20041030 unwieldy unwieldy is a close synonym of ungainly. Unwieldy emphasizes the "difficult to handle with" part, while ungainly emphasizes the ugly part. ...
20041101 camaraderie Taste, smell, and visual enjoyment are also major contributions to the enjoyment of smoking, in addition to camaraderie with other...
20041102 i'm an egoist, not egotist. Mary bathes in the sun. Jane soaks in the bath. he's a blond. She's a blonde. Quit scampering all over the place. Stop...
20041103 eponym The term for words derived from people are called eponym. The interesting ones are those imbued into the language in usage outside of...
A Modest Proposal (for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and or making them beneficial to the...
A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from yesterday) I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on...
A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from yesterday) But my intention is very far from being confined to provide only for the children of professed...
On Nov 6, 2004, at 2:46 PM, xah lee wrote: A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from yesterday) As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many...
A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from yesterday) There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary...
A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from yesterday) I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl before twelve years old is no salable...
Words today: glutted, popish, collateral, papist. (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from...
Words today: reckon, repine, squire, thrifty, shambles,wanting (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued...
Words today: discourse, venison, deference, charge,hath (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from...
Words today: (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from yesterday) But in order to justify my friend,...
Words today: expedient, dainty, mandarins, gibbet, groat, fineries (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift ...
Words today: desponding, pine (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from yesterday) Some persons of a...
Words today: overrun, design, tithes, episcopal, curate (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from...
Words today: stock, vintners, procure (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from yesterday) Thirdly,...
Words today: emulation, mares, foal (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from yesterday) Sixthly,...
Words today: yearling, "studious of brevity", christening (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift (continued from...
Words today: expedients, curing, parsimony, prudence, temperance, industry (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift...
Words today: raiment, subsistence, overture, sustenance, inclemencies (note: they are in bold-face in the text below.) A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift ...
20041123 infirmity As researchers on aging noted in a position statement this past May, no treatment on the market today has been proved to slow human...
20041126 brunt Battleship Row was the grouping of eight battleships in port at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese launched the Attack on Pearl Harbor. These ships...
20041127 at large The suspect in a rash of thefts of surveillance cameras at local businesses was still at large Thursday, but investigators are pretty sure...
20041128 bankroll Darrell Issa, who bankrolled the recall effort and said he would run for governor, abruptly dropped out of the race on August 7 among ...
20041129 ballyhoo (AP) - Initial shares of Google Inc. were priced late Wednesday at $85, the low end of a range revised downward just hours earlier, somewhat ...
words from Arabian Nights, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton. ... Sir Richard Burton The Arabian Nights THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS (ALF LAYLAH...
words from Arabian Nights, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton. ... Then King Shahryar, having sealed the missive and given it is to the Wazir with the...
