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Word for the Day, Tuesday July 22, 2014

Posted on 07/22/2014 5:09:56 AM PDT by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, Tuesday July 22, 2014



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".

cunctation [kuhngk-tey-shuhn]

-n
delay; tardiness.

[1575–85; < Latin cunctātiōn- (stem of cunctātiō ) delay, equivalent to cunctāt ( us ) (past participle of cunctārī to delay) + -iōn- -ion]

la pesadilla [pehs-ah-DEE-yah ]

-n
nightmare

El tráfico de las 5:00 es habitualmente una pesadilla.

The traffic at 5:00 is usually a nightmare.


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To: NeoCaveman; SoothingDave

women like that make me sick, and account for the stereotype. annoys the crap out of me. I counsel against that type of behavior every chance I get, and rest assured I will go into it with xsteen when the time is appropriate.


21 posted on 07/22/2014 6:21:53 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

that’s pretty funny!


22 posted on 07/22/2014 6:22:23 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Halbig decision is out.

“the ACA unambiguously restricts...subsidy to insurance purchased on Exchanges ‘established by the State.’”


23 posted on 07/22/2014 7:27:16 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Please pardon my cunctation at posting a response to the WFTD.

Could we say that Obama’s cunctation at enforcing the law and securing the border is putting the entire nation in danger?


24 posted on 07/22/2014 7:27:24 AM PDT by HammerT (The Right to keep and bear arms: A Commonsense Civil Right)
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To: SoothingDave
Here  's an example of cunctation in punctuation   !
25 posted on 07/22/2014 7:40:44 AM PDT by mikrofon (TWFTD Bump)
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To: SoothingDave

On our way to and from the college tour yesterday, we noticed el tráfico era una pesadilla. Fortunately, we were going the other way each time. ;)


26 posted on 07/22/2014 8:03:07 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

I think you grossed us out too.


27 posted on 07/22/2014 8:05:00 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

Looks like Roberts will have to rewrite the statute from the bench again next year.


28 posted on 07/22/2014 8:09:40 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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Para mí, quesadillas causan pesadillas.


29 posted on 07/22/2014 8:12:10 AM PDT by mikrofon (El Bonus)
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To: SoothingDave

Gotta vote today in the runoff elections here in GA.

Blah ..... The good conservative candidates picked up mostly third place results because the conservative votes were split among several different candidate, and the establish-repubbies set up only one per race.

We will be sentenced to a cunctation mark surrounded by clauses and pauses ....


30 posted on 07/22/2014 8:15:58 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: NicknamedBob

That was mean but funny!


31 posted on 07/22/2014 8:18:30 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: SoothingDave

That is an entrance that will be remembered for awhile!


32 posted on 07/22/2014 8:21:15 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: NeoCaveman; xsmommy

That thread was funny - but I’m thinking that marriage had a few more issues than just her turning him down or being disgustingly dirty


33 posted on 07/22/2014 8:23:14 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

And he’s a jerk for creating the spreadsheet and she’s as bad or worse for publishing it where everyone could see it.


34 posted on 07/22/2014 8:51:00 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman

I thought he published it? But yes you are right - they both are messed up


35 posted on 07/22/2014 8:58:55 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: SoothingDave; hobbes1; Robert A. Cook, PE

We’re having computer problems here. Something highjacked my new tab page to bing with loud ads but I changed it back and now the spouse’s computer is playing ads with everything on it closed, no windows open, even playing while it is supposedly hibernating. What is going on?


36 posted on 07/22/2014 9:03:32 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

I wonder if anyone has on their menu a pesadilla quesadilla?


37 posted on 07/22/2014 9:13:23 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Runoffs are almost as stupid as open primaries.


38 posted on 07/22/2014 9:14:40 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

You know what is really stupid? Run off primaries that are open.


39 posted on 07/22/2014 10:17:31 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: SoothingDave

Whistling past the graveyard
Of every issue that arises
Obama’s minions perpetuate
Cunctation and bad surprises

Obama was out playing golf
And he couldn’t even smell
Anything from Israel or Russia
As both places went to hell

They claim he knows nothing-
So much less than you or me
Till he is done playing golf
And watches some news on TV...

La frontera es una pesadilla...


40 posted on 07/22/2014 10:17:46 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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