Thursday, September 30, 2010


Word of the Day for Thursday, September 30, 2010
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lucifugous \loo-see-FOO-guhs\, adjective:
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Avoiding light.
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The B.O.'s Congressional Democrat minions are set to sneak out of town tonight like nothing more than the money grabbing lucifugous vampires that they are!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Lucifugous combines two Latin roots, luci-, "light," and fugere, "to flee."

Wednesday, September 29, 2010


Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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confiscable \kuhn-FIS-kuh-buhl\, adjective:
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Liable to be taken by an authorized party.
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Any money that you earn is considered confiscable by the B.O.!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Confiscable is a legal term whose source is the Latin confiscare, from com- "together" and fiscus, "public treasury," literally "money basket."

Tuesday, September 28, 2010


Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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efface \ih-FAYS\, transitive verb:
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1. To cause to disappear by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible.
2. To destroy, as a mental impression; to wipe out; to eliminate completely.
3. To make (oneself) inconspicuous.
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The B.O. and his politburo are on a mission to efface the Constitution!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Efface comes from French effacer, from Old French esfacier, from es-, "out" (from Latin ex-) + face, "face" (from Latin facies).

Monday, September 27, 2010


Word of the Day for Monday, September 27, 2010
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rigmorole \RIG-muh-rohl\, noun:
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1. An elaborate or complicated procedure.
2. Confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk.
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The B.O. and the rest of the Dems offer up nothing but socialist style rigmorole!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Rigmarole is an unusual alteration of the Middle English phrase ragman roll, which refers to a "long list or catalog."

Friday, September 24, 2010


Word of the Day for Friday, September 24, 2010
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frabjous \FRAB-juhs\, adjective:
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Wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
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For all the voters who thought that the B.O. would be such a frabjous President - YOU WERE WRONG, ADMIT IT!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Frabjous is one of many words coined by Lewis Caroll in Through the Looking-Glass.

Thursday, September 23, 2010


Word of the Day for Thursday, September 23, 2010
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diaphanous \dy-AF-uh-nuhs\, adjective:
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1. Of such fine texture as to allow light to pass through; translucent or transparent.
2. Vague; insubstantial.
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The B.O.'s campaign promises of hope and change were diaphanous at best!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Diaphanous ultimately derives from Greek diaphanes, "showing through," from diaphainein, "to show through, to be transparent," from dia-, "through" + phainein, "to show, to appear." It is related to phantom, something apparently sensed but having no physical reality.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010


Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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agog \uh-GOG\, adjective:
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Full of excitement or interest; in eager desire; eager, keen.
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The Tea Party, Conservatives, Republicans, and even some Reagan Democrats are all agog at the prospect of defeating the B.O.'s politburo type candidates like Harry Reid and Chris Coons in the November election!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Agog derives from Middle French en gogues, "in mirth; lively."

Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\, adjective:
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Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.
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Wow, finally a word to describe the enormity of the B.O.'s ineptitude - Brobdingnagian!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Brobdingnagian is from Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Monday, September 20, 2010


Word of the Day for Monday, September 20, 2010
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imago \ih-MAH-goh\, noun:
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1. Entomology. An adult insect.
2. An idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life.
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The B.O., Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi are nothing more than lupine imagoes bent on furthering their socialist-Marxist agendas at any price!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Imago is a term that originated in psychoanalysis but migrated into popular usage in the 20th Century.

Friday, September 17, 2010


Word of the Day for Friday, September 17, 2010
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burlesque \ber-LESK\, adjective:
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1. Involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject.
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noun:
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1. Any ludicrous parody or grotesque caricature.
2. A humorous and provocative stage show featuring slapstick humor, striptease acts, and a scantily clad female chorus.
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Soon the B.O.'s burlesque show, a.k.a. the Democrat controlled Congress, will have some new Republican faces to contend with!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Burlesque comes from the Italian burlesco, "to jest."

Thursday, September 16, 2010


Word of the Day for Thursday, September 16, 2010
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quaggy \KWAG-ee\, adjective:
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1. Marshy; boggy.
2. Soft or flabby.
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The Mrs. B.O. has all those quaggy little kids on her McRadar; I guess that's her diversion away from her "hellish duties" in the White House!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Quaggy ultimately derives from the Old English cwabba, "shake or tremble," in the sense of viscous fluid.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010


Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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arch \AHRCH\, adjective:
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1. Cunning; crafty; sly.
2. Obsolete. A person who is preeminent; a chief.
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noun:
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1. A curved masonry construction for spanning an opening.
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The B.O. is the arch screw-up of the Democrat Party!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Arch originally meant "chief," as in an archangel, but took on the sense of "mischevious" in the 1660s.

Monday, September 13, 2010


Word of the Day for Monday, September 13, 2010
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tittle \TIT-l\, noun:
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1. A dot or other small mark in writing or printing, used as a diacritic, punctuation, etc.
2. A very small part or quantity; a particle, jot, or whit
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The only utterances of the B.O.'s worth listening to are but his final tittle following any of his speeches!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Tittle is the etymological sibling of title, both coming from the Latin titulus, "a mark over a letter or word."

Wednesday, September 8, 2010


Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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gerrymander \JER-i-man-der\, verb:
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The dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
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The B.O. won his initial political elections thanks to years of gerrymandering!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Gerrymander is named after E. Gerry (governor of Massachusetts, whose party redistricted the state in 1812) + (sala)mander, from the fancied resemblance of the map of Essex County, Mass., to this animal, after the redistricting.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010


Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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kenspeckle \KEN-spek-uhl\, adjective:
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Conspicuous; easily seen or recognized.
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The B.O.'s kenspeckle socialist-Marxist agenda is going to result in the Democrats getting a thumping defeat in November!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Kenspeckle comes from Scottish and Northern English dialects, ultimately relating back to Norwegian.

Friday, September 3, 2010


Word of the Day for Friday, September 3, 2010
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cachinnate \KAK-uh-neyt\, verb:
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To laugh loudly or immoderately.
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I can just hear the B.O., Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid all cachinnate together as they pass each new piece of socialist legislation!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Cachinnate evolves into the English cackle , but derives from the Sanskrit kakhati, "laughs."

Thursday, September 2, 2010


Word of the Day for Thursday, September 2, 2010
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bilocation \bahy-loh-KEY-shuhn\, noun:
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The state of being or the ability to be in two places at the same time.
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The B.O. has an uncanny power of bilocation - his brain is always on vacation even though his body may be temporarily at work!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Bilocation is said to originate in the 19th century as a description for the alleged ability of certain Roman Catholic saints.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010


Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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anacoluthia \an-uh-kuh-LOO-thee-uh\, noun:
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Lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, esp. in a sentence.
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When off-script and/or off-teleprompter, the B.O. suffers from anacoluthia!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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While anacoluthia generally describes a grammatically garbled sentence, an anacoluthon is a technical term in rhetoric that describes "a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence, as in 'It makes me so-I just get angry.'"