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Word of the Day – Trepidation

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  •  Noun:  Trepidation
    1. a feeling of fear that causes you to hesitate because you think something bad or unpleasant is going to happen
  •  Synonyms:
    1. Fear
    2. Apprehension
    3. Dread
    4. Fearfulness
    5. Fright
    6. Agitation
    7. Anxiety
    8. Worry
    9. Nervousness
    10. tension
  • Usage:
  • “It was a secret for sure, but it was not built for nefarious reasons,” Mr. McDonald told The Toronto Sun. “It was a place that no one knew about.”
  • Encountered:
    • BBC news story on Toronto tunnel recently discovered

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Word of the Day – Nefarious

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  • Adjective: Nefarious
    1. extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous
  •  Synonyms:
    1. Wicked
    2. Evil
    3. Sinful
    4. Iniquitous
    5. Egregious
    6. Heinous
    7. Atrocious
    8. Vile
    9. foul
  • Usage:
    • “It was a secret for sure, but it was not built for nefarious reasons,” Mr. McDonald told The Toronto Sun. “It was a place that no one knew about.”
  • Encountered:
    • BBC news story on Toronto tunnel recently discovered

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Word of the Day – Hackneyed

  • Adjective:  hackneyedhackneyed
    1. not interesting, funny, etc., because of being used too often : not fresh or original
  •  Synonyms:
    1. Overused
    2. Overdone
    3. O0verworked
    4. worn out
    5. timeworn
    6. platitudinous
    7. vapid
    8. stale
    9. tired
    10. threadbare
  • Usage:
    • “Besides being offensive and hackneyed, the joke didn’t even have any relationship to reality.”
  • Encountered:
    • Alternet.org story: 6 Conservatives Who Desperately Need a High-School Sex Ed Class

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Word of the Day – Cisgender

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  • Noun:  Cisgender
    1. a word that applies to the vast majority of people, describing a person who is not transgender. If a doctor announces, “It’s a girl!” in the delivery room based on the child’s body and that baby grows up to identify as a woman, that person is cisgender.
    2.  actual gender
    3. The rejection of the belief that your gender can change by merely *thinking* that you’re a different gender.
  •  Synonyms:
    1. nontransgender
  • Usage:

 “Someone who most likely had never heard the word “cisgender” until he or she read this.” ~~  One of the answers in the quiz linked below

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Word of the Day – Shebeen

  • Noun:  Shebeen
    1.   an unlicensed or illegally operated drinking establishment
  • Synonyms:
    1. bar
    2. saloon
    3. speakeasy
  • Usage:
    1. “In 2016, I decided to make it a custom here at the shebeen to reveal the candidate for whom I voted in the Democratic primary election because a) I think it’s right to be transparent about such things, especially in a format dedicated primarily to opinion, and b) because why the hell not?” ~ Charles P. Pierce
  • Encountered:
    1. Esquire opinion piece by Charles P. Pierce –I Went Over to City Hall This Afternoon and Voted for Elizabeth Warren for President

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Word of the Day – Fungible

  •  Adjective:  Fungible
    1. (of goods contracted for without an individual specimen being specified) able to replace or be replaced by another identical item; mutually interchangeable.
  • Synonyms:
    1. compatible
    2. synonymous
    3. changeable
    4. commutable
    5. exchangeable
    6. interconvertible
  • Usage:

“Energy is fungible. The more we save, the less we need to use.” ~~  from the book referenced below

  • Encountered:

While reading The Little Blue Book by George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling

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