#143393 - 10/27/07 01:41 AM
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aghast • \uh-GAST\ • adjective
: struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked
Example Sentence:
In an effort to impress his date, Adam ordered the most expensive items on the menu, then was aghast when the bill arrived.
Did you know?
If you are aghast, you might look like you've just seen a ghost, or something similarly shocking. "Aghast" traces back to a Middle English verb, "gasten," meaning "to frighten." "Gasten" (which also gave us "ghastly," meaning "terrible or frightening") comes from "gast," a Middle English spelling of the word "ghost." "Gast" also came to be used in English as a verb meaning "to scare." That verb is now obsolete, but its spirit lives on in words spoken by the character Edmund in Shakespeare's King Lear: "gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled."
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#144103 - 11/08/07 01:24 AM
Re: Word of the Day
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mollify • \MAH-luh-fye\ • verb
*1 : to soothe in temper or disposition : appease
2 : to reduce the rigidity of : soften
3 : to reduce in intensity : assuage, temper
Example Sentence:
The clerk tried his best to mollify the irate customer.
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"Mollify," "pacify," "appease," and "placate" all mean "to ease the anger or disturbance of," although each implies a slightly different way of pouring oil on troubled waters. "Pacify" suggests the restoration of a calm or peaceful state, while "appease" implies the quieting of insistent demands by making concessions; you can appease appetites and desires as well as persons. "Placate" is similar to "appease," but it often indicates a more complete transformation of bitterness to goodwill. "Mollify," with its root in Latin "mollis," meaning "soft," implies soothing hurt feelings or anger.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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#144511 - 11/12/07 01:37 AM
Re: Word of the Day
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commove • \kuh-MOOV\ • verb
*1 : to move violently : agitate
2 : to rouse intense feeling in : excite to passion
Example Sentence:
"He who has seen the sea commoved with a great hurricane, thinks of it very differently from him who has seen it only in a calm." (R.L. Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters)
Did you know?
Eighteenth-century English lexicographer Samuel Johnson declared "commove" as being "not in use," but the word had not really disappeared from the language; it was simply, at that time, popular primarily with Scottish writers. The 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer is credited with the first use of "commove," and many writers since have used the word, including Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot. Though not so common today, "commove" does occasionally pop up (to the chagrin of Johnsonians). "Market values tend to commove over time," read one such recent example, which appeared in the February 2007 issue of The Journal of Banking and Finance.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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#144580 - 11/12/07 10:15 PM
Re: Word of the Day
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stoozing n.
The practice of borrowing money from a credit card during the card's introductory no-interest period and then investing that money to earn the interest as a profit.
—stoozer n.
—stooze n.
Example Citations:
The essence is simple: if credit card companies will lend money at 0%, you can borrow it and then save it at a high interest rate so you're earning money on cash they have lent you for free. My fondest stoozing memory is being lent thousands of pounds on Egg's credit card only to shove it into Egg's savings account, so it paid me hundreds of pounds in interest on its own money.
The largest stooze I've heard of was £ 80,000 of debt put into an offset mortgage, netting that stoozer nearly £ 5,000 a year in reduced interest payments. ...
Card providers have introduced balance-transfer fees when debts are shifted to interest-free offers, but cards offering 0% on purchases escape the fees, making them the core equipment for building your "stooze-pot".
—Martin Lewis, "Get £ 1,200 of free money on your plastic," Sunday Times, May 13, 2007
"Stooze" is derived from the nickname of an online financial adviser who developed the practice of taking advantage of the introductory interest-free period offered by credit card companies to borrow money for investing profitably elsewhere.
—Ruth Wajnryb, "The explosion of the English tongue," Sydney Morning Herald, February 24, 2007
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#144649 - 11/15/07 01:29 AM
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denegation • \den-ih-GAY-shun\ • noun
: denial
Example Sentence:
"The defendant's actions," the lawyer argued, "led to the denegation of my client's rights as a citizen."
Did you know?
Even if we didn't provide you with a definition, you might guess the meaning of "denegation" from the "negation" part. Both words are ultimately derived from the Latin verb "negare," meaning "to deny" or "to say no," and both first arrived in English in the 15th century. "Negare" is also the source of our "abnegation" ("self-denial"), "negate" ("to deny the truth of"), and "renegade" (which originally referred to someone who leaves, and therefore denies, a religious faith). Even "deny" and "denial" are "negare" descendants. Like "denegation," they came to us from "negare" by way of the Latin "denegare," which also means "to deny."
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