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Author Topic: New Word Of The Day Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-09-2006 05:50 AM                        Rated G ineffable \in-EF-uh-buhl\, adjective: 1. Incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable. 2. Not to be uttered; taboo. . . . the tension inherent in human language when it attempts to relate the ineffable, see the invisible, understand the incomprehensible. --Jeffrey Burton Russell, A History of Heaven Pope John Paul II notes that people are drawn to religion to answer the really big questions--for example, "What is the ultimate ineffable mystery which is the origin and destiny of our existence?" --William A. Sherden, The Fortune Sellers One cannot blame them very much; explaining the ineffable is difficult. --Edward O. Wilson, "The Biological Basis of Morality," The Atlantic, April 1998 Ineffable is from Latin ineffabilis, from in-, "not" + effabilis, "utterable," from effari, "to utter," from ex-, "out" + fari, "to speak."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-10-2006 05:50 AM                        Rated G dubiety \doo-BY-uh-tee; dyoo-\, noun: 1. The condition or quality of being doubtful or skeptical. 2. A matter of doubt Kennedy and O'Connor may think that Title 3 has been violated, but O'Connor and the chief justice are not convinced that the Supreme Court was meant to litigate challenges under that federal statute, and their dubiety here is shared by Justices Scalia and Souter. --Hadley Arkes, "A Morning at the Court," National Review, December 2, 2000 Despite a lack of forensic evidence, dubiety among the police themselves and inaccuracies in Raymond's confession, he was finally found guilty. --Maggie Barry, "I've been a screen for the person who killed Pamela," The Mirror, August 10, 2002 Here, the historical evidence would seem to be tricky but free from all dubieties. --Paul Taylor, "A mechanical science lesson," Independent, November 21, 2001 I want every inconsistency, every dubiety, every ambiguity left in. --David Maclean, quoted in David Hencke, "Tories plot hunt bill dirty tricks," The Guardian, January 17, 2001 Dubiety is from Late Latin dubietas, from Latin dubius, "doubtful, uncertain."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-11-2006 07:20 AM                        Rated G pugilist \PYOO-juh-list\, noun: One who fights with the fists; especially, a professional prize fighter; a boxer. I had escaped my years as a pugilist with few of the badges that gave fellow-veterans of the ring the appearance of ruffians--missing eyes, mashed noses, or suchlike disfigurements--and had no more to show for my beatings than some small scars about my face and a nose that bore only the mild bumps and jagged edges that come with several breakings. --David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper Could it be that Podhoretz -- one of the famously embattled members of the New York intellectual world, a political pugilist who over the course of his life has perfected his roundhouse right -- is going soft? --Joseph Dorman, "Only in America," review of My Love Affair With America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative, by Norman Podhoretz, New York Times, July 16, 2000 Pugilist comes from Latin pugil, "a boxer," connected with pugnus, "a fist." The adjective form is pugilistic. Pugilism is another term for the sport of boxing.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-12-2006 06:49 AM                        Rated G renascent \rih-NAS-uhnt\, adjective: Springing or rising again into being; showing renewed vigor. Their goal: to give voters in the June presidential elections a realistic choice between the rough-and-tumble reforms of President Boris Yeltsin and the Soviet-era nostalgia of Gennadi Zyuganov, leader of the renascent Russian Communist Party. --James O. Jackson, "Can Opposites Attract?" Time, May 13, 1996 Where are the new ideas upon which a renascent Toryism can build? --David Aaronovitch, "There's no setting for Hague's Tories at the nation's kitchen table," Independent, March 11, 1999 Rabbinical students saw themselves at the center of a renascent American Judaism, pioneers of a nationwide -- no, worldwide -- Jewish faith rooted in the best of the past and vigorous with contemporary innovations. --Chaim Potok, "Legitimate Voyeurism," Forward, November 4, 1994 Heading the pack of institutional investors were dedicated "emerging-market funds", set up specifically to reap high returns in renascent stock and bond markets. --"The miracle unmasked," The Economist, December 9, 1995 Renascent comes from Latin renascens, present participle of renasci, "to be born again," from re-, "again" + nasci, "to be born."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-13-2006 07:56 AM                        Rated G sesquipedalian \ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn\, adjective: 1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words. 2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables. noun: A long word. As a sesquipedalian stylist, he can throw a word like 'eponymous" into a sentence without missing a beat. --Campbell, Patty, "The sand in the oyster," The Horn Book Magazine, May 15, 1996 Plus he has a weakness for what we can mischievously call sesquipedalian excess: Look out for such terms as "epiphenomenal," "diegetic" and "proprioceptive." --Jabari Asim, "Reel Pioneer," Washington Post, November 19, 2000 They walk and speak with disdain for common folk, and never miss a chance to belittle the crowd in sesquipedalian put-downs or to declare that their raucous and uncouth behavior calls for nothing less than a letter to the Times, to inform proper Englishmen of the deplorable state of manners in the Colonies. --William C. Martin, "Friday Night in the Coliseum," The Atlantic, March 1972 . . . her eccentric family's addiction to sesquipedalians (that big word for "big words"), and her furtive passion for flossy mail-order-catalog prose. --David Browne, "Books/The Week," Entertainment Weekly, October 23, 1998 Sesquipedalian comes from Latin sesquipedalis, "a foot and a half long, hence inordinately long," from sesqui, "one half more, half as much again" + pes, ped-, "a foot."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-14-2006 07:02 AM                        Rated G encumbrance \en-KUHM-brun(t)s\, noun: 1. A burden, impediment, or hindrance. 2. A lien, mortgage, or other financial claim against a property. As Prince of Wales, George V had himself taken his wife on several foreign or imperial tours, without the encumbrance of their young children. --Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II He . . . will have to overcome the encumbrance of space gloves to reattach electrical cables and install a hatch. --"Mir Cosmonaut's Heart Ills Cast Doubt on Repair Effort," New York Times, July 15, 1997 Liberated from the encumbrances of Washington, the editor and his creation were free to embark on the happiest period of their history. --Edward L. Widmer, Young America But she knew that each family needed a son to inherit the property and encumbrances and to carry on the name for at least one more generation. --Annabel Davis-Goff, The Dower House Encumbrance is from Old French encombrance, from encombrer, "to block up," from en-, "in" (here used intensively) + combre, "dam, weir, hence hindrance."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-15-2006 05:52 AM                        Rated G pugnacious \puhg-NAY-shuhs\, adjective: Inclined to fight; combative; quarrelsome. Roberto's pugnacious grandmother lived across the meadow and would yell threats and curses helplessly from her balcony. --Tag Gallagher, The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini The idea that he was truculent or pugnacious, that he went about with a chip on his shoulder, that he loved fighting for the sake of fighting, was, however, a mistake. --William Roscoe Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography Pugnacious comes from Latin pugnare, "to fight," from pugnus, "fist."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-16-2006 06:29 AM                        Rated G capricious \kuh-PRISH-us; -PREE-shus\, adjective: Apt to change suddenly; whimsical; changeable. Molly was a capricious woman. Her moods were unpredictable, her anger petty and vicious. --Rand Roberts and James Olson, John Wayne: American The Countess was a capricious minx, by turns seductive and aloof. --Saul David, Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency Mathematics is logical; people are erratic, capricious, and barely comprehensible. --Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World Capricious comes, via French, from Italian capriccio, "a shivering, a shudder," finally (influenced by Italian capra, goat) "a whim," from capo, "head" (from Latin caput) + riccio, "hedgehog" (from Latin ericius).  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-17-2006 07:24 AM                        Rated G comity \KOM-uh-tee\, noun: A state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect, especially between or among nations or people; civility. comity of nations, noun: 1. The courteous recognition by one nation of the laws and institutions of another. 2. The group of nations observing international comity. In Athens last week, E.U. leaders offered a picture of comity as they formally signed accession treaties with 10 new members. --James Graff, "Can France Put a Cork In It?" Time Europe, April 28, 2003 Despite the image of civil-military comity during World War II, there were many differences between Franklin Roosevelt and his military advisers. --Mackubin Thomas Owens, "Sniping," National Review, April 2, 2003 Short-term initiatives in 1919 became longer-term strategies for bringing the two pariahs, Germany and Russia, into the comity of nations. --Kenneth O. Morgan, "Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: from Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940," English Historical Review, June 2002 Everyone hopes that Saddam Hussein will honour his agreement with Kofi Annan and that Iraq will be received back into the comity of nations. --Marrack Goulding, "A wider role for the UN," New Statesman, March 13, 1998 Comity is from Latin comitas, from comis, "courteous  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-18-2006 10:45 AM                        Ratyed G quondam \KWAHN-duhm; KWAHN-dam\, adjective: Having been formerly; former; sometime. A quondam flower child, she spent seven years at the Royal College of Art, before becoming a lecturer at Edinburgh School of Art. --"Interview: Cool, calm collector," Independent, December 13, 1997 For the unregenerate "peasant" . . . had gone there with the successful glass distributor, shrewd investor, versatile talker, and quondam bon vivant whose motto was "The best is good enough for me." --Ted Solotaroff, Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir There was an exception to this in the form of Mrs Edna Parsons, a formidable Englishwoman who had once been the Prince's nanny and now served as proctor, supervising his behaviour. She was about fifty and true to her quondam profession, she could be quite strict. --David Freeman, One of Us Quondam comes from the Latin quondam, "formerly," from quom, "when."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-19-2006 06:40 AM                        Rated G ergo \UR-go; AIR-\, adverb: Therefore; consequently. The general observation has always been: Dogs form packs; the leader of the pack is the strongest, wisest, and largest individual; a human being among dogs fits that description; ergo we are the leader of any dog pack. --Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs Armani isn't interested in fashion that moves on (ergo he isn't interested in fashion). --Sinead Lynch, "The waist land," Times (London), October 9, 2000 People who do not suffer fools gladly, gladly suffer flatterers. (Ergo, flatterers are no fools.) --Richard Stengel, You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery Ergo is from Latin ergo, consequently, therefore.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-20-2006 08:33 AM                        Rated G susurration \soo-suh-RAY-shun\, noun: A whispering sound; a soft murmur. . . . the soft susurration of the wind through a stand of whistling thorn. --Ann Jones, "Kenya on horseback," Town & Country, August 1, 1994 Across the road I can make out the grassy park that runs along the sand and hear, in the distance, the steady susurration of the Atlantic Ocean. --Michael Dirda, "Excursions," Washington Post, January 2, 2000 There was the predictable noise of offence being taken on the Conservative side of the House. But it was low and muted, a mild susurration in the backwoods rather than an outraged gust of anger. --Andrew Marr, "Making a prime minister of the President," Independent, March 30, 1994 Susurration is from Late Latin susurratio, from Latin susurrare, "to whisper, to mutter," from susurrus, "a whispering, a muttering."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-21-2006 08:44 AM                        Rated G irrefragable \ih-REF-ruh-guh-buhl\, adjective: Impossible to refute; incontestable; undeniable; as, an irrefragable argument; irrefragable evidence. I had the most irrefragable evidence of the absolute truth and soundness of the principle upon which my invention was based. --Sir Henry Bessemer, Autobiography On June 4, the Citizen featured an interview with the Joneses' lawyer, R. S. Newcombe, who insisted that at the pending manslaughter trial he would bring "positive, absolute, irrefragable proof from . . . the most eminent scientists in the world" to show that both the Bates and Hunt operations were necessary and that no surgeon could have saved their lives. --Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct Unbecoming a Woman Irrefragable derives from Late Latin irrefragabilis, from Latin in-, "not" + refragari, "to oppose."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-22-2006 10:55 AM                        Rated G tutelage \TOO-tuhl-ij; TYOO-\, noun: 1. The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection. 2. The state of being under a guardian or tutor. 3. Instruction, especially individual instruction accompanied by close attention and guidance. But he was not yet free of his father's legal tutelage and had still to decide on a career. --Roland Huntford, Nansen: The Explorer as Hero This was the Puerto Rico that the United States invaded on July 25, 1898--a country that wanted political, economic, and social justice, but not colonial tutelage, however well meant. --Jose Trias Monge, Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World Many years under my grandfather's tutelage had made me the best calligrapher in the entire school. --Da Chen, Colors of the Mountain Under her tutelage he picks up not only Greek but Hebrew, Arabic and Japanese before moving on to the rest of the major spoken languages and a slew of minor ones. --Myla Goldberg, "Paternity Suitor," New York Times, October 15, 2000 Tutelage is from Latin tutela, "protection; guardian" (from the past participle of tueri, "to watch, to guard") + the suffix -age.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-23-2006 06:59 AM                        Rated G incommunicado \in-kuh-myoo-nuh-KAH-doh\, adverb or adjective: Without the means or right to communicate. Western diplomats in Cuba said yesterday that the fact that the six have been held incommunicado for so long suggests that the Cubans fear they pose a security threat. --Daniel McGrory, "Cuba to explain why it is holding six Britons," Times (London), October 25, 2000 This was Morrison's last despatch. Shortly after it was sent, the Boxers cut the telegraph line. Peking was not only besieged, but incommunicado. --Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume One, 1900-1933 They went underground, they sought an underworld of codes and shadows: incognito, incommunicado, and quietly dissident. --Martin Amis, "Survivors of the Cold War," New York Times, October 5, 1997 [H]e was held incommunicado for 72 hours, his phone lines cut. --Joseph Finder, "By Any Other Name," New York Times, June 9, 1996 Incommunicado comes from Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar, "to cut off," from in- (from Latin) + comunicar, "to communicate," from Latin communicare, from communis, "common."  |  IP: Logged

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