Post by Mr. Wells on Oct 29, 2007 15:57:00 GMT -5
1. sibilance - adj.- hissing
"A low voice, with a slight snakelike sibilance to it."
2. taciturn - adj.- habitually untalkative
"The Ranger, taciturn as ever, glanced at Pauline, then the Baron, and replied in as few words as possible, 'Yes, my lord.' "
3. emulate - v -To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation. "I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us." Maynard J. Keenan, vocalist of Tool and A Perfect Circle
4. palatable - adj. Acceptable in taste; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten. Acceptable or agreeable to the mind of sensibilities. "There was a palatable solution to the problem."
5. castigate - v.- To inflict severe punishment on; to criticize severely
"The popular students castigated the antisocial elitist for knowing too much on the subject of technology."
6. exacerbate - v. - To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate
"It was a speech that exacerbated racial tensions."
7. stratify - v. - to divide or arrange into classes, castes, or social strata
"The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal." Dorothy Allison
8. diazeugma - n. - The figure by which a single subject governs several verbs or verbal constructions
"The Romans destroyed Numantia, razed Carthage, obliterated Corinth, overthrew Fregellae."
9. invective - n. - insulting or abusive language
"To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support -- to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run." John F. Kennedy, from his Inaugural Address
10. altruism - n - unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others "I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."
Aneurin Bevan
"A low voice, with a slight snakelike sibilance to it."
2. taciturn - adj.- habitually untalkative
"The Ranger, taciturn as ever, glanced at Pauline, then the Baron, and replied in as few words as possible, 'Yes, my lord.' "
3. emulate - v -To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation. "I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us." Maynard J. Keenan, vocalist of Tool and A Perfect Circle
4. palatable - adj. Acceptable in taste; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten. Acceptable or agreeable to the mind of sensibilities. "There was a palatable solution to the problem."
5. castigate - v.- To inflict severe punishment on; to criticize severely
"The popular students castigated the antisocial elitist for knowing too much on the subject of technology."
6. exacerbate - v. - To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate
"It was a speech that exacerbated racial tensions."
7. stratify - v. - to divide or arrange into classes, castes, or social strata
"The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal." Dorothy Allison
8. diazeugma - n. - The figure by which a single subject governs several verbs or verbal constructions
"The Romans destroyed Numantia, razed Carthage, obliterated Corinth, overthrew Fregellae."
9. invective - n. - insulting or abusive language
"To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support -- to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run." John F. Kennedy, from his Inaugural Address
10. altruism - n - unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others "I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."
Aneurin Bevan