Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Blog will live again
Yeah, I kind of lost interest in this. But I'm going to use it for its original intended purpose again, which was to write down words I learn in books I read, once I look them up. I am going to be reading Holmes first.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Sanctimonious
Definitions:
Princeton says:
(excessively or hypocritically pious) "a sickening sanctimonious smile"
Webster says:
1
: hypocritically pious or devout <a sanctimonious moralist><the king's sanctimonious rebuke — G. B. Shaw>
2
obsolete : possessing sanctity : holy
— sanc·ti·mo·nious·ly adverb
— sanc·ti·mo·nious·ness noun
My input:
Pronunciation: Sanc as in sanctuary. Ti as in tit, or Ti mothy. Mon sounds like moan, rhymes with phone. I rhymes with tree. Ous sounds the same as it does in glorious.
Webster audio
Synonyms:
holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, self-righteous
Thoughts:
I find it interesting that the word was used to mean close to the opposite of what it does now. Lesss confusing than constellate, anyway.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Elide
Foreword:
For some reason when I saw this word, I thought of the part of Firework in this video at 0:40
There's also another song that reminds me of this word... but I can't remember atm. (at the moment)
Definitions:
Princeton says:
(leave or strike out) "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
Webster says:
transitive verb
1
a : to suppress or alter (as a vowel or syllable) by elisionb : to strike out (as a written word)
2
a : to leave out of consideration : omit
b : curtail, abridge
My input:
I'll probably use this as a substitute for omit.
Pronunciation: El sounds like ill, rhymes with mill, fill. Ide rhymes with slide, sounds like lied.
Webster audio
Synonyms:
Princeton has none, so I assume their definition has a nuance that omit does not.
Ambisinister, Ambisinistrous
Foreword:
Something different for the first word today.
This word... I don't know if it's an official one! I can't find it on webster or princeton. It was on dictionary.com though. I don't get why that would be the case. I kind of wonder if it's a troll that put this up! Well, new words are always being made.
Definitions:
–adjective
clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
Pronunciation: Am as in... am, amber. Bi as in Ambidextrous, blister (minus the l), Sinister sounds like sinister. Sin as in sin, sounds like cin in Cincinnati. Ister rhymes with sister, blister (I have one :p)
Synonyms:
none really, but clumsy could be one.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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