Word of the Day for Friday, April 30, 2010

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doula \DOO-luh\, noun:

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A woman who assists during childbirth labor and provides support to the mother, her child and the family after childbirth.

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The B.O.'s doula has never been out of Kenya!

Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Doula derives from Greek doula, "servant-woman, slave," akin to hierodule.

Word of the Day for Thursday, April 29, 2010

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valetudinarian \val-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un; -tyoo-\, noun:

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1. A weak or sickly person, especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health.

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adjective:

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1. Sickly; weak; infirm.

2. Morbidly concerned with one's health.

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Ah, the B.O.'s dream is coming true - America turning into a country of valetudinarians being taken care of by his ObamaCare!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Valetudinarian derives from Latin valetudinarius, "sickly; an invalid," from valetudo, "state of health (good or ill)," from valere, "to be strong or well."

Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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pellucid \puh-LOO-sid\, adjective:

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1. Transparent; clear; not opaque.

2. Easily understandable.

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The above Power Point Slide from some characters at PA Consulting Group (they were trying to explain the whole Afghanistan situation) is more pellucid than the B.O.'s new ObamaCare!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Pellucid comes from Latin pellucidus, "shining, transparent," from pellucere, "to shine through," from per-, "through" + lucere, "to shine."

Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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quash \KWOSH\, transitive verb:

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1. (Law) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, "to quash an indictment."

2. To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, "to quash a rebellion."

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Now the question is, once the Republicans take back control of Congress, will they have the votes and intestinal fortitude to quash any or all of the socialist agenda that the B.O. and his politburo have forced upon the American public?

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Quash comes from Medieval French quasser, from Latin quassare, "to shake violently, to shatter," frequentative form of quatere, "to shake." Quash, "to annul," has been sense-influenced by Late Latin cassare, "to annul," from Latin cassus, "empty," whereas quash, "to crush," has been sense-influenced by squash.

Word of the Day for Monday, April 26, 2010

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quisling \KWIZ-ling\, noun:

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Someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying his or her country; a traitor.

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The B.O. treats the Black and Latino Tea Party activists as though they were quislings to their respective races!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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A quisling is so called after Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), Norwegian politician and officer who collaborated with the Nazis.

Word of the Day for Friday, April 23, 2010

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moil \MOYL\, intransitive verb:

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1. To work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.

2. To churn or swirl about continuously.

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noun:

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1. Toil; hard work; drudgery.

2. Confusion; turmoil.

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Soon we will all be working under the moil of the B.O.'s socialist-Marxist agenda!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Moil comes from Middle English moillen, "to soak, to wet," hence "to soil, to soil one's hands, to work very hard," from Old French moillier, "to soften, especially by making wet," ultimately from Latin mollis, "soft."

Word of the Day for Thursday, April 22, 2010

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wastrel \WAY-struhl\, noun:

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1. A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a spendthrift.

2. An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing.

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The B.O.'s adoring toadies just don't see him as the wastrel that he is!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Wastrel is from waste + -rel (as in scoundrel).

Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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empyrean \em-py-REE-uhn; -PEER-ee-\, noun:

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1. The highest heaven, in ancient belief usually thought to be a realm of pure fire or light.

2. Heaven; paradise.

3. The heavens; the sky.

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adjective:

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1. Of or pertaining to the empyrean of ancient belief.

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To paraphrase Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners, "To the empyrean, B.O.!"

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Empyrean comes from Medieval Latin empyreum, ultimately from Greek empurios, from en-, "in" + pyr, "fire."

Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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agrestic \uh-GRES-tik\, adjective:

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Pertaining to fields or the country; rural; rustic.

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The B.O. needs to take a long, agrestic walkabout in the Australian Outback for, say, 50-60 years!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Agrestic is from agrestis, from ager, "field." It is related to agriculture.

Word of the Day for Monday, April 19, 2010

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scapegrace \SKAYP-grayss\, noun:

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A reckless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless; a rascal; a scoundrel.

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With 32 rounds of golf in already during his brief presidency (Bush only had 24 in eight years), the B.O. is acting more the scapegrace than the President of the United States of America!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Scapegrace is from scape (a variant of escape) + grace.

Word of the Day for Friday, April 16, 2010

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oneiric \oh-NY-rik\, adjective:

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Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy.

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The B.O. hopes that the Tea Party people just drift off into a permanent oneiric never-never land and leave him alone to impose his will on the American public!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Oneiric comes from Greek oneiros, "dream."

Word of the Day for Thursday, April 15, 2010

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pelf \PELF\, noun:

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Money; riches; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten.

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The B.O. is terminally high on both power and pelf!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Pelf comes from Old French pelfre, "booty, stolen goods." It is related to pilfer.

Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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bloviate \BLOH-vee-ayt\, intransitive verb:

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To speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.

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The B.O., poster child for the word bloviate!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Bloviate is from blow + a mock-Latinate suffix -viate. Compare blowhard, "a boaster or braggart." Bloviation is the noun form; a bloviator is one who bloviates.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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ne plus ultra \nee-plus-UL-truh; nay-\, noun:

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1. The highest point, as of excellence or achievement; the acme; the pinnacle; the ultimate.

2. The most profound degree of a quality or condition.

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The ne plus ultra of the B.O.'s presidency will be that of his being only a one-term president!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Ne plus ultra is from Latin, literally, "(go) no more beyond", from ne, "not" + plus, "more" + ultra, "beyond."

Word of the Day for Friday, April 9, 2010

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indefatigable \in-dih-FAT-ih-guh-bul\, adjective:

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Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue.

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The B.O. has been indefatigable in his quest to move his socialist-Marxist agenda forward!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Indefatigable comes from Latin indefatigabilis, from in-, "not" + defatigare, "to tire out," from de-, intensive prefix + fatigare, "to weary."

Word of the Day for Thursday, April 8, 2010

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interlard \in-tuhr-LARD\, transitive verb:

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To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce something foreign or irrelevant into; as, "to interlard a conversation with oaths or allusions."

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One of the B.O.'s favorite pastimes is to have his toadies in Congress interlard Congressional bills with earmarks - and then deny any knowledge of it!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Interlard comes from Middle French entrelarder, from Old French, from entre, "between" (from Latin inter-) + larder, "to lard," from larde, "lard," from Latin lardum. The original sense of the word, now obsolete, was "to place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean."

Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 7, 2010

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megrim \MEE-grim\, noun:

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1. A migraine.

2. A fancy; a whim.

3. In the plural: lowness of spirits -- often with 'the'.

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The B.O. gives me a case of the megrims!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Megrim is from Middle English migrem, from Middle French migraine, modification of Late Latin hemicrania, "pain in one side of the head," from Greek hemikrania, from hemi-, "half" + kranion, "skull."

Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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land of Nod \land-uhv-NOD\, noun:

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A mythical land of sleep.

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Along with the B.O. sending our country off to the land of the Defenseless against nuke attacks, the Mrs. B.O. is good at sending her listeners off to the land of Nod!

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Land of Nod is a pun on the biblical place-name, the country to which Cain journeyed after slaying Abel. See Genesis, 4:16.

Word of the Day for Monday, April 5, 2010

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grok \GRAWK\, verb:

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To understand, especially in a profound and intimate way. Slang.

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The B.O. doesn't grok the profound dissatisfaction of the American public as expressed through the Tea Party movement!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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The slang word grok was coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", where it is a Martian word meaning literally "to drink" and metaphorically "to be one with".

Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA)

OK, so I think I have figured out the basic IQ ratings scale from the smartest to the, well, not the smartest:

1. God
2. Most of Mankind
3. Dogs
4. Amoebae
5. Cats (I'm not a big cat fan)
6. Dirt
7. Dumber than dirt
8. Congressman Hank Johnson

And if you don't believe me, click HERE and watch this video.

Now, do any of you #2 type people think that Rep. Johnson ever read the health care bill, let alone actually understood one bit of it? Yet here is a man, along with all of his other fellow Democrats, who thinks that he knows best regarding all of our health care needs. And don't forget to have him teach your children about the basics of geology and how the earth's surface is formed. Wow!

Word of the Day for Friday, April 2, 2010

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slake \SLAYK\, transitive verb:

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1. To satisfy; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.

2. To cause to lessen; to make less active or intense; to moderate; as, slaking his anger.

3. To cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water.

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1. To become slaked; to crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

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There is nothing that will slake the B.O.'s thirst for power and control!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Slake comes from Middle English slaken, "to become or render slack," hence "to abate," from Old English slacian, from slæc, "slack."

Word of the Day for Thursday, April 1, 2010

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hugger-mugger \HUH-guhr-muh-guhr\, noun:

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1. A disorderly jumble; muddle; confusion.

2. Secrecy; concealment.

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1. Confused; muddled; disorderly.

2. Secret.

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1. In a muddle or confusion.

2. Secretly.

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1. To keep secret.

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1. To act in a secretive manner.
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The B.O.'s hugger-mugger of a background would make for a good novel where Islamo-fascist extremists meet MK-ULTRA meets mind-control meets Manchurian Candidate meets Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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The origin of hugger-mugger is unknown; it is perhaps from Anglo-Irish cuggermugger, "a whispering, a low-voiced gossiping," from Irish cogair!, "whisper!"