Word of the Day...

[Haunted]

threnody \THREN-uh-dee\, noun:

A poem, speech, or song of lamentation, esp. for the dead; dirge; funeral song.

It was hugely difficult to sing, but it is painfully direct emotionally, and seemed a sort of threnody for Stephen and for Hugh and for Aziz and for a whole generation who had died needlessly young.
-- Simon Callow, "Stephen Oliver - In memory of a brief but brilliant career", The Independent, May 2010

The dominant note in Bryant is, certainly, threnody; but it is threnody without gloom. He had inherited from his Puritan ancestors the faith that illumines life and looks through death, and it never fails him.
-- Chueton Collins, "Poetry and Poets in America", The North American review, 1904

The source of threnody is the Greek thrēnōidÃ*a, where thrēnōs is "lamentation" and ōid is "song." (Also the root of ode.)

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hunky dory \HUHNG-kee-DOHR-ee\, adjective:

About as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.

In Greensboro we are continuing along as if everything is hunky dory and, according to the proposed budget, Greensboro will be taking on $70 million in new debt in the next two years.
-- John Hammer, "City Budget Designed To Generate Outcry", Greensboro Rhino Times

He rounded the curve splendidly, hunky dory. He had broken himself of the habit of saying "hunky dory," it was an ugly expression.
-- Lion Feuchtwanger, Ruth Gruber, The Oppermanns

Hunky dory is an American coinage from the late 1800s. The source is posited to be an adaptation of New York City slang or perhaps a reference to a street in Japan named Honcho dori, known as a destination for sailors on shore leave.

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evanescence \ev-uh-NES-ens\, noun:

1. A gradual disappearance.
2. The state of becoming imperceptible.

This is one of the most beautiful circumstances connected with water surface, for by these means a variety of color and a grace and evanescence are introduced in the reflection otherwise impossible.
-- John Ruskin, The Works of John Ruskin: Modern painters, v.1-5

But this was an evanescence, and quickly repented of, as it were, by an immitigable look, pinching and shriveling the visage into the momentary semblance of a wrinkled walnut.
-- Herman Melville, Billy Budd, sailor: (an inside narrative)

Evanescence is from Latin evanescere, "to vanish," from e-, "from, out of" + vanescere, "to disappear," from vanus, "empty."

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philogyny \fi-LOJ-uh-nee\, noun:

Love of or liking for women (opposite of misogyny.)

We will, therefore, draw a curtain over this scene, from that philogyny which is in us, and proceed to matters which, instead of dishonouring the human species, will greatly raise and ennoble it.
-- Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great

To me, it is immaterial if misogyny or philogyny or whatever was in the writer's mind. It's the fact of censorship and, what is truly more infuriating, at the instigation of a cleric, that alarms me.
-- Giordiano Bruno, "Wrong move, Mr Rector, sir," Malta Independent, November 2009

Philogyny combines two Greek roots: philo, "love," and gyn, "woman."

[MrZetakappa]

[QUOTE = Haunted ; 300.184 ] Che bella idea per un thread ! Cercherò di trasmettere la nuova parola ricevo ogni giorno. ![/ QUOTE]
ciao Hunted grazie x il messaggio di benvenuto e un saluto a tutti..mi sono iscritto ieri e ho spedito qualche messaggio ma non sono sicuro sia arrivato magari fammi la gentilezza di dirmi se questo è arrivato,ciao buona giornata

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fulgurate \FUHL-gyuh-reyt\, verb:

1. To flash or dart like lightning.
2. Medicine. To destroy (esp. an abnormal growth) by electricity.

Their eyes fulgurate strangely. They have the look of executioners, or the look of eunuchs.
-- Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of Saint Anthony

She flashed a glance at him, prepared to fulgurate, but his clean-shaven, dreamy face wore an expression of mere weariness with which she could not quarrel.
-- Marmaduke William Pickthall, Enid: a novel

The Latin fulgurāre, "to flash or lighten," is the ancestor of fulgurate.

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nitid \NIT-id\, adjective:

Bright; lustrous.

Intolerably, I dreamt of an exiguous and nitid labyrinth: in the center was a water jar; my hands almost touched it, my eyes could see it, but so intricate and perplexed were the curves that I knew I would die before reaching it.
-- Jorge Luis Borges, The Immortal

"What!" exclaimed Sir Norfolk, almost shuddering at the inadvertence he had committed; "a waiting-man in such costly and nitid attire."
-- William Harrison Ainsworth, The Miser's Daughter

Nitid is related to the Latin nitidus, "glistening."

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busticate \BUHS-ti-keyt\, verb:

To break into pieces.

We all know that there is nothing so easy to macerate, percolate, absquatulate and totally busticate as the Ten Commandments.
-- The Pharmaceutical Era (newspaper), 1908.

A security contest is being held by Google to try and busticate their native client code.
-- Dr. Raid (Blog pseudonym), "Google Native Client security contest," Graduated Script Kiddie blog, March, 2009.

Busticate came into existence in the Northern United States during the 19th Century, as the common verb bust became wedded to the Latin root -icate. This phenomenon occurred across the U.S.; another example is the Southern coinage argufy.

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ar·gu·fy (ärˈgyə-fīˌ)

verb ar·gu·fied, ar·gu·fy·ing, ar·gu·fies Chiefly Southern U.S.

verb, transitive

To dispute (a point).

verb, intransitive

To argue aimlessly; wrangle. See Regional Note at absquatulate.

Related Forms:
•argufier arˈgu·fiˌer noun

(Well, I'll be danged!!)

[Anni M]

One of my faves: Circumlocution:
cir·cum·lo·cu·tion
NOUN:The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
Evasion in speech or writing.
A roundabout expression.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English circumlocucioun, from Latin circumloc-t-i, circumloc-ti-n-, from circumloc-tus, past participle of circumloqu : circum-, circum- + loqu, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots