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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. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... interlocutor\in-t&r-'lä-ky&-t&r \, n: 1 : one who takes part in dialogue or conversation 2 : a man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the end men and...

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. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... probity\'prO-b&-tE \, n: 1.adherence to the highest principles and ideals 2.Complete and confirmed integrity “He was a gentlemanly Georgian, a person of early American probity” (Mary McGrory). Etymology:Middle English probite, from Old French,...

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. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... invidious\In*vid"i*ous\, a: In*vid\"i*ous*ly, adv. -- In*vid\"i*ous*ness, n. 1. Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable. Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes. --Broome. Etymology: From...

Parent offended by lesson in vocabulary</font< Use of a word that sounds like a racial slur has landed a New Hanover County teacher in the middle of a controversy. Stephanie Bell, a fourth-grade teacher at Williams Elementary School, taught the word "niggardly" to her class last week in an effort to improve her students' vocabularies. Now, a parent wants her fired. Niggardly as defined by Webster's: adj. 1. reluctant to give or spend; stingy;miserly2. meanly or ungenerously small or scanty Although the word means stingy, Akwana Walker said it was inappropriate to use it because it sounds similar to a...