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noun tour·bil·lion tu̇r-ˈbil-yən
Popularity: Bottom 30% of words
1 : whirlwind 1
2 : a vortex especially of a whirlwind or whirlpool
The cat standing on it’s hind legs is transfixed by the tourbillion of the front loading washing machine.
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adjective im·por·tune ˌim-pər-ˈtün, -ˈtyün; im-ˈpȯr-ˌ, -chən
Popularity: Bottom 50% of words
im·por·tune·ly adverb
Each time the cabinet door opens, the cat importunes me for treats, even when the cabinet opened isn’t the one containing the cat treats. She is shameless is her attempts to get what she wants.
Bissextile Year
Noun
1. a leap year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar.
Happy extra day of February, found only in bissextile years.
Note: Today’s word of the day is two words! An extra word for an extra day.
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noun, Rhetoric.
1. the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning; punning.
2. a pun
Paronomasia seems like a word to be used to describe Fox Mulder, but it fact it describes the entertaining play on words the creators of the XFiles inserted by having an agent Miller. I tried with this one, I really did!
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verb (used with object), laved, laving.
1. to wash; bathe.
2. (of a river, sea, etc.) to flow along, against, or past; wash.
3. Obsolete. to ladle; pour or dip with a ladle.
verb (used without object), laved, laving.
4. Archaic. to bathe.
If I could I would lave myself, just one more time, in my old perfume, which is no longer being sold. I loved it so much.
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noun
1. (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
2. any interpreter of sacred mysteries or esoteric principles; mystagogue.
Mulder is a hierophant of unexplained phenomena. Scully is a hierophant of Mulder
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noun
1. a plaster for the shin or leg.
2. Informal.
The cost of the necklace was so low, a mere shinplaster, that she was suspicious of it’s origin.
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adjective
1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2. brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work.
3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.
The truculent barbs from the school bully made seventh grade excrutiating for the boy who had no idea his future was so bright.
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Vaporware
noun
1. Computer Slang. a product, especially software, that is promoted or marketed while it is still in development and that may never be produced.
Sales refused to sell the new product until they actually saw it. They had been fooled by vaporware too many times in the past. Why do business boys continue to try to fool each other?
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adjective
tending to babble, prattle; loquacious
There seem to be so many babblative people on the internet. Take some time. simmer down and enjoy the silence. Perhaps you’ll think of something profound to say.
note: this is, by far, my favorite word of the day to date!
Living Reflections 