Word of The Day

is a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace . It is usually translated "seize the day".

So all, here's a Happy new year 2007 wish from me! Here's the perfect opportunity to Carpe Diem and achieve all your aims for this year! My best wishes.. take care!

in·e·bri·ate /v. ɪnˈibriˌeɪt, ɪˈni-; n., adj. ɪnˈibriɪt, ɪˈni-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[v. in-ee-bree-eyt, i-nee-; n., adj. in-ee-bree-it, i-nee-] verb, -at·ed, -at·ing, noun, adjective –verb (used with object)

1.	to make drunk; intoxicate.

2.	to exhilarate, confuse, or stupefy mentally or emotionally.

–noun

3.	an intoxicated person.

4.	a habitual drunkard.

–adjective

5.	Also, in·e·bri·at·ed. drunk; intoxicated.

First of all.. a pat-pat on sg's back for switching to new blogger!! It makes my job much easier!!


~ Second of all, this sentence that i am gonna make is meant to be both informatory and also uses the word.

- It has been ruled that having s** with an inebriated woman amounts to rape as one's judgement is clouded once one has high levels of liquor in their blood.
I read this in the paper like few days back and didnt know the exact meaning, so posted it here :D


And a very happy new year in advance to all readers!!

[proh-kras-tuh-neyt, pruh-]
Well I suppose human beings are lazy by nature and like procrastinating things. I believe that was also the essence of the X management theory though I am not sure.

Don't remember where I came across this word. It was probably some comment in some blog.

arsy-varsy (AR-see VAR-see) adjective, adverb

- Upside-down, backward, preposterous.

[A facetious rhyming compound of arse (a variant or ass); perhaps
coined after vice versa, from Latin versus, from vertere (to turn).]
Arsy-varsy is a reduplicative like vice versa.

~ Whats the best time to leave an organisation? When everything goes arsy-varsy!
~ Wish i could walk on my hands, it would be fun to see everything arsy-varsy for a change.
~ Recently in the paper, there was an article which said that history was being taught in a totally arsy-varsy manner to the students, due to lack of gumption of a nation to face its past in the eye.

\ih-FAYS\, transitive verb:
1. To cause to disappear by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible.
2. To destroy, as a mental impression; to wipe out; to eliminate completely.
3. To make (oneself) inconspicuous.


Sentence:
It's always difficult to efface bad memories since we indeed do have a tendency to brood about the bad times.

The above sentence is open to debate[:p]
Here's a thought----------- How about making a controversial sentence and then have a discussion on it too???

pu·is·sant –adjective
- powerful; mighty; potent.

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piss·ant –noun

1.	Slang: Vulgar. a person or thing of no value or consequence; a despicable person or thing.

2.	Obsolete. an ant.

–adjective

3.	Slang: Vulgar. insignificant or worthless.

Here's some text i came upon, pissant was word of the day at The Maven's Word of the Day in 1991, March 31st:

I'm a little tangled up here. "Pismire" means "ant," I think, and "pissant," the noun, means one who is insignificant, although I've heard it used more frequently as an adjective, as in "You and your pissant problems." Is there any relationship between the two words, and has the adjectival use of "pissant" become standard?

The two words are indeed closely related; they share one root and their literal meanings are the same.

The older word is pismire, meaning 'an ant', found since the fourteenth century. Most dictionaries still include this as a current term, though it is my belief that it occurs almost exclusively to clue the word ant in crossword puzzles. Be that as it may, pismire is formed from the common vulgar word piss 'urine' and mire, an obsolete word for 'ant' that is ultimately of Scandinavian origin. The surprising initial element refers to what the OED delicately calls "the urinous smell of an anthill" (caused by the formic acid that ants produce) and is paralleled by terms in several other languages that combine words for 'urine' with reference to ants.

The word pissant is pretty much the same thing, but with ant itself in place of mire. It is first recorded in the seventeenth century.

Unlike pismire, pissant is now chiefly used in the figurative sense 'a worthless or insignificant person or thing', found since about the turn of the century. It is also used in comparative phrases such as "drunk as a pissant," in the sense 'extremely intoxicated'.

The adjectival use of pissant to mean 'trivial; contemptible' dates from the 1950s in America and appears to have become common by 1970 or so. It is now widespread. Example: "You are better off without that piss-ant job" (Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (1984)). The use is common, but whether it is "standard" depends on your outlook. I think that the term is still considered somewhat vulgar, and should thus not be considered standard.

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Was gonna add a very funny kissa but the power went off at my place twice already while writing this post (and dumb old UPS also had to betray my trust) so i'm writing this the third time and i just dont feel like typing the whole thing again and again. Maybe some other time.

–adjective
1. making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like: indelible ink.
2. that cannot be eliminated, forgotten, changed, or the like: the indelible memories of war; the indelible influence of a great teacher.


I read this word in lee iacocca's autobiography where he was describing the horrors of the Great Depression. Unfortunately, bad memories are generally indelible i suppose. It is very difficult to forget the bad times.

The posts made by me would not consist of words from word of the day by Dictionary.com, but from other sources. Thus i shall not be as frequent as Mr. SG here as i will be doing my best to come up with interesting words which struck me here and there while passing. Might add an anecdote as to how i came across that word, so memorising the word becomes easier :)

fol·de·rol (fŏl'də-rŏl')
n.

1. Foolishness; nonsense.
2. A trifle; a gewgaw.

1. My everyday activities consist of so much folderol that my friends call me kiddish.

2. As our emotions and relations are the essence of life, at times money seems like nothing but folderol.


This word had been put as one of my google talk buddies as her status- Life's folderol ABC XYZ (ABC XYZ= her name), so it struck me and i found out. I thought it was an interesting word and simple to learn so why not put it up here! :D

adjective:
Polished and smooth in manner; polite, refined, and elegant.

It is important to be urbane in a job interview as mere technical skills are not good enough.

meaning(noun): a store selling hardware

sentence:
During the repairs in the house, all the required things were bought from the ironmongery nearby

adjective:
1. Devoid of or unsusceptible to emotion.
2. Showing no sign of emotion or feeling; expressionless.

As before, he seemed neither happy nor unhappy. Just utterly impassive.

A silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities.


With time I realised that she was nothing but a flibbertigibbet whose incessant chatting nothing but bored me.

\muh-LAYZ; -LEZ\, noun:
1. A vague feeling of discomfort in the body, as at the onset of illness.
2. A general feeling of depression or unease.


Sentence1:
Right before my turn was about to come in the competition, I felt a malaise as I started getting nervous.

Sentence2:
I experienced an emotional malaise as I heard the news of my grandfather's demise.

1. To deviate from what is expected.
2. To take away; to detract; -- usually with 'from'.

transitive verb:
1. To disparage or belittle; to denigrate.

Sentence one:
The results of the exams derogated from what was expected so much that an inquiry into the matter was ordered.

Sentence two:
Derogating someone is always a bad idea as you never know when that very same person might become indispensable!!!