;Posted on 07/22/2013 5:44:19 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 7/22/13
;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".
welter; verb, noun
1. to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea. 2. to roll, writhe, or tumble about; wallow, as animals (often followed by about ): pigs weltering about happily in the mud. 3. to lie bathed in or be drenched in something, especially blood. 4. to become deeply or extensively involved, associated, entangled, etc.: to welter in setbacks, confusion, and despair. noun 5. a confused mass; a jumble or muddle: a welter of anxious faces. 6. a state of commotion, turmoil, or upheaval: the welter that followed the surprise attack. 7. a rolling, tossing, or tumbling about, as or as if by the sea, waves, or wind: They found the shore through the mighty welter.
Etymology: 1250–1300; Middle English, frequentative (see -er6 ) of welten to roll, Old English weltan; cognate with Middle Dutch welteren, Low German weltern to roll
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....
Here is my example with WFTD.
Everyone was weltering in the Twitters yesterday, over Geraldo's topless selfie. hilarity ensued. While he has supposedly [ahem] yanked the tweet, i am sure that it will live on in infamy.
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
No pushing at the door please!
Greatest thing since Weiner’s escapades.
It’s weinable.
The weiner wars are on...
So, how were the weltering waves of Amelia Earhardt?
I weltered my latest illness, almost feel normal this morning.
sad when it’s the only thing they know how to do.
it was great. there were a few rainy afternoons towards the end of the week, but it didn’t really interfere with anything we wanted to do. hard to go back to work, and i have a lot of it sitting here looking at me.
glad you are feeling better!
It took me until Tuesday afternoon last week to really get back into motion at work.
Sarah is going to the ortho today to get all the prep work done. Thursday she gets the braces on her upper teeth.
A+++ he continues to be loathsome. At mass on Sat, they prayed for UNITY in FL, i guess bc of the trayvon verdict. I am going to market Explorer89’s idea— a tshirt that says, I am Nicole Brown Simpson....
Read Brad Thor’s latest book on the Fed Reserve this weekend. Not sure I am up to O’s blah, blah. Fiction is much better.
she will have a sore mouth for a day or two. my ortho gave them some spacers to put between their teeth for a few days to try to open up some space, but i don’t think they really do very much.
Better off with a “Creepy Ass Cracker” t-shirt.
xshub and xsbaby just picked up my pups from Petsmart Pet hotel. Can’t wait to see them when i get home. she texted me a pic of them in their “suite” there.
Detroit’s in the bankruptcy smelter
Awash in its liberal welter
So the unions’ big Libs
Are extending their fibs
As they ask for more government shelter
A++++ ridic is Detroit.
A University of Florida linebacker will have plenty of time to welter behind bars and (later) on the bench for the 1st 2 games of the season after being arrested in Houston for barking at a police dog. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3045784/posts
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