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!
believe me, my freshman is hyperconscious of that fact and worried sick about it! xsboy is a senior and they don’t have to make up snow days.
half the department is ready to quit........it’s come to a head.....I think a chief might just have quit today...he didn’t show up for duty on the squad today. things are a royal mess. not really gelid, more like burning hot anger on both sides.
Have you forgotten?
Only Republicans Lie.
Democrats misspeak.
Wow, he’s asking for a lot of do-re-mi! A+ for you.
Yikes. Maybe the change in leadership will foster some goodwill. I know it will nationally in 2012!
He is in campaign mode 24-7. BTW, I cannot stand that dancing robot. Am I the only one?
i was not familiar with it til i clicked on mary katherine hamm’s link.
I just read that. I feel bad for both of them, but not as much as i feel bad for those of us who had to read it.
is that her picture on the thread?
That’s creepy. I actually felt sorry for him. It sounds like he needs some therapy and I don’t mean massage.
One assumes so.
yes he was a sad sounding case for sure.
After his unwelcome, very expensive, outdoor early winter operation, the newly minted castrato received a gilded gelded and very gelid reception from his (former) girlfriend, who wanted children later when they got married.
Wow, that’s a long sentence. It deserves an A.
GE...They bring evil to life.
Thanks a lot, Dougie Downer. A+ for you, F- for the _resident.
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