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June 01, 2006 05:30 PM EDT -- Today's Word of the Day is actually two words, effervesce and effervescent, but the fun is in the two sentences which give examples of usage. Why, you ask? Because it really happened! Enjoy! more
April 15, 2007 07:18 PM EDT -- I love this site: http://wordsmith.org/anagram.  This is a great way to spend more than a few minutes taking a word or a name and seeing how many words the "Internet Anagram Server" can . . . more
Proposal
by Sherwood M.
views: 13 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 52
March 06, 2008 11:58 AM EST -- First, do apologize this entry was/is late, but due to Gather glitches in the Guthrie change over I was not notified I'd been accepted to the group...so, enjoy the read. Proposal   Written . . . more
March 08, 2008 01:25 PM EST -- Life, from beginning to end is a sometimes precarious, exhilarating, splendid, melancholy, even bittersweet but always exciting and unique journey down the river of time into the Ocean of . . . more
March 08, 2008 02:18 PM EST -- I remember my day of creation, white swirling flakes, squealing laughter, mitten covered hands bringing life.   Smells of hot chocolate and cookies as pictures were taken for a photo album yet . . . more
March 29, 2008 03:18 PM EDT --   The seconds ticked ominously slow, the minute hand inching forward at a snail's pace as I   waited, thumbing through a magazine the fourth time through. I'd seen the receptionist . . . more
June 06, 2007 03:07 PM EDT -- UNIQUE Unique may be the foremost example of an absolute term – a term that, in the eyes of traditional grammarians, should not allow comparison or modification by an adverb of degree like very, . . . more
September 17, 2006 01:16 PM EDT -- Welcome to Sunday, and for those of you who have not visited the Writer's Block before, greetings.  I tend to read a lot of fantasy, Robert Jordan a favorite author, Terry Goodkind another.  . . . more
April 06, 2007 01:58 PM EDT -- Bored with / Bored of The word bored is usually used with the preposition with, as in I was bored with my life so I decided to make a fresh start elsewhere. Occasionally, bored is accompanied by the preposition . . . more
April 27, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --   "Pardon me sir; do you have any Grey Poupon?"   Normally, a zebra poking his head into my car would have gotten my attention, but a talking Zebra!   I was . . . more
March 08, 2008 05:12 PM EST -- The election process has just taken another ugly turn as Congressman King in a radio interview has stated Barrack Obama's election as our next president would have Muslims,   Islamic Radical . . . more
School Recess
by Clare Stella
views: 21 | rating: 10 | comments: 13
May 01, 2006 06:22 PM EDT -- Girls laugh gently Cruelly boys tease Teacher is the arbiter It's her that we must please. more
April 27, 2006 03:36 PM EDT -- -- cataplexy - A sudden loss of muscle tone and strength, usually caused by an extreme emotional stimulus -- Shot With Shock - cinquain witness unexpected cataplexy rising twitter quiver quake shake . . . more
April 25, 2007 10:18 AM EDT -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
April 16, 2008 03:21 AM EDT --   The photo made me smile, Samuel asleep, nestled against my shoulder. I entertained guests, smiled at well wishers celebrating our magical day. He'd been on a plane 39 hours, layovers in . . . more
May 25, 2006 03:05 PM EDT -- Have you checked on the Word of the Day lately? If so, you may have noticed that today's word is a three-fer: three related words, submitted to extend your writing vocabulary. Some of the illustrative . . . more
PERSPICACITY
by Kevin Weeks
views: 17 | rating: 10 | comments: 8
August 29, 2006 06:04 PM EDT -- per·spi·ca·ci·ty noun Of acute mental vision or discernment. Etymology: Latin perspicac-, perspicax, from perspicere Sentence: Employing her usual perspicacity, Florence quickly . . . more
March 26, 2007 01:27 PM EDT -- BRAND NEW   Nowadays, the word brand is probably most often heard with the meaning “a trademark or distinctive name identifying a product or a manufacturer,” but it can be traced all . . . more
April 20, 2007 12:06 PM EDT -- AX    Ax, a common nonstandard variant of ask, is often identified as an especially salient feature of African American Vernacular English. While it is true that the form is frequent in the . . . more
May 03, 2007 04:36 PM EDT -- FIXIN’ TO   Fixin’ to ranks with y’all as one of the best known markers of Southern dialects, although it occasionally appears in the informal speech and writing of non-Southerners . . . more
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