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Word For The Day, Thursday, June 21, 2012 - divulse
dictionaries ad nauseam | 21 June 2012 | Thursday's sub

Posted on 06/21/2012 4:49:30 AM PDT by secret garden


In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

divulse \dahy-VUHLS\, verb
To tear away or apart.

Example sentences:
A perforation having been so made, it is safer to divulse the opening rather than to enlarge it by cutting in order to avoid the possibility of opening a blood vessel in an inaccessible region.
-- Eugene Fuller, M.D., The Journal of the American Medical Association

Even if you are the kooper of the winkel over measure never lost a license. Nor a duckindonche divulse from bath and breakfast.
-- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Etymology:
Divulse comes from the Latin root vellere meaning "plucked". The prefix di- is a variation of dis- before the letter v meaning "apart" or "away", as in disown.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....


Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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To: secret garden; xsmommy; NeoCaveman; SoothingDave; Scotswife

anyone having trouble logging on to Twitter? I can’t seem to get on at all. It’s like they are down? Can that happen? LOL


61 posted on 06/21/2012 9:35:57 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: tioga

I mean it’s not like the HC decision came today. That I could see crashing twitter.


62 posted on 06/21/2012 9:37:08 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: tioga

Ti, i live in a swing state bubble. you can have all the dems in your station voting for Romney but NY is not going to go republican, it comes down to electoral votes. i am not saying it can’t/won’t happen, but anecdotal evidence of people being disillusioned inspires hope, but not certainty.


63 posted on 06/21/2012 9:37:36 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Malkin’s come a long way from having no English at all. Gonchar, as a fellow countryman was likely like his big brother as he adjusted to life in the US and PGH.


64 posted on 06/21/2012 9:39:24 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

Ha haboobs!

65 posted on 06/21/2012 9:40:18 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: secret garden

some were disappointed that Landeskog beat out Nugent-hopkins, but they are both cute ; ) i missed him saying that about his mom, but that is totally ridic that she wasn’t there.


66 posted on 06/21/2012 9:41:13 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

speaking of anecdotal evidence, i have some third-hand from Paula about malkin being out in a bar somewhere in Pgh, several years ago now and his english was good enough to say YOU GORGEOUS to one of her nieces.


67 posted on 06/21/2012 9:43:29 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga
is he finally ashamed or what? .......alec burkawin
68 posted on 06/21/2012 9:46:04 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: xsmommy

Conversations like this are happening. Upstate NY is more like the midwest. NYC and their cheating determines who wins this state, but when Obama is openly trashed and it is acceptable, even assumed, that we all hate Obama it cannot just be a local phenomenon. I give most polls an extra percent or two to Romney due to just that. I suspect that in the liberal bastions they still don’t dare say they are disillusioned. The voting booth is private though. Tide is turning, momentum on our side. We still have tons of work to do and there is time to ensure we win. I choose to keep a positive attitude and keep buying Obama biographies. You are at ground zero - the DC bubble. I will pray for you! ;^)


69 posted on 06/21/2012 9:52:53 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: tioga

i am hopeful but skeptical. downstate is far more populous than your farmland up there. i was going to say HICKSVILLE, but since that’s on LI and probably blue, i can’t even say that ; )


70 posted on 06/21/2012 9:59:57 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

Please recall that xsrisingsenior is working at Fairfax co. Romney HQ and calling people on a daily basis, as is her best friend from school, but he’s in the Arlington ofc. I have all kinds of Northern Virginians for Romney bumper stickers but no one wants to take them bc they are sure their cars will be keyed!


71 posted on 06/21/2012 10:02:29 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Well mail me some!


72 posted on 06/21/2012 10:04:41 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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To: tioga

you want NORTHERN VIRGINIANS for Romney? i can mail them but.... i will see if she can get any regular Romney ones.


73 posted on 06/21/2012 10:05:45 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga; xsmommy
Interesting dynamic at play. Obams has pretty much lost the working man, the blue collar, but he's very popular among minorities and what I call (lovingly) the yuppie scum.

It may make Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin more competitive than Virginia.

Also it may make things interesting in NH, NJ, and Maine, but I wouldn't hold my breath there.

Right now Rom is up 3 in Ohio which may be close to a high water mark as this state is 50/50, although I think we can squeeze another percent out of the rural and outer burbs areas.

74 posted on 06/21/2012 10:21:52 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: xsmommy

Good point.


75 posted on 06/21/2012 10:22:14 AM PDT by tioga ( ABO for president!)
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NY went to the O man by 27 points last time. If that margin is down to 20 this time, we may be looking at least 300 electoral votes, 270 for sure.


76 posted on 06/21/2012 10:27:17 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: tioga

twitter is back loading, they acknowledged they had a temporary outage.


77 posted on 06/21/2012 10:28:36 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

is your twitter problem fixed?

They didn’t send you to Club Twitmo did they?


78 posted on 06/21/2012 10:29:14 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: NeoCaveman

RIGHT NOW is the operative word. is Soros ready to let the Obams go? or whoever caused the fall 08 turnaround?


79 posted on 06/21/2012 10:30:43 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

On September 15, 2008 there was an economic terror attack, what Congressman Kanjorski called an electronic run on the bank, that killed the incumbent party.

Now O is the incumbent party.

Look I’m not counting any chickens yet. But outside of a major Rom scandal or Obama starting war with Iran he is looking more mess than Messiah right now.

Also Soros gave the Euro three months so that means O is going to have a major mess on his hands come mid September.


80 posted on 06/21/2012 10:36:19 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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