Christian unity), "Irena" (the genus name of two species of fairy bluebirds found in southern Asia and the Philippines), and the name "Irene."

My sentence:
Sasha had always been one of the more irenic students on campus, so we weren't surprised to learn that she had helped negotiate a truce between feuding student factions.

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

Next sentence?

The more IRENIC of us will survive to see a better world fashioned in our design.

Barry Manalow, who recently broke his substantial nose, said: “Irenic to a wall in the middle of the night.”

(uh, o.k.)

Even though I'm friendly, I'm usually not one of the more irenic of the groups I hang out with, I like to debate too much.

The Quakers have made being irenic an integral part of their religion.

After every holiday card exchange my best-friends cacogriphic penmanship allows me to laugh and joke with him for weeks on end.

Word of the day June 6
 

The Word of the Day for June 6 is:

betwixt • \bih-TWIKST\ • (adverb or preposition) between

A little more information about today’s word:
In the nursery rhyme used as today's sentence, perhaps you've always said "and so between the two of them." That's fine. When the nursery rhyme was created (probably in the 1600s in reference to Charles I of England and his wife Henrietta Maria), "betwixt" and "between" were apparently equal. "Twixt," like "tween," is closely related to "two" (and the "be-" prefix is Old English for "by"). A couple hundred years ago, the phrase "betwixt and between" took on a life of its own to mean "neither one thing nor the other." At about this same time, "betwixt" fell out of favor. But "betwixt" is not archaic. Nowadays it's simply used more consciously than "between."

My sentence:
Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean; and so betwixt the two of them, they licked the platter clean.

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

Next sentence?

"Life is a choice betwixt the devil and the deep blue sea." said the old fisherman.

I'd like to be betwixt a couple of hot blondes.

I have worked backstage on a major magicians set, and therefore, I won’t betwixted so easily next time.

ie, me pole is betwixt me nads. (use fat-bastard voice)

Betwixt Love & Lust, I pick Love.

Lust is the bonus.;)

When the NCAA official was caught playing the office pool for the bowl games, he found himself betwixt a rock and a hard place.

My hotel in Vegas was betwixt the New York-New York and the Boardwalk Casino.

I like my face to be betwixed a nice pair of breasts

My heart and head are
all betwixt

I love this word. Poets manna.


As an aside....I always thought the following would be a great line for a song-

Ah wanna put mah WEINER/iiiiiin beh-tweener

:)

...but that is just betwixt you, me, and the bedpost...

Word of the day June 9
 

The Word of the Day for June 9 is:

farrago • \fuh-RAH-goh\ • (noun) a confused mixture; hodgepodge

A little more information about today’s word:
"Farrago" might seem an unlikely relative of "farina" (the mealy breakfast cereal), but the two terms have their roots in the same Latin noun. Both derive from "far," the Latin name for "spelt" (a type of grain). In Latin, "farrago" meant "mixed fodder"—cattle feed, that is—or it was used more generally to mean "mixture." When it was adopted into English in the early 1600s, "farrago" retained the "mixture" sense of its ancestor. Today, we often use it for a jumble or medley of disorganized, haphazard, or even nonsensical ideas or elements.

My sentence:
"The book masquerades as a biography," stated the book review, "but it is actually an irresponsible farrago of fact, fiction, and even fantasy."

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

Next sentence?

My life is an interesting farrago of fact, fiction & fantasy.;)

You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

TFP is like a great big farrago of people and opinions.

Whenever I see a woman wearing farrago ballistic! (PETA says I'm supposed to.)

The new governors budget is a farrago of deceit, destructive spending cuts and out right blunders.

The stew was nothing more than a farrago of leftovers.

The mind of man is a farrago of nonsense.

???
or
or
hmmm...
Maybe I need to get you the Oxford English Dictionary's definition to convince you?

Word of the day June 10
 

The Word of the Day for June 10 is:

banausic • \buh-NAW-sik\ • (adjective) relating to or concerned with earning a living -- used pejoratively; also utilitarian, practical

A little more information about today’s word:
The ancient Greeks held intellectual pursuits in the highest esteem, and they considered ideal a leisurely life of contemplation. A large population of slaves enabled many Greek citizens to adopt that preferred lifestyle. Those who had others to do the heavy lifting for them tended to regard professional labor with contempt. Their prejudice against the need to toil to earn a living is reflected in the Greek adjective "banausikos" (the root of "banausic"), which not only means "of an artisan" and "nonintellectual," but also "vulgar."

My sentence:
Each summer, countless college students set aside their books and turn to more banausic tasks, such as waiting tables, to earn tuition and spending money for the coming year.

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

Next sentence?

At 13, I had the banausic job of being a caddy.

Tempers were flaring and as the Pit Bull looking menacingly at me, I told my neighbor: " Banausic that dog on me or you’ll regret it!”

When the executive was laid off he didn't want to take any banausic jobs but quickly found that he had to in order to pay the bills.

I had many banausic jobs in my early adult years.

If you're going to work in my kitchen, boy, you'd best be on your least banausic behavior!

My banausic plan is to be an Architect.

i just quit my banausic job, also, many people has used this word excatly as i have before me, i suck, in a banausic sort of way

Word of the day June 11
 

The Word of the Day for June 11 is:

cumshaw • \KUM-shaw\ • (noun) present, gratuity; also bribe, payoff

A little more information about today’s word:
It was probably British Navy personnel who first picked up "cumshaw" in Chinese ports, during the First Opium War of 1839_42. "Cumshaw" is from a word that means "grateful thanks" in the dialect of Xiamen, a port in southeast China. (Rendered "kam sia" in the Pinyin system of romanizing Chinese words, it’s still a common expression used by about one billion Chinese to show grateful thankfulness.) Apparently, sailors heard it from the beggars who hung around the ports, and mistook it as the word for a handout. Since then, U.S. sailors have given "cumshaw" its own unique application, for something obtained through unofficial means (whether deviously or simply ingeniously). Outside of naval circles, meanings of "cumshaw" range from a harmless gratuity to bending the rules a little to outright bribery.

My sentence:
"There are now strict rules against payoffs, and senior managers must sign monthly statements that all sales have been made . . . 'with no cumshaw whatsoever.'"
-- Louis Kraar, Fortune, October 1977

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

Next sentence?

Rupert lost control the other day looking at a Natasha post and my cumshaw(t) all over the place!

Although it was a real cum show, the male strippers left without a cumshaw from the ladies.

Cumshaw this board for me, I don’t have any carpenter skills.

cumshawa my lord, cumshawa!

I don't really know how the rest of the song goes. I'm sorry. I'll try to embarass myself better next time.

It looked like there would be no beer for the sailors but the chief cook met a few people and used a little cumshaw so 400 cases were mysteriously delivered to the ship.

There has been speculation that the former governor of Illinois took a cumshaw before his election.

Sometimes I feel if I'm ever going to get good service from tech support I have to give the guy on the other line a cumshaw.

And yes you could take that both ways...geez.:rolleyes:

Word of the day June 12
 

The Word of the Day for June 12 is:

defenestration • \dee-feh-nuh-STRAY-shun\ • (noun) a throwing of a person or thing out of a window

A little more information about today’s word:
These days "defenestration" is often used figuratively to describe the forceful removal of someone from public office or from some other advantageous position. History’s most famous defenestration, however, was one in which the tossing out the window was quite literal. On May 23, 1618, two imperial regents were found guilty of violating certain guarantees of religious freedom. As punishment, they were thrown out the window of Prague Castle. The men survived the 50-foot tumble into the moat, but the incident, which became known as the Defenestration of Prague, marked the beginning of the Bohemian resistance to Hapsburg rule that eventually led to the Thirty Years' War.

My sentence:
Inspector Fry surveyed the scene and asked himself three questions: did the man fall out the window accidentally, did he jump, or was this a case of murder by defenestration?

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

Next sentence?

He was so angry at the results of the hocky playoffs that the only course of action was the defenestraion of his TV set.

I’m not going to defenestration it or anything like that; I’m ambivalent to animals.

If I keep getting disconnects in chat, this computer is going to be defenestrated .

Don't do defenestration of the baby with the bathwater.

This whole idea of the USA going to war with North Korea should be defrenestrated.

Defrenestration was the primary way of killing people during the French Revolution. Really.

Ultimately, her defrenestration made her think twice about trying that shit again.

The porn starlet got a cumshaw at the end of filming.

Word of the day June 13
 

The Word of the Day for June 13 is:

exegesis • \ek-suh-JEE-sis\ • (noun) exposition, explanation; especially an explanation or critical interpretation of a text

A little more information about today’s word:
Theological scholars have long been preoccupied with interpreting the meanings of various passages in the Bible. In fact, because of the sacred status of the Bible in both Judaism and Christianity, biblical interpretation has played a crucial role in both of those religions throughout their histories. English speakers have used the word "exegesis"—a descendant of the Greek term "exegeisthai," meaning "to explain" or "to interpret"—to refer to explanations of Scripture since the early 17th century. Nowadays, however, academic writers interpret all sorts of texts, and "exegesis" is no longer associated mainly with the Bible.

My sentence:
"This biography of Augustine is compounded in equal measure of fact and exegesis, all of it offered up in elegant prose."
-- The Los Angeles Times, December 5, 1999

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

Next sentence?

How many times do I have to give you an exegesis before you'll understand? You do not feed gremlins after midnight!

If you continue to drive while drinking, you’ll need more than an exegesis on your dashboard to protect you.

One of the problems with literrature classes is that students are expected to exegesis a work of fiction rather then read it for enjoyment.

I am known for giving an exegesis on many different subjects.

boy, is that an understatement...
wait, wait...don't walk away.

If you think Judas Iscariot is going to finger you, you should take the exitJesus.

I had to write an exegesis on the works of Borges for an English class a few semesters ago.

The intern left her job with the President after allegations he received cumshaw during his term of office

The Park Ranger approved of Reforestation, but reacted badly to Defenestration.

Of all the books of the bible Exodus requires exegesis only in extraordinary examples.

You failed the english exam because your exegesis was not that of the professor's.

The act of defenestration on his computer was caused by his it locking up as he was leading the game in first place.

My mom always said, "How many times to I have to give you an exegesis? Brush your teeth before you go to bed!"

Cumshaw is one helluva way to leave freely from jail in D&D, but it has to be my favorites too :)

Mr. Coleslaw, also known as "King Scrimshaw" was known to have deep pockets for the cumshaw he had to throw the way of the authoritys so that he would have endless supplies of illegal ivory in which to practice his craft.

The book, "V.A.L.I.S" by Phillip K. Dick is his exegesis on life, God and the duality of the universe

Little Jimmy Hefflefinger, the town kook, was known for miles around for his annual act of lunacy on this day. His antics never failed to culminate in the public display of devouring insects and
self-defenestration.

The Son of God and I used to date, but now He's my exegesis.

Mary's exegesis about parenting was worth listening to.

Re: Word of the day June 11
 

Bullshit!
"kam sia" is not from the pinyin system. It doesnt even obey the laws of pin yin
The correct romanization is "gan xie"

Exegesis' are great for hemroids

Exegis, movement of jah people!

Sorry. I cannot, ever, state enough how deep my love for Bob Marley runs.

Re: Re: Word of the day June 11
 

Great vocabulary you've got there...

Kiss you mother with that mouth?

Re: Re: Re: Word of the day June 11
 

Maybe it can be romanised with the Pin Yin system to a properly polite and respectful post.

Word of the day June 16
 

The Word of the Day for June 16 is:

hew • \HYOO\ • (verb) 1. to cut or fell with blows (as of an ax); 2. to give shape to with or as if with an ax; 3. to conform, adhere

A little more information about today’s word:
"Hew" is a strong, simple word of Anglo-Saxon descent. It can suggest actual ax-wielding, or it can be figurative: "If . . . our ambition hews and shapes [our] new relations, their virtue escapes, as strawberries lose their flavor in garden-beds" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). It's easy to see how the figurative "shape" sense of "hew" developed from the literal hacking sense, but what does chopping have to do with adhering and conforming? That sense first appeared in the late 1800s in the phrase "hew to the line." The "hew line" is a line marked along the length of a log indicating where to chop in order to shape a beam. "Hewing to the line," literally, is cutting along the mark—adhering to it—until the side of the log is squared.

My sentence (using definition #3):
It was simpler and cheaper to hew to tradition when it came to a wedding dress, Sylvia found out, and finally she gave up on the pale green satin gown she'd dreamed of.

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

Next sentence?

I hadn’t noticed the patrol car parked there, so I got a ticket for making a hew-turn.

*atch-hew *

Pardon me.