Tidus44 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 cavil; to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily; to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus44 Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 psephology; the study of elections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus44 Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 peripeteia; a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus44 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 kakistocracy; government by the worst persons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus44 Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 recondite - dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter; beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding. A good word for Nov 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus44 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 oniomania; an uncontrollable desire to buy things. Proving that such a thing does exist, (or perhaps just that people are stupid), people paid $5.00 to the Cards Against Humanity website for nothing. Cards Against Humanity made $71,145.00 on Black Friday selling nothing. Yes they did donate some of the 71K raised to charities, but over 14000 people paid $5.00 to a website that told them they were buying “nothing”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus44 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Looking forward to a awesome 2016. panglossian; characterized by or given to extreme optimism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roamwild Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 syzygy ('sizijee')The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun. "the planets were aligned in syzygy" a pair of connected or corresponding things. "animus and anima represent a supreme pair of opposites, the syzygyearly 17th century: via late Latin from Greek suzugia, from suzugos ‘yoked, paired,’ from sun- ‘with, together’ + the stem of zeugnunai ‘to yoke.’ Most people I tell this to don't believe it's a word! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus44 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Fell through the floor at work, went from the second to the first in a bird flapping swan dive and landed on my side on an old mattress. Went back to the station to finish the shift but HR cited me for presenteeism and sent me off to the hospital. Bruise on my side and shoulder, but nothing to get all in a huff about. presenteeism; the practice of coming to work despite illness, injury, anxiety, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus44 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 The 3 R's of an election year; rabble-rouser; a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public, usually for his or her own interests. rodomontade; boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk. rupestrine; living or growing on or among rocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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