We Are Awesome discussion

Hey everyone.
i want everyone to participate in this..atleast try ur best to make an appearance:D
okay,so what u have to do is that,everyday one of us is gonna write a word with its meaning and we are gonna try our best to use it in a sentence as many times as possible...This will help improving our vocabulary.
it may sound stupid but i think it will be fun:D

like i will start,

The word of the day is:-

Alacrity
Meaning:liveliness and eagerness

Yay awesome idea. Need to broaden my vocabulary for school and reading purposes.

:)thanks

So whats today word?? Its a bit weird when your day is my night! LOL!

every member will give a word each day so today is ur day bree.give us one:)

Give me a sec plz! This is soo much pressure to pick one word

Supercalafragilisticexpialadocious

1. The biggest word I ever heard.

2. A word that saved my achin' nose.

3. Even though the sound of it is something quite atroicious, if you say it loud enough you'll even sound precocious

4. Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle Aye.

I was afraid to speak when I was just a lad, my father gave my nose a tweek and told me I was bad. But then one day I learned a word that saved my achin' nose - Supercalafragilisticexpialadocious!!!!!



p.s This is out of Mary Poppins!

*claps and applauses* well done!

Thank you! Thank you! *taking a bow*

hey girl,the words should be easy ones:)
how will i learn this one?*facepalms*

Sorry... I was trying to top your word but if you look it up on Youtube it should show a scene out of the actual movie its from!

I can never look at that word and not have the song playing in my head...

well,give us a word:)anyone:)

Latibule:
- A hiding place, of safety and comfort

I love that word!

thanks laura:)
good effort bree:)!

Lachrymose -- tending to cause tears.
Here's an example using "Lachrymose" in one of my poems.

    Lachrymose

Hurrying away from a shiver
she made me feel so cold in insults,
frigid when I rested morose in a sulk

Lying on ice is a chilly bump.

I'm warm when I'm walking
though a storm is stalking, but if
I rest a moment I'll be cold

Lachrymose skies hover
since she threw me out cold
without my umbrella or razor

A storm is stalking me in her name;
I have no umbrella for shame, no

it's a shame she never knew me
never knew how poor I was
how rich

I gave her all the grandiose she wanted:
the sunrise, the sunset, the expensive flowers
but she could not embrace a pauper who
might write a frozen poem to be
intentionally defrosted and served
growing lachrymal joy and flowers afield

Extravasate -- let or force out (a fluid, especially blood) from the vessel that naturally contains it into the surrounding area.

I like writing in first person as a narrator, but it can get confusing sometimes so I sometimes use pseudonyms to give the female point-of-view as the "writer" of the poem even though I'm a male.
Zawmb'yee Nuje is a character in one of my books. Here is one of her poems:

Extravasate
by "Zawmb'yee Nuje”

A bouquet of you has arrived and
you make me gush and blush
and dance across the world. I am

a spendthrift of sanguine love who will
extravasate the rose petals into the wind
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Here is the noun form:

Extravasation In the Field
by "Zawmb'yee"

Whenever fields of day are parched,
the nightly river flows for me
and pleases all my fantasies

In day
my sheep are gone and all
my parchments written.

But there’s a river in my dreams
and I do see
my captain drenched, though

All my fields are barren now
I will dig my trenches.

By day I build an irrigation ditch
and thirst for him to fill it

He’ll be my only river guest
who has me on his manifest.

If tomorrow he will be with me
nightly river flow for me

for if I wake in flooded fields
in gush of conversation

his swim to me
I know will be
a grand extravasation
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And from W.F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism, Arlington House,2nd Printing 1968, p.221:

"The question: how can conservatism accommodate revolution? Can the revolutionary essense be extravasated and be made to diffuse harmlessly in the network of capillaries that rushes foward to accommodate its explosive force?..."

great job douglas!!

am impressed!
i have such awesome people in my group:)
it truly is a pleasure having such an awesome and nice guy like u with us douglas.stay happy:)

Awesome wrote: "am impressed!
i have such awesome people in my group:)
it truly is a pleasure having such an awesome and nice guy like u with us douglas.stay happy:)"

Well said! Well said! Douglas is awsome at poems and writing! I wonder if he has wattpad???

:)

Cordial:
warm and friendly

Laura wrote: "Cordial:
warm and friendly"

I've heard this used mostly with sarcasm when two leaders who hate each other meet and act with exaggerated courtesy. A "cordial" meeting usually means that they didn't scream or curse at each other. It's also the name of a liqueur -- I guess it goes along with the metaphor of being too sweet and mellow for the sake of appearances and politeness. Sometimes after a cordial diplomatic dinner, the participants go back to their home countries and declare war because of the underlying disagreements. Shaking hands with the enemy can be fun if the food is good.

I found this on Google:
From Enemies: A History of the FBI, by Tim Weiner,Random House Publishing Group, Feb 14, 2012:

"The FBI kept right on infiltrating the ACLU throughout these exchanges of pleasantries, and in the months and years thereafter. ...the Bureau maintained a spy on the ACLU's executive board, purloined the minutes of its meetings...and kept tabs on its donor lists. Seven weeks after his cordial meeting with Baldwin, Hoover was receiving new and detailed reports on the ACLU board's legal strategies.... "They never stopped watching us..." [spying]
Enemies: A History of the FBI

P.S. Hmm, this brings up a big problem with the dictionary. I find I can rarely use a word I've never heard of in a sentence just based on the definition in the dictionary. Over the years, almost every word has taken on popular connotations. If you haven't read widely and heard the word used in context, chances are you'll be laughed at if you use it with the wrong flavor. And some synonyms may technically have the right meaning that you want but would be inappropriate for a particular social context. If you're talking to an acquaintance and engaging in mild teasing and mock challenge, you wouldn't usually say that "You're acting in a very bellicose way -- you must cease and desist immediately, or I'll call the authorities." Too formal. Despite what the dictionary may say, you really can't refer to a rival club as "those bellicose friends of yours who always harass me in the hallway." At least not unless they have tanks and missiles. They usually don't allow those in school.

Lol.
Hey Douglas, your awesome :-)
Thanks for the information :-)

Awesome wrote: "Lol.
Hey Douglas, your awesome :-)
Thanks for the information :-)"

Thanks very much. I hope you don't mind, but I meant to say this a few times(and I do this too sometimes):

It's actually, "Hey Awesome, you're awesome too."

A short way to say "you are" is to use the contraction, "you're". I make that error a lot too because it sounds the same. These mean the same:

You are awesome.
You're awesome.

We're awesome too.

Your day is awesome when you're awesome.
Your day is awesome when you are awesome.

Sorry about all of that because I make a lot of mistakes and feel silly mentioning it. I just made a fool of myself with a spelling mistake on an entry of mine, and I hope I corrected it before someone noticed it. I have a lot of trouble when different words sound the same but have different spellings, and spell check doesn't help with that. For example, spell check will always say that these three are correct even if you've used them in the wrong context: to, two, and too.

Don't worry I get annoyed if I use the wrong you're your and all that close wording

People kept waiting in the vestibule, never invited in, find even the simple lone flower lachrymose, dying in its vase, and in their sorrow, finding no cordial invitation forthcoming, search for a latibule for their shame.

Magnanimous : iconic, huge, arty, charismatic.

lol!
thanks so much douglas

thanks for correcting m.am happy u did:0
you're cool:)

You are all such cool people!

Calamity

cosmos,u have to write the meaning along the word:)

Sorry. I'm new to this game.

Calamity: chaos, disturbance, riot, ruckus.

No worries :-)thanks for the word :-)keep it up!

Thanks! Will do.

Placard: sign, emblem, notice.

covet:
wish, long, or crave for

Whats the word of the day?

Whats the quote of the day?

Lament: rue, be sorry for, grieve.

mollify
appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).
"Nature reserves were set up around the power stations to mollify local conservationists"
synonyms: appease, placate, pacify, conciliate, soothe, calm (down)
"they tried to mollify the protesters"

[I found this in a google search. I'd like to give credit and attribution for this but they don't seem to list who wrote it.]
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I wrote this one however:

Some protestors marched carrying rude placards that offended many bystanders, and almost caused a riot, but she came along with her charm, good humor and a song, convinced them to put down their signs, and with her disarming presence like an angel they were mollified.

Good choice, Douglas.

Eradicate: remove, get rid of, erase.

persiflage
Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter

The internet is a place where there is more persiflage than conversation, more flaky acquaintances than intimacy, a place of laughing in silence and lonely isolation.

Eradicate the mosquito and you will purge the Zika virus from the hot zones, but unfortunately it's too late for the babies already born.

Cosmos wrote: "Lament: rue, be sorry for, grieve."
The dictionary is very frustrating because some of the synonyms take you in circles because they don't specify the connotations of each. I've never heard "rue" used except in the cliché "You'll rue the day that ...". I've never seen it used by itself.

You'll rue the day you stood at the podium and read false lamentations to a political crowd, shedding alligator tears.

You'll rue calling the Devil's name while standing in the swamp with a wombat and a slice of anchovy pizza covered in blood.

Nice coverage of RUE, Douglas.