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Word of the Day – Apoplectic

  • Adjective:  Apoplectic

    1. medical :  of, relating to, or causing apoplexy or stroke; also :  affected with, susceptible to, or showing symptoms of apoplexy or stroke Note: Use of apoplectic in medical contexts relating to stroke still occurs but is now generally considered dated.
    2.  of a kind to cause or apparently cause stroke an apoplectic rage
    3.  extremely enraged was apoplectic over the news
  • Synonyms:
    1. angered
    2. angry
    3. ballistic
    4. enraged
  • Usage
    • “McCarthy surprised viewers earlier this season when she appeared as apoplectic White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, and it’s a cameo we’ve looked forward to since. ”
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Quote for the Day – Gabriel García Márquez

‘”You made a mistake, good-looking,” he said. “I don’t do that.” “Of course you do,” she said. “One can see it in your face.” Florentino Ariza remembered a phrase from his childhood, something that the family doctor, his godfather, had said regarding his chronic constipation: “The world is divided into those who can shit and those who cannot.” On the basis of this dogma the Doctor had elaborated an entire theory of character, which he considered more accurate than astrology.’  ~~ From Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

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Quote for the Day – Samuel Beckett

“For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”  ~~ from Molloy by Samuel Beckett

 

Well… if Beckett is right, then Effingham Trump must be a very peaceful man.

Of course, I still trying to figure out the quote. Either it is a very Zen like statement or complete nonsense…or both!

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Word of the Day – Asperity

  • Noun: Asperity
    1. roughness of manner or of temper :  harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger He asked with some asperity just what they were implying.
    2. rigor, severity    … whether hearing herself described as a ‘lovely woman’ softened the asperity of her grief … — Charles Dickens
    3. roughness of surface :  unevenness; also :  a tiny projection from a surface the asperities of the tongue
    4. roughness of sound
  • Synonyms:
    1. harshness
    2. sharpness
    3. abrasiveness
    4. roughness
    5. severity
    6. acerbity
    7. astringency
    8. tartness
    9. sarcasm
  • Usage
    • “Someone Trump deemed fit to be a spokesman for him appeared on television to put a tasty dressing on her employer’s word salad: “What good does it do to have a good nuclear triad if you’re afraid to use it?” To which a retired Army colonel appearing on the same program replied with amazed asperity: “The point of the nuclear triad is to be afraid to use the damn thing .”
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Word of the Day – Amanuensis

  • Noun:
    1. plural amanuenses –  a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary
  • Synonyms:
    1. secretary
    2. stenographer
    3. transcriber
    4. scrivener
  • “But his deteriorating eyesight limited his diplomatic travels. By 1654, Milton was completely blind. For the final 20 years of his life, he would dictate his poetry, letters and polemical tracts to a series of amanuenses – his daughters, friends and fellow poets.”
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