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Melee
Posted by: foxrafer on: June 2, 2009
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melee \MAY-lay\ | noun 1 : a confused struggle; especially : a hand-to-hand fight among several people I love this word. It sounds so refined yet it defines something with no refinement at all. And wouldn’t you rather be in a melee than a brawl? It makes you think you were having some kind of [...]
Lovely as a summer day
Posted by: foxrafer on: May 31, 2009
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With air hopefully free of smoke. © Plenz; please click for original image Today is World No Tobacco Day, and this year’s theme is “Tobacco Health Warnings”. If cigarette packs really looked like the one in that picture I think people would have to think twice about continuing to smoke.
Obnubilate
Posted by: foxrafer on: May 25, 2009
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obnubilate \ahb-NOO-buh-layt\ | verb 1 : becloud, obscure This is one of those words that sounds like what it means. Possibly because it reminds me of obfuscate. Whatever, it’s a nice word to add to one’s vocabulary. Although I think you’d probably sound a bit pretentious if you used it in daily speech. Or as [...]
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