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 Posted - 03/13/2010 : 19:26:48
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Erudite \AIR-yuh-dyt; -uh-dyt\ , adjective;
1.
Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; learned.
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In front of imposing edifices like the Topkapi Palace or Hagia Sophia are guides displaying Government-issued licenses. Many of these guides are erudite historians who have quit low-paying jobs as university professors and now offer private tours.
-- "What's Doing in Istanbul", New York Times, February 23, 1997
The works of Baudrillard, Deleuze, Guattari and Virilio are filled with seemingly erudite references to relativity, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, etc.
-- Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense
Fantasy baseball, in its modern form, was born 30 years ago as a diversion played by a group of erudite baseball fans.
-- John Oudens, "Fantasy Baseball", New York Times, January 23, 2010
Origin:
Erudite comes from Latin eruditus, from e-, "out of, from" + rudis, "rough, untaught," which is also the source of English rude. Hence one who is erudite has been brought out of a rough, untaught, rude state.
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| davidt
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Posted - 03/14/2010 : 05:59:28
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Fulminate \FUL-muh-nayt\ , intransitive verb;
1.
To issue or utter verbal attacks or censures authoritatively or menacingly.
2.
To explode; to detonate.
transitive verb:
1.
To utter or send out with denunciations or censures.
2.
To cause to explode.
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| Chris
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Posted - 03/14/2010 : 13:40:49
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refrigerator blindness
A) Selective loss of visual acuity in association with common foraging of the refrigerator. Predominantly seen in children and males.
"Honey, where's the orange juice?"
"Are you blind? Second shelf on the right!"
"Sorry, must be that pesky refrigerator blindness again..."
B) a loss of sight due to sensitive eyes being exposed to the interior light of a refrigerator. Often occurs during midnight snack raids.
Tristan had to see the doctor because of his case of acute refrigerator blindness - he should have worn sunglasses when he made that sandwich at 1 am last night...
C) It's the temporary blindness after looking into the refrigerator light at night.
Steven: Damn, last night I banged my head after reciving a nice bit of refrigerator blindness.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=refrigerator%20blindness
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Posted - 03/15/2010 : 16:38:38
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"There are times when we have to eat our words, and that's never pleasant. This week's words are all edible (and some potable), from Latin edere: to eat (and potare: to drink). Some describe food, others are used metaphorically, and in some cases, the food origin is hidden in the etymology.
And we have quite a varied menu. We serve words from French, Spanish, and Latin. Bon appétit!"
Salmagundi
PRONUNCIATION:
(sal-muh-GUHN-dee)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A heterogeneous mixture.
2. A mixed salad of various ingredients, such as meat, eggs, anchovies, onions, oil, vinegar, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French salmagondis (originally "seasoned salted meats"), probably from salemine (salted food) + condir (to season).
USAGE:
"After a few years of musical production, the varied musical whims that have inspired their salmagundi of tracks is happily all over the place."
One-man Band Bounces Back To Originality; Gainesville Sun (Florida); Jul 1, 2007.
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Posted - 03/15/2010 : 20:48:38
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 Gorf:
To gobble food down the gullet, eat like a pig, a ravenous munching.
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| metasegue
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Posted - 03/15/2010 : 21:58:51
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"Alarmedit" --A noun referring to a situation where you've just made
a really stupid comment in a post and you need to remove it before
anyone sees it. 
Keith
A little constructive
paranoia can
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Posted - 03/16/2010 : 08:50:22
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Edacious
PRONUNCIATION:
(i-DAY-shuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Devouring; voracious.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, and postprandial.
USAGE:
"For too many years my edacious reading habits had been leading me into one unappealing corner after another, dank cul-de-sacs littered with tear-stained diaries, empty pill bottles, bulging briefcases, broken vows, humdrum phrases, sociological swab samples, and the (lovely?) bones of dismembered children."
Tom Robbins; In Defiance of Gravity; Harper's (New York); Sep 2004.
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| khaz
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Posted - 03/16/2010 : 13:10:54
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Yute
thought it was who the Americans spelt ute...lol |
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| khaz
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Posted - 03/16/2010 : 16:08:35
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| sopater
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Posted - 03/16/2010 : 17:46:07
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decorum: (pronounced:[dih-kawr-uhm, -kohr-])
dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc, the quality or state of being decorous; orderliness; regularity, Usually, decorums. an observance or requirement of polite society.
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| khaz
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Posted - 03/16/2010 : 22:13:15
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Rainbowfish
Re skin picking
The first thing I do of a morning is pick 2 spots on my hair.
Once I had artificial nails put on I could'nt.
Also NOVASONE made a huge difference and they healed in hospital.
Just a thought....hope it helps.
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Posted - 03/17/2010 : 14:07:15
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oxymoron [ok-si-mawr-on, -mohr-] a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
The Living Dead is another example. |
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