September 30th, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
Altruistic (which will always reminds me of Altruistic, the theme that I use on my Facebook proxy site) is the word of the day? week? month?.. anyway, I heard this word while watching House Episode 2 of Season 6 (Epic Fail) when ‘the one with the big nose’ (as House puts it) said that he resigns… Foreman said that he took House’s job to save their job… “How altruistic of you…”..
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September 6th, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
Tila Tequila hospitalized after altercation with NFL Player boyfriend…
Mga kahulugan ng altercation na nasa Web sa wikang Ingles:
* affray: noisy quarrel
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altercation
* altercate – quarrel: have a disagreement over something; “We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America”; “These two fellows are always …
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* altercate – To argue, quarrel or wrangle with someone
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/altercate
June 19th, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
“One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.”
It defines Snollygoster as “a clever, unscrupulous person.”
Snollygoster is one of the affectionate and fantastic words that originated in the fast-growing US of the nineteenth century, but nowadays it hardly used
Related searches:
snollygoster definition, cash for clunkers, geraldo rivera, neil cavuto, cash for clunkers bill
April 16th, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
Found this word, Emergent on one of the request we got at work:
SUper-big-server is new server for SBS. how come my account was missed in the jumpstart. please help to create my account. this is kind of emergent. thanks.
Yeah, yeah, i didn’t know the meaning of Emergent then… I even made fun of the guy and said that emergent is a combination of emergency and urgent.. apparently Emergent really do exists..
Definitions of emergent on the Web:
* occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action; “emergent repair of an aorta”
* coming into existence; “an emergent republic”
Oh hell, that’s another vocabulary lesson for me..
April 6th, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
have one’s back to the wall to be in a defensive
position. (Informal. See also push
someone to the wall.) He’ll have to give
in. He has his back to the wall. How can
I bargain when I have my back on the wall?
April 1st, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
A Chip on one’s shoulder.. nice one.. not just a new word for our vocabular but an idiom.. Here is where I read it from (tonight at least)
I always wonder how people DON’T see Nathan when he comes down after flying. There were some cool moments between Nathan and Claire as they hid out in Mexico for a night while figuring out what to do. Just as I was irked at Claire for her “I’m going to go take a walk” line (What?!?! Stroll down the street in Mexico just because … ?), she came in with a great gesture, selling her necklace for cash. The bonding done between Claire and Nathan is the most poignant of any this episode, maybe this season. Claire’s always had this chip on her shoulder when dealing with Nathan, and we got to see why. Letting Claire be a teenager instead of a crime-fighting know-it-all is a great move sometimes, and the moment she and Nathan shared in the hotel was nice.
Definition?
GoEnglish.com Pocket English Idioms
Today’s Idiom = “A Chip On Your Shoulder”
www.GoEnglish.com
A Chip On Your Shoulder ( angry because of what happened in the past … )
“a chip on your shoulder”
“a chip on your shoulder”
A person who has “a chip on his shoulder” is angry because of some thing that happened in the past. Example: “He lost his game this morning, and now he has a chip on his shoulder.” It is easy for a person to get in a fight when he has a chip on his shoulder, because he is already angry about something else. Example: “Watch out for that guy, he’s got a chip on his shoulder.” To start a fight, men used to put chips of wood on their shoulder and challenge others to “try to knock it off”. Example: “What’s bothering that guy?” Reply: “Nothing. He’s just got a chip on the shoulder.” Example: “Tom had a tough time growing up, so he’s got a bit of a chip on his shoulder.” You can use the definite article (“the”) which sounds more general (“a chip on the shoulder”), but more often people use the personal pronoun (“his”, “her”, “their”) to say that that specific person has “a chip on his (her, their) shoulder.”
February 27th, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
The next episode of LOST is called “LaFleur”.. That word sounded familiar but I can’t recall the place or site or anything that I come across with that word – LaFleur.
Anyway, one thing is certain it is the next LOST episode… I checked Google Dictionary and it says nothing on it.. But wikipedia identified who LaFleur was:
Guy Damien Lafleur, OC, CQ, (born September 20, 1951, in Thurso, Quebec), is a former professional ice hockey player and is widely regarded as one of the most naturally gifted and popular players ever to play professional ice hockey. Between 1971 and 1991, he played for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Quebec Nordiques in an NHL career spanning 17 seasons and five Stanley Cup championships.
Anyway, Let’s all Watch LOST Episode LaFleur Online this coming wednesday!
February 4th, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
..That your mother was a sick, infantile woman? Or that it was a mistake to ever had a child with here?
That was the line Gabriel’s father (Sylar) when Sylar asked why he abandoned them when he was a child.
January 22nd, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
“It’s Frisking baby!”
Our vocabulary building word for tonight is ‘frisk’ or ‘frisking’! It’s Frisking baby! Sort of sounds like Jim Carrey or Austin Power line huh? Yeah, baby yeah… but it’s not.. completely different.
Frisking is all about searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs; “he gave the suspect a quick frisk”, for example.
I saw the word today at the mall, the place where I work… It says.. We’ll be Frisking and searching your bag for security purpose.
January 18th, 2009 by Build Vocabulary
Vocabulary building time! I had to pause 24’s Season 7 Episode 3 for this quickie post… Capitulate..
“So, unless I order our forces to stand down I’ll be condemning innoscent Americans to death. And if we capitulate, thousand of Sangalans will be slaughtered.”
That’s the line spoken by the President.
