http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/ a-word-a-day English study Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:41:37 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/623 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/623 hostel While not quite new, the concept is recent - largely confined to Twenty-First Century films such as “Saw” and its sequels, and Roth's earlier films Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:14:33 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/622 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/622 beachhead Older (age 15 and up), more hard-core gamers will want that Xbox↗. The machine is Microsoft's beachhead in the console wars, and I predict it will Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:15:22 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/621 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/621 daredevil Broken Arrow↗, a bomb-ticking chase movie about a daredevil pilot (Travolta) who steals two nuclear weapons, shows how easily the two cinemas can Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:33:14 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/620 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/620 moonshine More recent projects stir the imagination, even if the field is still young. Computer programs have generated over one thousand conjectures in graph Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:09:01 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/619 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/619 slink At the man's heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the proper wolfdog, gray-coated and without any visible or temperamental difference from its Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:55:31 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/618 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/618 heartland The Usenet newsgroups↗ are, in their way, the perfect antidote to modern mass media. Rather than catering to the lowest common denominator with Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:49:58 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/617 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/617 warmonger “The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:30:24 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/616 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/616 whipsaw For the big three online services — CompuServe↗, Prodigy↗ and America Online↗ — this was the year it all fell into place. The computers were Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:31:47 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/615 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/615 threadbare The theater was moribund, subsisting on threadbare melodramas as vacuous as they were popular,... ? threadbare = Worn out; clothing that show Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:47:59 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/614 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/614 backlash Now there may be a new force for change. Students who are tired of paying $20,000 a year to have someone throw up on their shoes have launched a Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:31:18 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/613 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/613 gadfly Here he plays Cyrano↗, gadfly and rabble-rouser, man about town, friend of some, envied by many, despised by a powerful few, and hopelessly, oh, most Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:48:00 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/612 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/612 verisimilitude Verisimilitude in its literary context is defined as the fact or quality of being verisimilar, the appearance of being true or real; likeness or Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:39:55 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/611 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/611 underfoot It is delicious, like the twisted little apples that grow in the orchards of winesburg. In the fall one walks in the orchards and the ground is hard Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:42:24 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/610 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/610 pell-mell soldiers retreat in a pell-mell fashion pell-mell = with undue hurry and confusion. ☄ pell-mell soldiers retreat in a pell-mell fashion pell-mell = Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:52:27 GMT xah lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/609 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordy-english/message/609 avant-garde the Joker character in Batman (1989 film)↗ considers himself to be an avant-garde artist. Xah Lee avant-garde = Characterized by the use of