Posted on 05/16/2013 4:41:26 AM PDT 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".
requite\rih-KWYTE\ verb
1. to make return for : repay
2. to make retaliation for : avenge
3. to make suitable return to for a benefit or service or for an injury
Example sentences:
Beautiful but malevolent, Maude requited Sydney's love with scorn and treachery.
"Odds are that O’Brien's flare-up of romantic love for Amanda won't be requited."
— From a movie review by John Wirt in The Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), November 16, 2012
Etymology:
You might be familiar with the phrase "unrequited love." Love that has not been requited is love that has not been returned or paid back in kind, which brings us to the common denominator in the above definitions for "requite"—the idea of repayment,recompense, or retribution. The "quite" in "requite" is a now obsolete English verb meaning "to set free, discharge, or repay." ("Quite" is also related to the English verb "quit," the oldest meanings of which include "to pay up" and "to set free.") "Quiten," the Middle English source of "quite," can be traced back through Anglo-French to Latin "quietus" ("quiet" or "at rest"), a word which is also an ancestor of the English word "quiet."
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
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 much prefer outdoors as well. I do the speed walk in place outside while walking the dog, too. Don’t walk in the woods...that’s where the bears are when not walking through my neighborhood.
bc the link xs provided was pulled. sorry to ruin your dinner. try to wash it out of your eyes.
I wouldn’t be going there alone if bears lived in this far south of the mountains. The mountain lion can be avoided-the things have big territories, and are loners so I stay out of the really deep woods, and if I see fresh tracks or smell/see a chewed-on deer, I back out of that trail posthaste, singing and waving my arms and a stick-and I don’t go back that way for a few days unless I’m with another hiker and armed.
Rainy here. I need to sneak out between the storms.
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