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Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 11:16 am
by Katya
Portia wrote:Katya wrote:expiate - to atone for (guilt or sin)
Learned this one in the MTC's TRC.
I'd heard it in a religious context before, but I didn't realize it actually meant "to atone."
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 11:17 am
by Katya
farby - inauthentic to a time period (said of Civil War reenactors)
"Farb" is the noun form.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 2:44 pm
by Emiliana
Meiotic: characterized by meosis. It literally pertains to the division of cells, but the phrase I found it in was "Christianity's meiotic tendencies." An interesting metaphor.
Source: Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America by Jeff Chu
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 1:22 pm
by Katya
arraign - 1. Call or bring (someone) before a court to answer a criminal charge: "her sister was arraigned on attempted murder charges". 2. Find fault with (someone or something); censure: "the soldiers bitterly arraigned the government for failing to keep its word".
I wasn't familiar with the second definition.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 9:30 am
by Portia
desultory
Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
(of conversation or speech) Going from one subject to another in a halfhearted way; unfocused: "desultory conversation".
Encountered in
this article on joyless, unsexy sex in television (recommended!) of Don Draper. I'd seen the word but couldn't have clearly defined it.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:12 pm
by Katya
epicene - Having characteristics of both sexes or no characteristics of either sex; of indeterminate sex.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 3:01 pm
by Laser Jock
valuta - from context, money (what I can find online refers to exchange rates, but this is a bit of a different meaning)
Source:
Starship Troopers (would not recommend), by Robert A. Heinlein, pg. 201:
Churchill Road from the Base to the city is lined both sides with enterprises intended to separate painlessly a man from money he really hasn't any use for anyhow.... If you are able to get past these traps, through having already been bled of all valuta, there are still other places in the city almost as satisfactory...
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:28 am
by Katya
ormolu - an 18th-century English term for applying finely ground, high-carat gold in a mercury amalgam to an object of bronze
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:58 pm
by Giovanni Schwartz
dot·tle (dtl)
n.
The plug of tobacco ash left in the bowl of a pipe after it has been smoked.
Found while reading The Desert Spear, by Peter V. Brett. Pretty decent book/series, with very real characters (although most of them are largely driven by sex).
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 2:51 pm
by S.A.M.
Bathophobia - A fear of depths. This can include things like deep wells, lakes, and pools, along with long dark hallways and other types of depths.
(Not the thing that some kids have about getting clean)
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:01 am
by Katya
fleam - A handheld instrument used for bloodletting.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 3:59 pm
by S.A.M.
fideism - A reliance on faith rather than reason in pursuit of religious truth.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 11:30 am
by S.A.M.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:19 am
by Portia
Looking up "
gradating" as found
here, I found that it is a word and means
Pass or cause to pass by gradations from one shade of color to another.
It took me a minute to think what Tootles probably meant, and i can only guess
self-degradating.
The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:22 am
by Portia
Ooh! ooh! They are etymologically related, which pleases me.
gradation
degradation
They're basically antonyms! I vote that "self-gradation" now means to praise one's self or raise yourself in your own eyes.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 7:43 am
by S.A.M.
Portia wrote:I vote that "self-gradation" now means to praise one's self or raise yourself in your own eyes.
That definition totally works for when the teacher lets you score your own test.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:00 pm
by Yarjka
deontic (adj.)
of or pertaining to duty and moral obligation as ethical concepts.
People who have studied philosophy/law probably know this word, but it was a new one for me.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 12:54 pm
by mic0
A great accident:
"I re-whined & watched that part again"
re-whined. I just... it's great.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:33 pm
by S.A.M.
misconception - When you think you can get pregnant from kissing.
Re: Word of the Day
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:42 pm
by Katya
S.A.M. wrote:misconception - When you think you can get pregnant from kissing.
