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!
I prefer calling him the pres_ent
Yes, that’s better.
Whatsamatter? GE burn your toast? Or the alarm clock didn’t go off?
GE is to this adminstration as Volkswagon was to a prior German one.
saw that, bout time!
whoa! look at ME, i am posting from my phone! i swore it wouldnt let me post, have had the phone for a year and a half.
i am at the icerink waiting for gonzaga eagles to hopefully stomp some g’town prep butt.
Martin Gelinas, one of my favorites and a good guy. We kept him in the organization though, for grooming younger players.
We are anxiously waiting for reports about the beat-down they so richly deserve.
Great word for this balmy, shorts-and-sandals winter we are having-
Despite this gelid winter
The envirowackos scream-
That mean old natural universe
Stole their cherished dream
Of human control of weather
By just turning off the lights
Making everyone walk everywhere
Wearing sweaters and tights
Now, instead of growing warmer
We’re buried in snow and ice-
Before they start whining yet again
They really should think twice
49 and rainy here, but supposed to be closer to normal highs tomorrow...
OMG.......you have truly gone high tech on us! Congrats.
Have any of you noticed TheOne has been making commercials extolling the virtues of fatherhood?? OK, that's a good thing, but pay attention, because there's a nice official gubmint website referenced at the end of it...
http://www.fatherhood.gov
Surely I am not the only right-wing crazy who sees the extrmeme irony in this.
A government who has spent the last 45 years and gazillions of our dollars DESTROYING the role of the father - especially so in minority communities - by pushing a welfare system that actually discourages the presence of a father in the home has exactly WHAT moral authority to now tell us that maybe a 2-parent family just might be a good thing?
And if we have degenerated to such a pitiful condition that we need the Big Brother Nanny State to share such wisdom....well, good God!! Just beam me up NOW!
SHEILA JACKSON-LEE GETS BOOED in the HEART OF HER OWN DISTRICT!
See the blog post at 8:24...keep in mind that she is on the campus of TSU, a predominantly black university. Apparently, her self-promoting appearance was NOT appreciated.
gonzaga won 3-1!!! xsboy had an assist. life is sweet when prep gets beat!!!
that is FANTASTIC news!!
Looks like the atmosphere in sunny California is getting more gelid by the day:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2444626/posts
(BTW, I’m from L.A. originally. The decline is very sad.)
A+ for you! We’ve had rain all day and more is predicted for the next couple of days.
A+ for the rant of the gelid-hearted government, stepping in to be Big Daddy.
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