We’ve been spending our Christmas vacation here in the summer capital of the Philippines – Baguio City.

Tonight is our last night here and will be heading back home tomorrow mid-day… Anyway, here a new word for you further build your vocabulary – Transient.

I keep on readin transient here.. Room or House for rent or Transient or something.. That’s why I look it up and found the definition out:

What is “Transient”?

It has several definition on Google but the most accurate for my case:

“one who stays for only a short time; “transient laborers” “.

Here are some other definition:

# transeunt: of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
# (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
# ephemeral: lasting a very short time; “the ephemeral joys of childhood”; “a passing fancy”; “youth’s transient beauty”; “love is transitory but it is eternal”; “fugacious blossoms”
In acoustics and audio, a transient is a short-duration signal that represents a non-harmonic attack phase of a musical sound or spoken word. It contains a high degree of non-periodic components and a higher magnitude of high frequencies than the harmonic content of that sound. …

We are going to the Philippines summer capital even though it’s December and the weather is cold… It’s alright, it’s a perfect way to celebrate the holiday with the family.

As I was updating my blog, I came across a news in Yahoo (yeah, I’m checking my email). I then updated my video blog with the news and stated my sadness.

So, in building our vocabulary tonight, our word is “Truce” which means, straightforwardly – a ceasefire. It is a cease fire between to opposing group in a hope or a chance to talk peace.

The news was about Israel and Gaza/Palestines.

Here are two definition of “Truce”:

# A ceasefire (or truce) is a temporary stoppage of a war or any armed conflict, where each side of the conflict agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. …

# a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties; an agreement between opposed parties in which …

Today is the day after Christmas,,, yeah it’s December 26.. I was checking my Yahoo email when I got a glimpse of the terrible news… A man dressed up as Sanda crash to a christmas eve party and killed at least 6 people.. how sad was that..

I knew right then that this person had a personal problem… and it turns out its true.. He just underwent a horrific divorce experience:

Today’s word is Amicable… that’s everything their marriage was not. Amicable.

To qoute the police officer:

“It was not an amicable divorce,” police Lt. Pat Buchanan said…

So time to build that vocabulary.. here’s the definition of Amicable

# characterized by friendship and good will

# Showing friendliness or goodwill

# amicably – in an amicable manner; “they separated amicably”

# amicability – a disinclination to quarrel

# amicability – The state or quality of being amicable or friendly

# amicably – friendly; characterized by an absence of antagonism, especially in commonly difficult situations

# means “friendly and peaceable”, and is used to describe agreements or relationships between groups or people: After years of disagreement, the two countries came to an amicable agreement.

# agreed to, or prosecuted with the agreement of all parties, such as Amicable Revival of Judgment

Check out the utube video of that news.

Farther refers to length or distance. It is the comparative form of the word far when referring to distance.

Further means “to a greater degree,” “additional,” or “additionally.” It refers to time or amount. It is the comparative form of the word far when meaning “much.”

Correct: London is farther north than Juneau.
(Refers to distance)

Correct: This plan requires further study.
(Meaning “additional study,” refers to amount)

Correct: According to my timetable, we should be further along.

I am currently (trying) to finish reading “The Talisman” by Stepehen King so I can start reading the other King book. This is the one I bought in Burnaby – Lisey’s Story.

While reading it last night I got this word – Don.

Instinctively, from childhood or from wherever, I know that ‘Don’ is a word used to denote someone with riches and power. And I know too that it is a spanish term… “a Spanish gentleman or nobleman ”

But the way Stpehen King used it in his book goes like… “..it’s like what children don in Halloween.” or something like that.

I did a definition search now (now that I have internet connection) and here’s what Mr. King meant by “Don”.

wear: put clothing on one’s body; “What should I wear today?”; “He put on his best suit for the wedding”; “The princess donned a long blue dress”; “The queen assumed the stately robes”; “He got into his jeans”

There you go, another word of the day just for you. Keep building that vocabulary ok?

God bless!

Yuoporn is the new vocabulary word of the day.. Although I recommend you put less attention to this one – yuoporn..

Yuoporn is the misspelled word for a popular video streaming website in the internet. It is actually quite popular even though yuoporn is the misspelled counterpart.

Anyway, consider this as another one of our non-sense word of the day that is totally useless, just like redtube and redtube vidios we posted here before… Yuoporn is not for everyone as you may have know by now. It is intended for viewers that knows what they’re looking for (yuoporn) and searching for)

Possible related words:

• Yuvutu
• Badjojo
• Tube 8

I received an email today from WIDGETBUCKS saying that my blog (1 of 4 submitted) was approved for their Ad Network.

Here’s what it said:

Dear Publisher,

Thank you for submitting your sites to be reviewed by our Publisher
Management team.

After reviewing your sites the following URLs have been approved for the
WidgetBucks ad network:

http://utube-yutube-videos.info

The Subject title of the email is “Your new WidgetBucks URLs have been vetted”… and I said, hmm.. I wonder what Vet (or Vetted) is.. Does it mean approved or disapproved?

At first thought, “Vet” looks like an Animal Doctor, right? Well, yeah but it has other definition… and now we will further build our vocabulary.

Now we will know it’s definition.. It means analyze, investigation, examination and evaluation.

Here’s what Google/Wikipedia’s definitions:

examine carefully; “Someone should vet this report before it goes out”

# Broadly, vetting is a process of examination and evaluation. Specifically, vetting often refers to performing a background check on someone …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetted

# Of or pertaining to an investigation, especially one that has been completed
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vetted

It’s vocabulary building time once again boys and girls! And this time our new word is from one of my commenters on my blog (which I am very grateful for)

AdMU Student wrote a comment on my Manny Pacquiao vs. Oscar de la hoya Who will win post, and he writes:

Hi, it seems your English is a ‘bit’ atrocious, as you have used “win or loose”

This Manny Pacman Pacquiao vs Oscar de la hoya bout really isn’t about who’s going to win or not (yes it is!) coz either way,win or loose, both contender will be bringing home tons of money!

Could you change it into LOSE? There’s a huge difference between ‘loose’ and ‘lose’

And, although I am a little embarasshed, I did changed it and decided to make the best out of it and post the ATROCIOUS word here instead… yeah, I didn’t know about it till today..

Here’s what Googel has to say:

Definitions of atrocious on the Web:

* shockingly brutal or cruel; “murder is an atrocious crime”; “a grievous offense against morality”; “a grievous crime”; “no excess was too …
* exceptionally bad or displeasing; “atrocious taste”; “abominable workmanship”; “an awful voice”; “dreadful manners”; “a painful performance”; “terrible handwriting”; “an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room”
* provoking horror; “an atrocious automobile accident”; “a frightful crime of decapitation”; “an alarming, even horrifying, picture”; “war is beyond all words horrible”- Winston Churchill; “an ugly wound”
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous; offensive or heinous; very bad; abominable or disgusting
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atrocious

It has several definition but I will accept each one of them.. This was from the Movie “Pan’s Labyrinth”. Nice movie.. loved it.

# a mythical creature with the body of a man and goat-like ears, tail, horns, and hooves
www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/wardrobe/terms.html

# ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat’s tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

# In Roman mythology, fauns are place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Bacchus (Greek Dionysus). However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun

# Faun is a German pagan folk/darkwave band formed in 1998. The originality of their music style is that they fall back to “old” instruments, and the singing is always the center of attention. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun (band)

# A mythical creature with the lower body of a goat and the upper body of a man, occasionally with horns and/or a long tail

is where you can find yuvutu videos of course. But first thing’s first, thank you so much for visiting this page! Since you got here looking for either yuvutu videos or the yuvutu.com website itself, I will show it to you. Since this is a new word for you, we’ll be building your vocabulary again. This is an additional word for your word treasure.

Anyway, since we’re building our vocabulary here, let me define or tell something about yuvutu.

Yuvutu is a utube-like website, meaning the content of the entire yuvutu website has all videos… Now the thing that differs yuvutu with utube is the kinds of video it is hosting. Yutube is hosting all sorts of videos except the one for matured poeple.. that’s what yuvutu.com is hosting.

Yuvutu is just like Redtube, Tube 8, badjojo, spankwire and other similar site.. go ahead and search for it too.