Word For The Day, Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - insuperable

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ^ | 09/20/2006 | The Janitor

[VRWCmember]

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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".

insuperable • \in-SOO-puh-ruh-bul\ • adjective

incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved

Example sentence:

The battalion's strong defensive position proved to be an insuperable obstacle for the enemy.

Did you know?
"Insuperable" first appeared in print in the 14th century, and it still means now approximately what it did then. "Insuperable" is a close synonym to "insurmountable." In Latin, "superare" means "to go over, surmount, overcome, or excel." The Latin word "insuperabilis" was formed by combining the common prefix "in-" (meaning "not" or "un-") with "superare" plus "abilis" ("able"). Hence "insuperabilis" means "unable to be surmounted, overcome, or passed over," or more simply, "insurmountable." The word "insuperabilis" was later anglicized as "insuperable." Related words such as "superable," "superably," and even "superableness" have also found a place in English.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
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....

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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
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)

[VRWCmember]

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

Some school administrators demonstrate an insuperable stupidity and lack of common sense in their application of "zero-tolerance" weapon policies.

First-Grader Suspended Over Plastic Squirt Gun

No pushing at the door please!

Happy Humpday Everybody!

[VRWCmember]

Get to class, you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Miss Rika has the gradebook. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Miss Slippy is pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment her shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to her instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.

[VRWCmember]

Get to class, you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Miss Rika has the gradebook. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Miss Slippy is pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment her shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to her instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.

[VRWCmember]

Get to class, you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Miss Rika has the gradebook. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Miss Slippy is pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment her shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to her instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.

[VRWCmember]

Get to class, you slackers! I've opened a new classroom, but Miss Rika has the gradebook. So if you're looking for a grade you'll have to ping her. Miss Slippy is pretty generous with the plusses if you compliment her shapely legs, so you might try submitting your homework to her instead. My secret for getting extra plusses on my A+ from xs will remain a secret between me and her, so you're on your own if you want her to review your work.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

1?

[VRWCmember]

you got it.

[xsmommy]

took ya long enough, musta been holed up with those cheetos!

[Robert A Cook PE]

yes, the absolutely best can-never-be-beat meal of the day is insupperable.

[VRWCmember]

and i don't need to say what a conscientious student i am because here i am doing homework and the teacher hasn't even hauled his butt outta bed yet!

Are students who get to school an hour early, but then arrive to class late because they stand in the hall gossiping with their friends considered conscientious?

[xsmommy]

good word, btw. i like a useful word!

[xsmommy]

in a word. YES.

[Gabz]

Good morning.

[Panzerlied]

Are people who use the adjective "insuperable" supercilious? Or am I being silly?

[VRWCmember]

OK. Just so I understand your use of the word.

[VRWCmember]

Perhaps you are being super silly?

[Hegemony Cricket]

The waiter comes walking up to the table, and before he can even set the food on the table, the diner says, "Please take my bowl of soup back to kitchen".

The waiter asks why, and the diner says, "It is too cold".

"How can you tell when you haven't eaten any yet?", asks the waiter.

"Because you have your thumb in it".

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Predictably, those sorts of things are hard to get over...

[NeoCaveman]

Free silly you bastards :)

[Gabz]

OMG..............I'm listening to some total barking moonbat on the radio spouting off about the speeches of President Bush and the president of Iran..........her statement is it comes down to the issue of which is the bigger facist.......unfrigginbelievable.

[Hegemony Cricket]

The Steelers, last season, proved to be insuperable...