Today's Word "reticent"
reticent \RET-ih-suhnt\ (adjective) - 1 : Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative. 2 : Restrained or reserved in style. 3 : Reluctant; unwilling. "But poor Harry little knew the difficulty of reticence when the heart is full. He had intended to be very reticent when he came up to London..." -- Anthony Trollope, 'Mr. Scarborough's Family' Reticent comes from the present participle of Latin reticere, "to keep silent," from re- + tacere, "to be silent."
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
GRAND PREHISPANIC COCOON, COROZAL SPA PROMOTION
ATTENTION ALL TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF CCC AND CJC
BRENDA´S RECREATIONAL CLUB OUR BRANCH OF PREHISPANICO IS PLEASE TO OFFER ALL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF CCC AND CJC A SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON MASSAGES FROM TODAY UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER, 2009. EVERYDAY AND ANYTIME!!! YOU CAN GET $10.00 OFF OUR MASSAGES. THIS IS A PROMOTION YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS!!!
CALL TODAY TO MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT. WE ARE OPENED FROM 8AM TO 6PM MONDAYS TO WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS TO SUNDAYS!!
OUR TELEPHONE NUMBERS ARE 422 0259 AND 607 8315
OUR TELEPHONE NUMBERS ARE 422 0259 AND 607 8315
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
HOMER, THE POET
(Dates of birth and death unknown)
Very little is known about Homer, save for the fact that he was blind and is believed to have been born in what is now western Turkey. His name is Greek for "hostage," which may mean he was descended from prisoners of war. He is best known for his epic poems "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," which may have been told on the spur of the moment from fragments of pre-existing stories. He is believed to have had many students and disciples who, while very few are known by name, became poets in their own rights after his death.
Very little is known about Homer, save for the fact that he was blind and is believed to have been born in what is now western Turkey. His name is Greek for "hostage," which may mean he was descended from prisoners of war. He is best known for his epic poems "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," which may have been told on the spur of the moment from fragments of pre-existing stories. He is believed to have had many students and disciples who, while very few are known by name, became poets in their own rights after his death.
Friday, August 28, 2009
GRAND SEPTEMBER PROMOTION FROM MS B AND PREHISPANIC COCOON, COROZAL
ATTENTION ALL TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF CCC AND CJC
BRENDA´S RECREATIONAL CLUB OUR BRANCH OF PREHISPANICO IS PLEASE TO OFFER ALL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF CCC AND CJC A SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON MASSAGES FROM TODAY UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER, 2009. EVERYDAY AND ANYTIME!!! YOU CAN GET $10.00 OFF OUR MASSAGES. THIS IS A PROMOTION YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS!!!
CALL TODAY TO MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT. WE ARE OPENED FROM 8AM TO 6PM MONDAYS TO WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS TO SUNDAYS!!
OUR TELEPHONE NUMBERS ARE 422 0259 AND 607 8315
OUR TELEPHONE NUMBERS ARE 422 0259 AND 607 8315
GET YOUR MASSAGE DONE BY NONE OTHER THAN THE CARING, LOVING MS B!!!!!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
VOCABULARY FOR AUG 27, 2009
Today's Word "proclivity"
proclivity \pro-KLIV-uh-tee\ (noun) - A natural inclination; predisposition. "Nothing has emerged, except a marked proclivity for the gibbet; for he took great delight in stringing up renegade Frenchmen whom he surprised in the ranks of the English or caught in towns which showed signs of disloyalty to the King." Proclivity comes from Latin proclivitas, from proclivis, "inclined," from pro-, "forward" + clivus, "a slope."
proclivity \pro-KLIV-uh-tee\ (noun) - A natural inclination; predisposition. "Nothing has emerged, except a marked proclivity for the gibbet; for he took great delight in stringing up renegade Frenchmen whom he surprised in the ranks of the English or caught in towns which showed signs of disloyalty to the King." Proclivity comes from Latin proclivitas, from proclivis, "inclined," from pro-, "forward" + clivus, "a slope."
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
VOCABULARY FOR AUG 26, 2009
Today's Word "titivate"
titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\ (transitive and intransitive verb) - To smarten up; to spruce up. "I decided tonight it was time to put away all the black mourning clothes, cut my hair, and titivate myself a bit, as Blackie so aptly calls it." -- Barbara Taylor Bradford, 'Emma's Secret' Titivate is perhaps from tidy + the quasi-Latin ending -vate. When the word originally came into the language, it was written tidivate or tiddivate. The noun form is titivation.
titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\ (transitive and intransitive verb) - To smarten up; to spruce up. "I decided tonight it was time to put away all the black mourning clothes, cut my hair, and titivate myself a bit, as Blackie so aptly calls it." -- Barbara Taylor Bradford, 'Emma's Secret' Titivate is perhaps from tidy + the quasi-Latin ending -vate. When the word originally came into the language, it was written tidivate or tiddivate. The noun form is titivation.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
VOCABULARY FOR AUG 25, 2009
Today's Word "lexicography"
lexicography \lek-suh-KAH-gruh-fee\ (noun) - 1 : The writing or compiling of dictionaries; the editing or making of dictionaries. 2 : The principles and practices applied to writing dictionaries. "I am of course stopping short still of the needs of practical lexicography in one conspicuous respect : I am attending only to the cognitive side..." -- W.V. Quine, 'Theories and Things' Lexicography is derived from the Greek lexicon (biblion), a word- or phrase-book (from lexis, a phrase, a word) + graphein, to write. A lexicographer (thought to be formed on the pattern of geographer) is a compiler or writer of a dictionary -- as defined by Samuel Johnson in his own Dictionary of the English Language, "a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge."
lexicography \lek-suh-KAH-gruh-fee\ (noun) - 1 : The writing or compiling of dictionaries; the editing or making of dictionaries. 2 : The principles and practices applied to writing dictionaries. "I am of course stopping short still of the needs of practical lexicography in one conspicuous respect : I am attending only to the cognitive side..." -- W.V. Quine, 'Theories and Things' Lexicography is derived from the Greek lexicon (biblion), a word- or phrase-book (from lexis, a phrase, a word) + graphein, to write. A lexicographer (thought to be formed on the pattern of geographer) is a compiler or writer of a dictionary -- as defined by Samuel Johnson in his own Dictionary of the English Language, "a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge."
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
GRAND PREHISPANIC, COROZAL SPA PROMOTION
ATTENTION ALL TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF CCC AND CJC
BRENDA´S RECREATIONAL CLUB OUR BRANCH OF PREHISPANICO IS PLEASE TO OFFER ALL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF CCC AND CJC A SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON MASSAGES FROM TODAY UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER, 2009. EVERYDAY AND ANYTIME!!! YOU CAN GET $10.00 OFF OUR MASSAGES. THIS IS A PROMOTION YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS!!!
CALL TODAY TO MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT. WE ARE OPENED FROM 8AM TO 8PM MONDAYS TO WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS TO SUNDAYS!!
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Monday, August 17, 2009
VOCABULARY FOR AUG 17, 2009
Today's Word
"Unique"
unique \yu-NEEK\ (adjective) - Sole, one of a kind, without equal or match. "Going out with Mary Ellen to the county sausage-eating contest was an almost unique experience in my life." Today's word comes to us, as so many others, from Latin "unicus" via Old French. The underlying root is oi-no- from which English "one" is derived and the reason the article "a" sometimes has an [n] in it (an apple), is that it was originally "one" before all nouns. The Latin variant un-us "one" appears in "union," "unite," "unit," "unanimous," "unicorn," and "universe." People often complain about the (mis)use of this word in the comparative (more unique, most unique). Many dictionaries claim that this reflects a new meaning of the word: "rare, unusual." In fact, the confusion is produced by a peculiarity of the comparative degree of adjectives with a fixed, absolute sense like "unique." Comparison is allowed with these adjectives but the meaning is "more nearly X" ("more nearly unique") and not simply "more X." Notice this is what "more infinite," "more absent," even "fuller" mean. "Fuller" doesn't mean "more than full" but "more nearly full." So, "unique" has not taken on a new meaning; the comparative has, offering a different interpretation for absolute adjectives.
"Unique"
unique \yu-NEEK\ (adjective) - Sole, one of a kind, without equal or match. "Going out with Mary Ellen to the county sausage-eating contest was an almost unique experience in my life." Today's word comes to us, as so many others, from Latin "unicus" via Old French. The underlying root is oi-no- from which English "one" is derived and the reason the article "a" sometimes has an [n] in it (an apple), is that it was originally "one" before all nouns. The Latin variant un-us "one" appears in "union," "unite," "unit," "unanimous," "unicorn," and "universe." People often complain about the (mis)use of this word in the comparative (more unique, most unique). Many dictionaries claim that this reflects a new meaning of the word: "rare, unusual." In fact, the confusion is produced by a peculiarity of the comparative degree of adjectives with a fixed, absolute sense like "unique." Comparison is allowed with these adjectives but the meaning is "more nearly X" ("more nearly unique") and not simply "more X." Notice this is what "more infinite," "more absent," even "fuller" mean. "Fuller" doesn't mean "more than full" but "more nearly full." So, "unique" has not taken on a new meaning; the comparative has, offering a different interpretation for absolute adjectives.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
STILL IN MY HEART
As many of you prepare for the new school year, I take this time to write once more to encourage each student and teacher to come openheartedly, poen mindedly and eagerly to learn, to teach and to be together. Once again I cannot stop saying how much your school years are the best years of your lives, students. Ask any person who is nolonger a student. They crave those days now they are gone forever. And another thing. Stop waiting for tomorrow for the good grades. They will reflex sooner or later when you need that really good job that everyone is aiming for. So, start today to work hard. Do assignments on time and study hard for quizzes, tests and examinations. Do today what will bring you success tomorrow.
I love you all. I miss you all. I am with you always. In your actions, you r thoughts and your happiness. I am in your classroom in the spirit. I am after all the white witch of 139 and I see all, hear all and feel all. Just like I did last year!!! Times have changed and things have happened but LOVE and my BEST WISHES for you all will never change.
God Bless you all.
Yours always, Ms B
I love you all. I miss you all. I am with you always. In your actions, you r thoughts and your happiness. I am in your classroom in the spirit. I am after all the white witch of 139 and I see all, hear all and feel all. Just like I did last year!!! Times have changed and things have happened but LOVE and my BEST WISHES for you all will never change.
God Bless you all.
Yours always, Ms B
Saturday, August 15, 2009
VOCABULARY FOR AUG 15, 2009
Today's Word "Crabwise"
crabwise \KRAB-wyz\ (adjective) - 1 : Sideways. 2 : In a cautious or roundabout manner. "Always cautious and slow to move in new directions, Esther's company was moving crabwise towards modernity." From the sideways movement of crabs.
crabwise \KRAB-wyz\ (adjective) - 1 : Sideways. 2 : In a cautious or roundabout manner. "Always cautious and slow to move in new directions, Esther's company was moving crabwise towards modernity." From the sideways movement of crabs.
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