Posted on 05/19/2010 5:45:52 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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".
translucent • \trans-LOO-sunt\ • adjective 
1. not transparent but clear enough to allow light to pass through *
2. free from disguise or falseness
* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence
Example sentence:
The translucent window glass gave us enough daylight to work without allowing people standing outside to see in.
Did you know?
Look closely and you will see the same three letters in "translucent" and "elucidate," letting the family relationship between the two words shine through. Both terms descend from the Latin word "lucēre," meaning "to shine." ("Translucent" is from "lucēre" plus "trans-," which means "through.") When you "elucidate" something, you make it clear by explaining it in a way that can be easily understood -- you "shed light on" it. "Lucēre" is also the root of another bright and shining English word, "lucid," which can mean either "bright with light" or "clear and easy to understand."
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....
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)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
Democrat disdain for the Constitution is not translucent; it is transparent!
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Only 
days left until BO's replacement is sworn in.
Get to class you slackers!
Gotta run. It’s the boss’s 50th b-day and I’m cooking the pancakes.
ki$$@$$!!!
how long til they are roasting weenies on fires set on Wall St?
Dunno, but I suspect it will be after London.
In our small workgroup, we’ve had two that turned 40 within the last couple of years, and now the boss turning 50. With the first one that turned 40, to do something special I brought in my griddle and cooked pancakes in our breakroom (probably violated all kinds of safety and security rules by doing that). Then when the second one turned 40 I did the same thing. So it kind of set the tradition of pancakes on the big milestone b-days. With the a priori precedent set, I certainly wouldn’t want to diss the boss by not doing pancakes today.
Well, he knows Arlene.
probably would have been grounds for firing, or at least calling in OSHA to cite you for the prior griddle usage... ; )
arlene’s wife looks like arlene in a dress.
The socialist sycophants who sent
Obama to office, translucent?
Transparent? Opaque?
Admit your mistake
Remove the stench; we need a new scent
I probably misused “a priori” but figured you wouldn’t be pedantic enough to correct me. ;-)
i really don’t get off on correcting people, that’s why there’s not much paddling on Mondays in class... ; )
clearly a buncha crap
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