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Word of the Day – Augury

Augury

  •  Noun: Augury
    1. divination from auspices or omens; also : an instance of this
    2. omen, portent
  • Synonyms:
    1. Bodement
    2. Cast
    3. Forecast
    4. Foretelling
    5. Predicting
    6. Presaging
    7. Prognosis
    8. Prognostic
    9. Prognosticating
    10. Prognostication
    11. prophecy
    12. soothsaying
  • Usage:

“This smile appeared to d’Artagnan to be of bad augury.”

  • Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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Quote for the Day – Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Word of the Day – Cabal

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  • Noun: Cabal
    1. the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government); also :  a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues
    2. club, group
  • Synonyms:
    1. clique
    2. faction
    3. coterie
    4. cell
    5. sect
    6. junta
    7. camarilla
  • Usage:

“Does my lord seriously wish me to name any one who was mixed up in the cabals of that day?”

  • Encountered:

While reading Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

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Vanity Plate for the Day – DRILL-M

DRILL-MDRILL-M

This was on a Ford Edge.  Could it be former DI?  Or a band director? Or a coach? Some sort of marksman?

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Quote for the Day – Buddha

Buddha“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” ~~ Buddha

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Vanity Plate for the Day – FREE2B

FREE2B

This is was on the back of a gray Honda Accord.  I reckon they are free to be plain and boring, but then freedom means different things to different folks.

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Quote for the Day – Virginia Woolf

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” ~~ Virginia Woolf

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Vanity Plate for the Day – NERD 2

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This was on a Nissan Altima. So are they the second nerd to request this tag, or perhaps they are just saying I am a nerd too.

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Word of the Day – Pettifogger

pettifogger

  •  Noun: Pettifogger
    1. a lawyer whose methods are petty, underhanded, or disreputable :  shyster
    2. one given to quibbling over trifles
  • Synonyms:
    1. Dishonest
    2. Fraud
    3. Corruption
    4. Cheating
    5. Deception
    6. Deceit
    7. Gerrymandering
  • Usage:

“He owed me for the councillor, the pettifogger!”

  • Encountered:

While reading Twenty Years After by Alexandre

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Quote for the Day – Jimmy Carter

jimmycarter“Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things -– he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.” – Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States and around good guy and very devout Christian

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