The Word of the Day Thread
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Learned this word today:
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It's not every day I bother to learn a new word, but today was such a day.
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@raceprouk said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Learned this word today:
Not to be confused with 'mendicant':
Filed Under: I can see that!
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Thank you Inspirobot.
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www.vocabulary.com said in The Word of the Day Thread:
your mother might say that you look wan
While listening to that hip new rock 'n' roll act Elvis Presley, I bet
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@yamikuronue said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Radical?
Based on the clue this is the most likely one.
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This word is well-known. I just like it. (I could say the same about "whimsical")
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@raceprouk Hitlerian
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Never knew before what the actual name for this was:
(Dictionary definitions are a little too generic for this specific and interesting usage.) Pronounced [moo-lahzh].
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@boner the first one I can remember getting wrong was Phoebe (I think that's a character from the Magic School Bus books for tiny babies).
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in medical parlance, “efficacy” and “effectiveness” mean different things, and it’s a nuance that’s quite significant. Efficacy is a narrower definition that means how well something works in an ideal or controlled setting, such as a clinical trial. Effectiveness describes how well it works under “real-world” conditions. Effectiveness, for example, takes into consideration how easy a drug is to use, and potential side effects, whereas efficacy measures only how well it produces the desired result.
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@zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@accalia said in The Quixotic Ideas Thread:
OOH! i know this! That would be the number four. i love how savoury it is with those bright overtones of a C major chord and the subtle hint of petrichor.
Where's the text in the onebox?
Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil.
Pet-tree-core
Mmmm I do love that scent...
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@masonwheeler said in The Word of the Day Thread:
OK, here's one for all the logophiles out there:
I'm looking for a word that begins with R, that means either "awesome" or "improved", and isn't some obscure thing a light-year beyond the average person's vocabulary.
Anyone got any ideas?
Resplendent?
Edit: by @Jaloopa
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
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@jaloopa said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Autoantonym: a word that has two opposite meanings
Come on, Wikipedia! "Flammable" and "inflammable" are two apparently opposite words that have the same meaning, not one word with opposite meanings!
The text of the article does much better, listing (and explaining) words like "cleave", "fast", and "table [a bill]".
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See also: solicitor.
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early 15c., "to disturb, trouble," from Middle French soliciter (14c.), from Latin sollicitare "to disturb, rouse, trouble, harass; stimulate, provoke," from sollicitus "agitated," from sollus "whole, entire" + citus "aroused," past participle of ciere "shake, excite, set in motion" (see cite). Related: Solicited; soliciting.
Meaning "entreat, petition" is from 1520s. Meaning "to further (business affairs)" evolved mid-15c. from Middle French sense of "manage affairs." The sexual sense (often in reference to prostitutes) is attested from 1710, probably from a merger of the business sense and an earlier sense of "to court or beg the favor of" (a woman), attested from 1590s.
Which is easy to confuse with
1660s, from Latin salax (genitive salacis) "lustful," probably originally "fond of leaping," as in a male animal leaping on a female in sexual advances, from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Earliest form of the word in English is salacity (c. 1600). Related: Salaciously; salaciousness.
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In memory of my dear colleague Simon Poulding:
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@mikael_svahnberg said in Markdown: Data or stfu:
invectives
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noun
- (often initial capital letter) a chicken of any of several varieties or breeds characterized by very small size.
- a small and feisty or quarrelsome person.
adjective
3. diminutive; tiny:
bantam editions of the classics.
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@zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
noun
- (often initial capital letter) a chicken of any of several varieties or breeds characterized by very small size.
- a small and feisty or quarrelsome person.
adjective
3. diminutive; tiny:
bantam editions of the classics.
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@masonwheeler said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
noun
- (often initial capital letter) a chicken of any of several varieties or breeds characterized by very small size.
- a small and feisty or quarrelsome person.
adjective
3. diminutive; tiny:
bantam editions of the classics.
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'Dotage' is "a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness"
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Noun
compersion (uncountable)- The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.
- The feeling of joy associated with seeing a loved one love another; contrasted with jealousy.
I'm not too surprised that this neologism isn't in the mainstream dictionaries yet, and I suspect it never will be because it is mostly associated with polyamory (it was specifically coined because there was no term meaning 'the opposite of jealousy' already in use; the top definition is a later generalization of the idea as an antonym to schadenfreude). I am equally unsurprised that Urban Dictionary focuses solely on that aspect of it, though the #1 entry is a lot more tactful about it than I might have anticipated.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Compersion
A feeling of joy when a loved one invests in and takes pleasure from another romantic or sexual relationship.
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