;Posted on 03/27/2013 5:20:43 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, March 27, 2013-- tractable
;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".
tractable [trak-tuh-buh l]
adjective
1. easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
2. easily worked, shaped, or otherwise handled; malleable.
Origin:
1495–1505; < Latin tractābilis, equivalent to tractā ( re ) to handle, deal with (frequentative of trahere to draw) + -bilis -ble
Related forms
trac•ta•bil•i•ty, trac•ta•ble•ness, noun
trac•ta•bly, adverb
non•trac•ta•bil•i•ty, noun
non•trac•ta•ble, adjective
non•trac•ta•ble•ness, noun
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.
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
It is 60 and gloomy, a chilly breeze, and there was a light freeze Monday and Tuesday-Spring has retreated...
Obama’s minions have no claim
To any rhyme or any reason
Their lunacy is persistent
No matter what the season
They made another dumb mistake
In their out-of-touch belief
That we the folks are tractable-
And now they’ve come to grief
With falling approval numbers
To show they’re not above it
They’re taken to the woodshed
By those folks saying “shove it”...
Hunting in the Walmart parking lot = alcohol involved and/or dumbass alert...
A+++
Love “above it” rhyming with “shove it.”
Our afternoon sleet has arrived. Wouldn’t be spring around here without a dose of snow or sleet. SPRING, where are you!
Thank you! “Shove it” is the polite euphemism I use when the situation doesn’t allow for me flipping the bird and saying what goes with it...
I’ll pass on the sleet, thanks-our non-Winter frozen precipitation usually comes in the form of hard falling hail later on, which shreds tender new vegetable plants...
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