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The Word of the Day for May 01, 2008 is:
salad days ? SAL-ud-DAYZ ? noun plural
: time of youthful inexperience or indiscretion; also : an early flourishing period : heyday
Example Sentence:
My grandfather loves to reminisce about his salad days in the small Nebraska town where he grew up.
Did you know?
A good salad is fresh, crisp, and usually green. Those attributes are often associated (in both vegetables and people) with vitality and immaturity. The first English writer known to use "salad days" to associate the fresh greenness of salad with the vigor and recklessness of youth was William Shakespeare. In Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra praises Marc Antony's valor and demands that her serving woman do the same. When the servant instead praises her former consort, Caesar, Cleopatra threatens her -- until the woman notes that she is only echoing Cleopatra's own effusive past praise of Caesar. Cleopatra's reply marks the first English use of "salad days":
"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then."

Choose numbers that make the arithmetic as easy as possible. Do not plug in numbers that appear in the answer choices or in the question. Do not plug in zero or one. Do not plug in the same number for two different variables. If the question is about money (dollars and cents), choose a multiple of 100. If the question is about time (seconds, minutes, hours), choose a multiple of 60. Even if you love algebra, Plugging In is easier and more foolproof on the GRE.

Do plug in when the question has variables in the answer choices. Do plug in on questions that ask for something in terms of something else. Do not plug in numbers that appear in the answer choices or the question. Do not plug in zero or one. Do not plug in the same number for two different variables. Do plug in numbers that make the math easier!

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The Word of the Day for April 07, 2008 is: luftmensch ? LOOFT-mensh (the "OO" is as in "foot") ? noun : an impractical contemplative person having no definite business or income Example Sentence: I worry that my nephew, who has several advanced degrees but no practical skills, will be a luftmensch all his life. Did you know? Are you someone who always seems to have your head in the clouds? Do you have trouble getting down to the lowly business of earning a living? If so, you may deserve to be labeled a "luftmensch." That airy appellation is an adaptation of the Yiddish "luftmentsh," which breaks down into "luft" (a Germanic root meaning "air" that is also related to the English words "loft" and "lofty") plus "mentsh," meaning "human being." "Luftmensch" was first introduced to English prose in 1907, when Israel Zangwill wrote, "The word 'Luftmensch' flew into Barstein's mind. Nehemiah was not an earth-man. . .. He was an air-man, floating on facile wings."

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The Word of the Day for March 24, 2008 is: potentate ? POH-tun-tayt ? noun : ruler, sovereign; broadly : one who wields great power or sway Example Sentence: His work as a high-level diplomat frequently brings him into contact with foreign potentates. Did you know? "Potentate" has been wielding its power in English since the 15th century. It comes from the Late Latin "potentatus," which in turn was formed from the Latin "potent-," meaning "powerful." Other descendants of "potent-" in English include "potent" itself, "impotent," and "omnipotent," as well as the archaic "armipotent" and very rare "bellipotent" (meaning, respectively, "mighty in battle" and "mighty in war"). Even "power" and "powerful" can be traced back to "potent-."

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The Word of the Day for March 19, 2008 is: slapdash ? SLAP-dash ? adjective : haphazard, slipshod Example Sentence: Brett was sharply reprimanded for his slapdash reporting after he submitted a story that omitted some important facts to his editor at the newspaper. Did you know? The first known use of "slapdash" in English came in 1679 from the British poet and dramatist John Dryden, who used it as an adverb in his play The kind keeper; or Mr. Limberham: "Down I put the notes slap-dash." The Oxford English Dictionary defines this sense in part as "[w]ith, or as with, a slap and a dash," perhaps suggesting the notion of an action (such as painting) performed with quick, imprecise movements. Over 100 years later, the word acquired the adjectival sense with which we are more familiar today, describing something done in a hasty, careless, or haphazard manner.

Guate le gano a Mexico por segunda vez. 2-1 el 14 de Marzo, 2008. Me cont mi hermano Bety. Como los extrao. =)

Absinthe: only legal in EU and other countries -liqour, spirit -Prep of drink is classy: absinthe, sugar melting on spoon w/ water, and water -called the green fairy -uses three hards: green anise from Spain, plant from Proverence and wheat barley -New Orleans, antique bar ware and there's a museum there too -fineliving.com/greatcocktails -

So you're in an "open relationship". Whatever. It doesn't work, trust me. =) Plus she gets the shitty end of the stick not you. Traduccin.... mejor tu te encargas a encontrar a alquien q te traduzca lo q te ecrib.

The Word of the Day for March 11, 2008 is: repertoire ? REP-er-twar ? noun 1 : a list of plays, operas, pieces, or parts which a company or performer is prepared to present *2 : a supply of skills or devices possessed by a person Example Sentence: "She is a pastry chef whose repertoire ranges from chocolate-filled croissants to old-fashioned scones and chocolate chip cookies."(Linda Giuca, Hartford Courant [Connecticut], January 31, 2008) Did you know? The Late Latin noun "repertorium," meaning "list," has given us two words that can be used to speak of the broad range of things that someone or something can do. One is "repertory," perhaps most commonly known as a word for a company that presents several different plays, operas, or other works at one theater, or the theater where such works are performed. "Repertoire," which comes from "repertorium" via French, once meant the same thing as "repertory" but later came to refer to the range of skills that a person has under his or her belt, such as the different pitches a baseball pitcher can throw or the particular dishes that are a chef's specialty. *Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

The Word of the Day for March 09, 2008 is: hibernaculum ? hy-ber-NAK-yuh-lum ? noun : a shelter occupied during the winter by a dormant animal (as an insect or reptile) Example Sentence: The park ranger explained that a good hibernaculum might be used by many different snakes year after year. Did you know? If you're afraid of snakes or bats, you probably won't enjoy thinking about a hibernaculum, where hundreds, even thousands, of these creatures might be passing the wintry months. Other creatures also use hibernacula, though many of these tend to be a bit inconspicuous. The word "hibernaculum" has been used for the burrow of a woodchuck, for instance, as well as for a cozy caterpillar cocoon attached to a wintry twig, and for the spot in which a frog has buried itself in the mud. Hibernacula are all around us and have been around for a long, long time, but we have only called them such since 1789. In case you are wondering, "hibernate" didn't come into being until the beginning of the 19th century. Both words come from Latin "hibernare," meaning "to pass the winter."

The Word of the Day for March 05, 2008 is: errant ? AIR-unt ? adjective 1 : traveling or given to traveling 2 *a : straying outside the proper path or bounds b : moving about aimlessly or irregularly c : behaving wrongly Example Sentence: "'Move! Move! Move!' cried Helen, chasing him from corner to corner with a chair as though he were an errant hen." (Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, 1915) Did you know? "Errant" has a split history. It comes from Anglo-French, a language in which two confusingly similar verbs with identical spellings ("errer") coexisted. One "errer" meant "to err" and comes from the Latin "errare," meaning "to wander" or "to err." The second "errer" meant "to travel," and traces to the Latin "iter," meaning "road" or "journey." Both "errer" homographs contributed to the development of "errant," which not surprisingly has to do with both moving about and being mistaken. A "knight-errant" travels around in search of adventures. Cowboys round up "errant calves." An "errant child" is one who misbehaves. (You might also see "arrant" occasionally -- it's a word that originated as an alteration of "errant" and that usually means "extreme" or "shameless.")

The Word of the Day for March 04, 2008 is: clat ? ay-KLAH ? noun 1 : ostentatious display : publicity *2 : dazzling effect : brilliance 3 a : brilliant or conspicuous success b : praise, applause Example Sentence: The young actor played the role with such clat that he was nominated for several awards. Did you know? "?clat" burst onto the scene in English in the 17th century. The word derives from French, where it can mean "splinter" (the French idiom "voler en clats" means "to fly into pieces") as well as "burst" ("un clat du rire" means "a burst of laughter"), among other things. The "burst" sense is reflected in the earliest English sense of the word, meaning "ostentatious display or publicity." This sense found its own idiomatic usage in the phrase "to make an clat," which at one time meant "to create a sensation." By the 1740s, "clat" took on the additional meaning of "applause or acclamation," as in "The performer was received with great clat." *Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

The Word of the Day for March 03, 2008 is: obverse ? AHB-verss ? noun *1 : the side of a coin or currency note bearing the chief device and lettering; broadly : a front or principal surface 2 : a counterpart having the opposite orientation or force; also : opposite Example Sentence: The U.S. Mint has begun releasing a new series of $1 coins, each showing the name and likeness of a former U.S. president on the obverse. Did you know? Heads or tails? If you called heads, "obverse" is the word for you. Since the 17th century, we've been using "obverse" for the front side of coins (usually, the side depicting the head or bust of a ruler). The opposite of this sense of "obverse" is "reverse," the back or "tails" side of a coin. Since the 19th century, "obverse" has also had the extended meaning "an opposing counterpart" or "opposite." Additionally, it can be an adje

The Word of the Day for March 01, 2008 is: Luddite ? LUH-dyte ? noun : one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change Example Sentence: Luddites might argue that the modern electronic age is too impersonal, but they cannot deny that it has brought new conveniences and information to the masses. Did you know? Luddites could be considered the first victims of corporate downsizing. The Luddite movement began in the vicinity of Nottingham, England, toward the end of 1811 when textile mill workers rioted for the destruction of the new machinery that was slowly replacing them. Their name is of uncertain origin, but it may be connected to a (probably mythical) person known as Ned Ludd. According to an unsubstantiated account in George Pellew's Life of Lord Sidmouth (1847), Ned Ludd was a Leicestershire villager of the late 1700s who, in a fit of insane rage, rushed into a stocking weaver's house and destroyed his equipment; subsequently, his name was proverbially connected with machinery destruction. With the onset of the information age, "Luddite" gained a broader sense describing anyone who shuns new technology.

The Word of the Day for March 01, 2008 is: Luddite ? LUH-dyte ? noun : one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change Example Sentence: Luddites might argue that the modern electronic age is too impersonal, but they cannot deny that it has brought new conveniences and information to the masses. Did you know? Luddites could be considered the first victims of corporate downsizing. The Luddite movement began in the vicinity of Nottingham, England, toward the end of 1811 when textile mill workers rioted for the destruction of the new machinery that was slowly replacing them. Their name is of uncertain origin, but it may be connected to a (probably mythical) person known as Ned Ludd. According to an unsubstantiated account in George Pellew's Life of Lord Sidmouth (1847), Ned Ludd was a Leicestershire villager of the late 1700s who, in a fit of insane rage, rushed into a stocking weaver's house and destroyed his equipment; subsequently, his name was proverbially connected with machinery destruction. With the onset of the information age, "Luddite" gained a broader sense describing anyone who shuns new technology.