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Word of the day

#242
tastybasslines said:
Haha. I was just posting a quote that my dad told me that seems like a reasonable excuse to look at other women.
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Oh tasty, your Dad didn't tell you to be SURREPTITIOUS?:rollno: No "looking"

1: done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine
2: acting or doing something clandestinely : stealthy <a surreptitious glance>

#2 - I instructed my sons to never be caught looking (active), just let "them" fall within your line of sight so it is merely seeing (passive). :cool: Sunglasses help a lot :D
 
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#243
Todays word is:

Saudade

It is a Portuguese word that is translated roughly as "yearning" . You can be sad and happy at the same time. Almost like life itself. I am so joyful that I get to live with my wife and still I am sad that I know some day it has to end. There are places, people and even pets that I were once part of my life but are no longer. I have great joy remembering them and still sadness that they are gone.

I found this online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade


Saudade was once described as "the love that remains" after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone (e.g., one's children, parents, sibling, grandparents, friends, pets) or something (e.g., places, things one used to do in childhood, or other activities performed in the past) that should be there in a particular moment is missing, and the individual feels this absence. It brings sad and happy feelings all together, sadness for missing and happiness for having experienced the feeling.
 
#246
Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism. Bioluminescence occurs widely in marine vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as in some fungi, microorganisms and terrestrial invertebrates. Some symbiotic organisms carried within larger organisms produce light


Now try explaining this to your four year old. And I don't mean just saying that it glows. I think I need to go lay down.
 
#247
My word for today is:

egocentric

e·go·cen·tric [ee-goh-sen-trik, eg-oh-]
adjective
1.having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things: an egocentric philosophy that ignores social causes.
2.having little or no regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than one's own; self-centered: an egocentric person; egocentric demands upon the time and patience of others.
noun
3.an egocentric person.

Just a reminder to myself that I am not the center of the universe. It is always a better day when I keep that in mind.
 
#250
My word today is:

Lament

la·ment
/ləˈmɛnt/
verb (used with object)
1.
to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
2.
to mourn for or over.
verb (used without object)
3.
to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret.
4.
to mourn deeply.
noun
5.
an Link Removed of grief or sorrow.
6.
a formal expression of sorrow or mourning, especially in verse or song; an elegy or dirge.

That is what my wife was doing when I left the house this morning.
 
#255
Folderol
— n
1. a showy but worthless trifle
2. foolish nonsense
3. a nonsensical refrain in old songs
falderol , falderol or folderol
— n
folderol , falderol or folderol
— n

folderol (ˈfɒldəˌrɒl)
— n
a variant of Link Removed

The folderol being spouted occasionally, on TB, is often amusing.
 

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