Tag: words
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September 15, 2007 08:40 AM EDT --
I have favorite words I like to use. Minds eye are two grouped together. I like Wordsmith too but I am not sure if that is one word or two. My favorite word that is a color is violet.
And my most favorite . . . more
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May 23, 2008 12:30 AM EDT --
Dear Gather folk: I am a proud member of wordsmith.org. Every day, I'm gifted with a new word. Today it is Tartuffe. It is an eponym. Can you make a sentence using . . . more
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December 12, 2007 07:58 PM EST --
I hope I am not embarking on a far ce in this, my first attempt at creating an article for Ernie's intriguing group "Play On Words." I am actually al arm ed at how intimidating it is to . . . more
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March 10, 2008 12:52 AM EDT --
Down on the bayous, we have an inside joke about folks using big words. We call them fifty cent words. I'm prone to be crazy about new words. I guess it's because years ago, . . . more
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March 11, 2007 09:51 PM EDT --
My personal favorite.....thank you Beatrix Potter.....actually it is two......is
SOPORIFIC EFFECT
lettuce has that quality on the bunnies making them sleepy.
What's in your vocabulary? . . . more
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October 13, 2007 12:02 AM EDT --
Words of Wisdom!
Please share some true words of wisdom with me!
"Sometimes I fall off the trail of life and need a helping word to help me back on!~"
Here's one . . . more
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September 30, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
Give me things that come in pairs. This might be hard somewhere down the line. But let's do it!
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October 10, 2007 01:40 PM EDT --
Let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we . . . more
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December 25, 2006 09:21 PM EST --
This is one of those cute things kids say.
My husband had a little bike given to him. It was like new. My husband had to put a new seat and hand grips on it and shine it up. It looked almost like . . . more
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November 13, 2007 12:45 PM EST --
How many words can you make out of Thanksgiving??
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July 02, 2008 07:49 PM EDT --
Game time!
Name a job title. How many can you think of? Just 1 per post, please.
Thank you for playing!
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July 28, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --
After a short weekend hiatus, the daily vocabulary expansion feature is back. Popped open the unabridged and presto .... our word for the day.
July 28, 2008
recrudescence . . . more
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February 08, 2008 11:43 AM EST --
This was on NPR's Talk of the Nation, yesterday - Six-Word Memoirs: Life Stories Distilled
Once Ernest Hemingway was asked to write a full-length story in six words. His response was: . . . more
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February 27, 2008 03:26 PM EST --
Snippets of my lost Mom were flashing in front of my eyes. Soon I realized that my eyes were drenched and burning. I had lost her three weeks ago. My . . . more
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March 10, 2008 10:47 PM EDT --
CLANG... This time the chilling sound of steel on steel reverberated straight through blood and penetrated bone. This time the slam of a six by eight-cell door . . . more
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May 05, 2008 06:31 AM EDT --
"What's wrong with this one?" Small, dark fingers traced the egg white cooked into the crust.
"Nothing child. It's just left over."
"What about the rest?"
Esther . . . more
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June 28, 2008 01:22 PM EDT --
Crouching behind the fence, trying to quell a growing sense of foreboding, Emma glanced at her watch for the fifth time that minute. "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon!" she hissed through clenched . . . more
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August 19, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
The weeded steps drew me in like idiot flies to the burning candles. I had to see.
He was there. Definitely not helping her put on the bride's maid dress.
She mumbled.
He nearly shouted in . . . more
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December 22, 2007 11:38 AM EST --
How many words can you add to LYING- I will start off with:
Lying with
Lying to
Lying on
Lying beside
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July 21, 2008 11:19 AM EDT --
Here is a word for today:
July 21, 2008
balbuties n.
stammering; also, a kind of defective pronunciation.
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