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Word of the Day
- Thread starter DD
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I have a little confession to make, DD. Whenever you post a word that I can't figure out how to install into a sentence (even with the definition), I google "use XXX in a sentence." I admit it!!!
I wouldn't have said anything but today's word came with a lovely note, from Han-Yu's vocabulary:
Example sentence:
"To summarize the plot in a 'novel of suspense' is usually to deny...the pleasures hidden for the reader's delectation and surprise, so I won't go into detail." (Nicholas Meyer, The New York Times Book Review, January 10, 1988)
Did you know?
"Pleasure," "delight," and "enjoyment" are all synonyms and all signify the agreeable emotion accompanying the possession or expectation of what is good or greatly desired. Why then, use "delectation," that not-so-familiar synonym? Because, as with all synonym groups, each word has its own subtle distinctions.
"Pleasure" stresses satisfaction or gratification of the senses. "Delight" adds the idea of liveliness or obviousness in that satisfaction, often less enduring than pleasure. "Enjoyment" suggests a wide range of deep pleasure, from merely transient though complete gratification to deep-seated happiness.
"Delectation" (which is from the Latin word for "delight") suggests a reaction to pleasurable experience consciously sought or provided - more than all the others, it connotes mere amusement or diversion.
http://www.bluerabbitstudio.com/vocab-may2001.html
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
Did anyone else read that as "A B C D arian"? :rofl:
DD
SoWal Expert
Miss Kitty
Meow
Mermy....
abecedarian
\ay-bee-see-DAIR-ee-uhn\ , noun:
1.
One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a beginner.
2.
One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
adjective: 1.
Pertaining to the letters of the alphabet.
2.
Arranged alphabetically.
3.
Rudimentary; elementary.
why, yes I did.
Me, three.
I have been both #1 and #2 under nouns.
DD
SoWal Expert
carom
\KAIR-uhm\ , noun:
1.
A rebound following a collision; a glancing off.
2.
A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls on the table.
intransitive verb: 1.
To strike and rebound; to glance.
2.
To make a carom.
transitive verb: 1.
To make (an object) bounce off something; to cause to carom.
\KAIR-uhm\ , noun:
1.
A rebound following a collision; a glancing off.
2.
A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls on the table.
intransitive verb: 1.
To strike and rebound; to glance.
2.
To make a carom.
transitive verb: 1.
To make (an object) bounce off something; to cause to carom.
