Posted on 02/04/2010 4:43:29 AM PST 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".
gelid \JEL-id\ , adjective
Extremely cold; icy.
Example sentences:
The weather is gelid on a recent Thursday night--so uninviting that it's hard to imagine anyone venturing out.
-- Letta Tayler, "The Accent's on Brooklyn", Newsday, April 6, 2000
Last January a major crisis arose when the Argentine naval supply ship Bahia Paraiso foundered near an island off the Antarctic Peninsula, creating a diesel-oil spill that inflicted untold damage on the ecosystems clinging to the edges of the icy continent or swimming in its gelid seas.
-- Christopher Redman Paris, "Could anything be more terrible than this silent, windswept immensity?", Time, October 23, 1989
The house was silent, filled with a gelid, wintery hush even as lilac and dogwood leaves brushed darkly against the windowpanes.
-- Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World: A Novel
Etymology:
Gelid comes from Latin gelidus, from gelu, "frost, cold."
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 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!
43 days until Spring. Until then, my life will consist of gelid squalor in the back yard,
I think they’d be better off doing cross country skiing. A+ for you.
i am sure he would probably say these were not BIG votes! anything that furthers their socialist agenda is a BIG VOTE imo!
And here I thought the most dangerous thing about them was getting poked in the eye.
I have a deep mud trench alongside my driveway and snow all over the front and back yard that the rain should drive away later. Every year I have to rebuild the area on either side of the driveway from people driving through it. Frustrating. A for you.
You and about 80 million other people, nearly half of whom voted for the putz. Here in New Jersey, I'm hearing buyer's remorse from nearly all of the "independents" who voted for him, and even from some of the liberals. One sentence I have not heard, nor has anyone else in the country: "No, I didn't vote for Obama, but I sure wish that I had."
Frigid days and gelid nights...
I can’t feel my own behind
Where’s the heat they assured me
well on it’s way...
would kill birds and bees?....
(da-da-da dum)
Apologies to the late great Freddy Fender
Same on my side of the Potomac, XS!
gratifying news, truthy! i live for reports like your’s!
I am keeping a small hope that we will be able to be rid of him in less than 3 more years if he can be booted somehow. I know it’s unrealistic but it would make me happy.
hilarious!
Somebody cranked up the wayback machine this morning! A for you.
OMG.........theOne is talking at the prayer breakfast........he says “faith can teach us humility” .....what the HECK does HE know about humility? I am laughing out loud.......
I’m making a liquor run tonite, too!
Can you plant tall stones or something to prevent their driving at that spot?
If this continues, the schools will be open in July!
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