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Word of the Day – Anodyne

  • Adjective: Anodyne
    1. not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so. “anodyne New Age music”
  • Noun: Anodyne
    1. a painkilling drug or medicine.
  • Synonyms (adjective):
  1. Harmless
  2. Benign
  3. Innocent
  4. Innocuous
  5. Inoffensive
  6. Safe
  • Usage:

“Like the Mule, it cut the ginger beer’s sweetness with half a lime, squeezed into the glass and then dropped into it. And like the Mule, it was based on the cutting-edge spirit of its day. In 1900—and here’s why I prefer the drink—that meant not an anodyne distillate like vodka, but rather a good, rich blended Scotch whisky.”

  • Encountered:

While reading an article on The Daily Beast – Mamie Taylor is the Original Moscow Mule

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Vanity Plate of the Day – NICENEZ

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This one was on the back of a Corvette.  Have you ever noticed that there is some sort of meme out there that folks driving Vettes must go 5 to 10 mph below the limit.  Perhaps they are saying, ‘Indubitably I could smoke the doors off your jalopy,  but instead I am going to make you pass me so you can admire my fine ride from all angles,.”

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Quote for the Day – Joseph Conrad

joseph_conrad“You mustn’t forget that he does not exercise his extraordinary power over the lower classes without a certain amount of personal risk and without a great profusion in spending his money. One must pay in some way or other for such a solid thing as individual prestige.”  In Nostromo – A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad

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Word of the Day – Chyron

  • Noun: Chyron
    1. an electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or movie screen.
  • Synonyms:
    1. None found
  • Usage:

“Reaction to the “nasty woman” line was ebullient on the left, trending on Twitter thanks to women appropriating the designation for themselves. Cable news was a garden of “nasty” chyrons for days afterwards..”

  • Encountered:

While reading an article on The Daily Beast – Trump Finally Pissed Off the Wrong Women. All of Them.

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Word of the Day – Sepulchral

Sepulchral

  •  Adjective: sepulchral
    1. very sad and serious : very dismal or gloomy
    2. of or relating to a sepulchre
  • Synonyms:
    1. Gloomy
    2. Lugubrious
    3. Somber
    4. Melancholy
    5. Melancholic
    6. Sad
    7. Sorrowful
    8. Mournful
    9. Doleful
    10. Dismal
    11. literary dolorous
  • Usage:

‘”Amuse yourself well!” replied Bonacieux, in a sepulchral tone.’

  • Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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