Month 4 – Word of the day 16
Vaulting Horse An apparatus that consists of a padded leather-covered rectangular form, 1600 to 1630 mm long and 350mm wide, used in vaulting competitions in gymnastics.
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Month 4- Word of the day 15
The term private eye alludes simply to private i (short for an investigator). You may also call such a person a tec (short for detective), a gumshoe (from a quiet, rubber-soled footwear), a sleuth (from an Old Norse word for “trail”), a shamus (of Yiddish origin), or a hawkshaw (from a detective in the 1863 play The…
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Month 4- Word of the day 14
Sardonic means mocking “Catch me if you can!” cried the felon with a sardonic laugh.
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Month 4- Word of the day 13
Injunction means order For failing to follow the injunction, Sam was slapped with a fine of $5000.
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Month 4- Word of the day 12
Truculent means cruel or harsh The witness was unscathed by the prosecutor’s truculent remarks.
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Music Mondays # 16
This song is dedicated to Kat . An evergreen number and also one of my favourites. Enjoy 🙂
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Month 4- Word of the day 11
Beguile means deceive Don’t let the mermaids beguile you with their siren songs.
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Month 4- Word of the Day 10
Calumny means character attack I f you can’t win a debate with reason, try outright calumny.
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Did you know ?
Dark Doings The moody Hamlet is often called the melancholy Dane. Melancholy means gloomy, but it literally refers to “black bile.” You might recognise its root parts in melan ( a dark pigment) and chole (gall or ill temper). In medieval times, bodily “humours” were thought to influence our moods, black bile being one of these…
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Month 4- Word of the Day 9
Sully means to define or tarnish or ‘Sully‘ the movie, an upcoming 2016 American biographical drama film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Todd Komarnicki. It would take only one rumour to sully the mayor’s reputation.
