http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/ worthless word for the day Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:11:19 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1400 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1400 the worthless word for the day is: humectation [fr. L. (h)umecto, to moisten] /hyu mek TAY shun/ archaic : the act or process of moistening or wetting; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:21:13 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1399 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1399 the worthless word for the day is: Sprachgefuhl [G., fr. sprache speech + gefuhl feeling] /SHPRAKH guh fyl/ an intuitive grasp of the spirit of a language, Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:56:26 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1398 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1398 the worthless word for the day is: orexis [Gk orexis, desire] /aw REK sis/ Psych. : the aspect of mental activity concerned with emotion and desire rather Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:16:57 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1397 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1397 the worthless word for the day is: legerity [fr. F. legereté, lightness (fr. L. leviarius?] /luh JER ud ee/ agility of mind or of limb: nimbleness "This is Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:30:35 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1396 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1396 the worthless word for the day is: contrafibularities [fr. contra-, against + fibula, a bone in the lower leg] while sounding congratulatory, the elements Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:10:25 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1395 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1395 the worthless word for the day is: hackette [hack + -ette] a jocular or disparaging term for a female journalist "I, innocent hackette on my first foreign Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:10:57 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1394 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1394 the worthless word for the day is: stupex [fr. stupid] jocular, obs. : a fool "The light of nature would show that to any one but a stupex." - Charlotte Mary Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:56:57 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1393 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1393 the worthless word for the day is: frostification jocular : the process of becoming frosty (this week: nonsense and jokes) "..a certain frostification in Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:10:58 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1392 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1392 the worthless word for the day is: hedgehoggy [hedgehog + -y] having a prickly nature, of a forbidding appearance or manner; tending to arouse aversion (hence, Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:38:17 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1391 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1391 the worthless word for the day is: enturbulate [coined by L. Ron Hubbard, prob. fr. turbulent/disturbed] used as a shibboleth by Scientologists : to disturb; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:59:52 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1390 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1390 the worthless word for the day is: nomothetic [fr. Gk nomothetikos, of legislation] /nom uh THET ik/ relating to law; based in general laws "Is musicology.. a Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:46:41 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1389 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1389 the worthless word for the day is: obnixely [fr. L. obnixus: strenuous, resolute] obs. rare : earnestly, strenuously cf. obnixiously (not to be confused w. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:24:27 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1388 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1388 the worthless word for the day is: pernickety [origin unknown] chiefly Brit. : characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; fussy, Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:16:45 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1387 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1387 the worthless word for the day is: omniscian [fr. L. omniscius + -an] obs. rare : a person who knows, or professes to know, everything "[A]nd say not but Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:56:47 GMT wwftd master http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1386 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/message/1386 the worthless word for the day is: myrmidonize [myrmidon + -ize] obs. rare : to make hard, to harden "Besides, she hath steeled my soft impressive heart, and