Word for the Day, Monday, January 9, 2012-- consternate

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[xsmommy]

Word For The Day, Monday, 1/9/12

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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".

consternate; verb

verb (used with object), -nat·ed, -nat·ing. to dismay, confuse, or terrify. to fill with anxiety, dismay, dread, or confusion

Etymology:1645–55; < Latin consternātus, past participle of consternāre to unsettle, throw into confusion, perhaps intensive derivative of consternere to cover, spread (with) ( con- con- + sternere to strew; compare stratum), though sense development uncertain

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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[xsmommy]

oh wow, that is awful!

[xsmommy]

the chubbikins still makes me heart beat fast. i LOVE when he does this kind of thing!

[Robert A Cook PE]

That Howard’s “shows” even get on the public airwaves should consternate every observer who has read that British classic “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire” ... We are going through Rome’s pattern of bread and circuses for the masses, sexual depravity, excesses, and pop “culture”.

Even the US military now is used as a path to citizenship by the democrats - just like the Romans used citizenship and gold to man their ranks with barbarians to fight the Germans.

[xsmommy]

We are going through Rome’s pattern of bread and circuses for the masses, sexual depravity, excesses, and pop “culture”.

Panem. I thought that was cool.

[SoothingDave]

His shows are no longer on public airwaves.

[xsmommy]

I need a verification on a yiddish term, “shpilkis”... ants in the pants kind of thing? everything yiddish that i know, i learned in law school, so it’s been a while. this was just used in my fave hockey blog and i literally howled out loud when i saw it.

[SoothingDave]

I was explaining Yiddish to my daughter the other day. “There are a lot of common words we borrow from Yiddish. Most of them are words for ‘penis’ or ‘butthole.’”

[xsmommy]

there are a lot of penile ones aren’t there?

[Explorer89]

italian word for bread is pane. interesting.

[SoothingDave]

The Italian word for “little worms” is “vermicelli.”

Now, eat your dinner. ;-)

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

You got “shpilkis” exactly correct: ants in the pants. As in, “My brother-in-law has shpilkis. He can’t sit still for five minutes.”

[Honorary Serb]

We all know what is going to happen. Nearly every conservative—even conservative independents like me—will vote for whoever the Republicans put up against obama.

However, I am right to be consternated by the banksters having taken over the Republican nominating process, to swing it to the bankster candidate Romney. That is because I know that the banksters’ REAL favorite is obama himself, and Romney may well be deliberately chosen as one who can be easily beaten by obama in the general election.

[Texan5]

I dance alone in the kitchen a lot, so I’ll come to the party-it is a drizzly, gray cold day and I welcome the company-I’m apparently alone with my thoughts on the road today, or so it seems-not a human sound or movement-just the wind and birds. When I was up in the woods this morning, I actually heard a big blue heron fly out of the brush on the shore before I saw it, and even heard the deers’ hooves on the rocks. When it is deserted like this in winter, I think I would like living in the wilds of Montana, Wyoming, Alaska...

The account of the Halloween party
Thrown by the Obamas consternated-
Not only did it waste our money
But it also further segregated

All of us little ordinary people
Struggling to make ends meet
From their noble Hollywood guests
And the Washington ‘rat elite

And that tell-all book’s author
Knew just exactly how to find
The bits that would best sharpen
The axe that she has to grind

[Texan5]

“The Romans used citizenship and gold to man their ranks with barbarians to fight the Germans.”

Yeah, and we all know how long that worked out well, don’t we? As a lifetime avid studier of the Roman Empire, I’m endlessly amazed at how our own actions mirror those of Rome, and not in a good way...

[Robert A Cook PE]

You got “shpilkis” exactly correct: shants in the pants. As in, “My brother-in-law has shpilkis. He can’t sit still for five minutes.”

Ain't that supposed to be “My brother-in-law had shitpilkis. Yep, he had to sit very still every five minutes on the toilet this passed weekend until it finally cleared up.”

[MoochPooch]

Another item that consternates me:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2830591/posts

I hate to say it, but we simply can’t live with Muslims anymore.

[xsmommy]

i can't recall exactly where it was in the book, and if it was Haymitch or someone else, discussing a civilization from several thousand years ago where the language was called Latin and they used Panem et circenses, to keep the people appeased. I know it was towards the end somewhere.

[xsmommy]

That literally took me back 30 years or so. I laughed out loud when i saw the word bc i haven’t had occasion to see/hear it in forever. It was fun to travel back in time and remember the friend who introduced me to the word. I haven’t seen or heard from him in decades either, i think he’s practicing in FL somewhere.

[xsmommy]

great job! that Halloween party is a scandal isn’t it??

[xsmommy]

A+++ certainly appears that way, Moochie.