;Posted on 05/12/2014 5:33:22 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 5/12/14
;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".
screed; noun
1. a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe. 2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing. 3. Building Trades. a. a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface. b. a wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like. c. a board or metal strip dragged across a freshly poured concrete slab to give it its proper level. 4. British Dialect . a fragment or shred, as of cloth. 5. Scot. a. a tear or rip, especially in cloth. b. a drinking bout.
Etymology: 1275–1325; Middle English screde torn fragment, irregular (with sc- for sh- ) representing Old English scrēade shred
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.
Yesterday, at xsboy's college commencement, we were subjected to a full-on leftist screed loosed by the editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick.
It was beyond offensive, and honestly i don't think that Hillary or Biden [who we feared might be the commencement speaker] would have been this bad. As one of the comments notes, he left no leftwing trope untouched. No pushing at the door please!
i am beyond exhausted from the graduation weekend, but that doesn’t mean i am not going to sit here and expect some decent homework from you layabouts. Hope everyone had a lovely mother’s day yesterday.
Oh how I do love to hear the little frogs in the spring...
“screeeeeeeeeed”
Were y’all the ones booing him?
The anti-Bylsma screeds are approaching a crescendo.
Rocky Balboa fought Apollo Screed in Rocky the Second.
And Elaine can’t coach power plays in NY.
we sat silently. there were some Jamaicans sitting behind us who were cheering both the Trayvon Martin references as well as the LGBT crap. i nearly had to sit on xsbaby to keep her from making a scene. xshub was immediately tweeting about how offensive it was, right from the scene.
those people are FOS, yinz are lucky to have him! A+++
He must want to be president too much, cuz it’s affecting his brain. A+++
I would have been doing the audible Oh, please.
the man has ZERO credibility, who is going to buy that? A+++
that is PERFECT!!! A+++++
well i did make audible comments at certain times, like when he said that Catholics invented waterboarding, i said oh and there are no CATHOLICS in this crowd, i guess. and then he made some remark about republicans being racist and i said, and i guess there are no REPUBLICANS In this audience either. i mean, honestly, they are going to just vent their vile BS and do not give a dang who they are talking to.
They lose tomorrow and he’s gone. There is no excuse for the bi-polar play of the team.
then i pray to God WE get him and xsbaby will just have to get over her aversion!
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