Word of the Day for Friday, February 26, 2010

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mulct \MULKT\, noun:

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1. A fine or penalty.

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transitive verb:

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1. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or demanding a forfeiture.

2. To obtain by fraud or deception.

3. To defraud; to swindle.

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The B.O. is the King of Mulct!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Mulct comes from Latin multa, "a fine."

Word of the Day for Thursday, February 25, 2010

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gregarious \grih-GAIR-ee-us\, adjective:

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1. Tending to form a group with others of the same kind.

2. Seeking and enjoying the company of others.

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The B.O. and his team of gregarious toadies are not unlike a highly active migratory swarm of locusts that have descended upon Washington and are devouring everything in sight!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Gregarious is from Latin gregarius, "belonging to a herd or flock," from grex, greg-, "herd, flock."

Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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arcanum \ar-KAY-nuhm\, noun;

plural arcana \-nuh\:

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1. A secret; a mystery.

2. Specialized or mysterious knowledge, language, or information that is not accessible to the average person (generally used in the plural).

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The arcanum of the B.O.'s background is . . .

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

Arcanum is from the Latin, from arcanus "closed, secret," from arca, "chest, box," from arcere, "to shut in."

Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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fructuous \FRUHK-choo-uhs\, adjective:

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Fruitful; productive.

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In the B.O.'s world, it is the government that will provide for a fructuous future!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Fructuous comes from Latin fructuosus, from fructus, "enjoyment, product, fruit," from the past participle of frui, "to enjoy."

Word of the Day for Monday, February 22, 2010

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fractious \FRAK-shuhs\, adjective:

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1. Tending to cause trouble; unruly.

2. Irritable; snappish; cranky.

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The B.O. considers the Republicans a bunch of fractious obstructionists that just won't tow his socialist line!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

Fractious is from fraction, which formerly had the sense "discord, dissension, disharmony"; it is derived from Latin frangere, "to break."

Word of the Day for Friday, February 19, 2010

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gastronome \GAS-truh-nohm\, noun:

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A connoisseur of good food and drink.

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While on his world-wide Apology Tours, the B.O. has become a bit of a gastronome!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Gastronome is ultimately derived from Greek gaster, "stomach" + nomos, "rule, law."

Word of the Day for Thursday, February 18, 2010

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duplicity \doo-PLIS-i-tee, dyoo-\, noun:

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1. Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; also, an instance of deliberate deceptiveness; double-dealing.

2. The quality or state of being twofold or double.

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As the B.O. gave speech after speech during his campaign, few of his adoring fans suspected him of his duplicity!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Duplicity comes from Middle English duplicite, from Old French, from Late Latin duplicitās, doubleness, from Latin duplex, duplic-, twofold.

Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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hypnagogic \hip-nuh-GOJ-ik; -GOH-jik\, adjective:

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Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the state of drowsiness preceding sleep.

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So I can just see the B.O. laying around the White House late one night in December 2012, in a hypnagogic state of mind, wondering just what went wrong with his presidency and why the American public so resoundingly voted him out of office!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Hypnagogic (sometimes spelled hypnogogic) ultimately derives from Greek hupnos, "sleep" + agogos, "leading," from agein, "to lead."

Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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inexorable \in-EK-sur-uh-bul; in-EKS-ruh-bul\, adjective:

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Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless.

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Throughout his formative years, the B.O. came to believe, through his readings and associations with like minded people, that there should be an inexorable movement toward Marxism within the United States!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Inexorable comes from Latin inexorabilis, from in-, "not" + exorabilis, "able to be entreated, placable," from exorare, "to entreat successfully, to prevail upon," from ex-, intensive prefix + orare, "to speak; to argue; to pray."

Word of the Day for Monday, February 15, 2010

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vivify \VIV-uh-fy\, transitive verb:

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1. To endue with life; to make alive; to animate.

2. To make more lively or intense.

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The B.O. would like nothing more than to vivify his scheme called ObamaCare!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

Vivify comes from French vivifier, from Late Latin vivificare, from Latin vivus, alive.

Word of the Day for Friday, February 12, 2010

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quietus \kwy-EE-tuhs\, noun:

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1. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation.

2. Removal from activity; rest; death.

3. Something that serves to suppress or quiet.

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The B.O. needs to put a quietus on this whole ObamaCare thing!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Quietus is from Medieval Latin quietus (est), "(it is) at rest" (said of an obligation that has been discharged), from Latin quietus, "at rest."

Word of the Day for Thursday, February 11, 2010

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coquetry \KOH-ki-tree; koh-KE-tree\, noun:

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Dalliance; flirtation.

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The B.O. has more than a bit of coquetry going on between him and socialism, it is an outright love affair!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Coquetry, French coquetterie, is from coquette, the feminine form of French coquet, "flirtatious man," diminutive of coq, "rooster, cock." The adjective form is coquettish. The verb coquet (also coquette) means "to flirt or trifle with."

Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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tarradiddle \tair-uh-DID-uhl\, noun;

also taradiddle:

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1. A petty falsehood; a fib.

2. Pretentious nonsense.

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The B.O. is the preeminent elocutionist of tarradiddles!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Tarradiddle is of unknown origin.

The Heresy of Obama's Politics

As reported on Fox today, we have the following comments regarding Obama...

President Obama says it's time for Democrats and Republicans to work hard because the American people "expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics."

Apparently Obama believes that his rapacious conduct over his ObamaCare is nothing more than petty politics. Really? Since when is the fight over 1/6 of the American economy mere petty politics?

To say that the differences between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue is simply petty politics is an attempt to make it appear that both sides are pretty much in agreement and that we should just go ahead and iron out the minor differences and then pass ObamaCare. They are saying that all we need to do is just get past those petty politics and come to agreement - and do it their way.

But the differences between the two sides are monumental, and they are not mere petty politics; they are fundamentally opposed to each other. While most everyone will agree that there needs to be some basic changes made to the health care system as it currently exists, the ways to go about it are what the discussion and dissension are all about. Conservatives want to keep the free market system and the liberals want to control it. Those are not mere petty politics!

Hey, B.O., read my lips: "WE DON'T WANT OBAMACARE! We, the vast majority of the American public, don't want our great Republic turning into a socialist country!"

Yes, the Democrats won the last election, but that will change in November. Marginalizing those opposed to Obama's socialist agenda will only encourage more voters to vote the rascals out of office at the next election, and that will be a very good day!

Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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vitiate \VISH-ee-ayt\, transitive verb:

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1. To make faulty or imperfect; to render defective; to impair; as, "exaggeration vitiates a style of writing."

2. To corrupt morally; to debase.

3. To render ineffective; as, "fraud vitiates a contract."

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Is the B.O.'s end game nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to vitiate the Constitution?

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Vitiate comes from Latin vitiare, from vitium, fault. It is related to vice (a moral failing or fault), which comes from vitium via French.

Word of the Day for Monday, February 8, 2010

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approbation \ap-ruh-BAY-shuhn\, noun:

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1. The act of approving; formal or official approval.

2. Praise; commendation.

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There is an inverse relationship between the B.O.'s socialist agenda and his approval ratings - the more socialist he gets, the less approbation he receives!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Approbation is from Latin approbatio, from approbare, "to approve or cause to be approved," from ap- (for ad-), used intensively + probare, "to make or find good," from probus, "good, excellent, fine."

Word of the Day for Friday, February 5, 2010

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distrait \dis-TRAY\, adjective:

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Divided or withdrawn in attention, especially because of anxiety.

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The B.O. is causing his fellow Democrats to become distrait; they are torn between supporting his socialist-Marxist agenda that the vast majority of the American public does not want, and their getting re-elected!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Distrait is from Old French, from distraire, "to distract," from Latin distrahere, "to pull apart; to draw away; to distract," from dis- + trahere, "to draw, to pull." It is related to distraught and distracted, which have the same Latin source.

Word of the Day for Thursday, February 4, 2010

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pecuniary \pih-KYOO-nee-air-ee\, adjective:

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1. Relating to money; monetary.

2. Consisting of money.

3. Requiring payment of money.

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As stores that sold B.O. memorabilia continue to be shuttered, it would appear that the pecuniary incentive to keep promoting the B.O. Sideshow is over!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Pecuniary comes from Latin pecuniarius, "of money, pecuniary," from pecunia, "property in cattle, hence money," from pecu, "livestock, one's flocks and herds."

Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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aubade \oh-BAHD\, noun:

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A song or poem greeting the dawn; also, a composition suggestive of morning.

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An aubade to the B.O. to be proclaimed far and wide on the morning of November 3, 2010:

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Oh sweet victory, sweet victory

The conservatives have made history.

The Democrats have lost their power,

On this, the Republicans' finest hour!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Aubade comes from the French, from aube, dawn + the noun suffix -ade: aube ultimately derives from Latin albus, white, pale, as in "alba lux," the "pale light" of dawn.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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gelid \JEL-id\, adjective:

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Extremely cold; icy.

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If the B.O. ever showed up on my doorstep, he would get a rather gelid reception!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Gelid comes from Latin gelidus, from gelu, "frost, cold."

Word of the Day for Monday, February 1, 2010

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mondegreen \MON-di-green\, noun:

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A word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word or phrase that has been heard.

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Clearly the biggest mondegreen resulting from the B.O.'s election campaign was from his "Change" slogan; the change the electorate thought they heard the B.O. talking about was not the change that he gave them!

--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog

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Mondegreen was coined by Sylvia Wright, US writer, from the line laid him on the green, interpreted as Lady Mondegreen, in a Scottish ballad.