Word For The Day, Thursday, August 7, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/7/03 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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tenacious \ten*a*shus\, adjective
tenaciously; adverb
tenaciousness; noun

1. Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view.
2. Holding together firmly; cohesive:
3. Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive
4. Tending to retain; retentive:
5. Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. --Ainsworth.
6. Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn..

They are free men, tenacious of their liberties and alert to lurking danger. - Ray V Denslow

Etymology: [From Latin ten x, ten c-, holding fast, from ten re, to hold. See ten- in Indo-European Roots.]

[hobbes1]

but the bishop said that the fruit has led AN EXEMPLARY LIFE.... i screamed out loud at that. EXEMPLARY to leave your wife and two kids for another man that you cannot marry, but must live with in sin? THAT IS an EXEMPLARY LIFE? i was flabbergasted.

LOL...I was doing that exact same thing.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Most call him The Hag.

[TheGrimReaper]

That was the 2nd time Haggard has been on O'Reilly... first time a couple of weeks ago - he was almost totally incoherent then as well.
It must be hell to be old AND perpetually pickled.

[Texan5]

I saw part of that. Hubby laughed out loud at the "exemplary" remark, and yelled "What part of the fact that he is committing a mortal sin don't you understand"?

[secret garden]

That print was miniscule when it was posted and I don't have a magnifier on my screen. Plus, I am sleep-deprived(who isn't?) and not optically enhanced. So there.