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Definition of Snollygoster

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

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Infantile: Heroes S03E13 Volume 4 Fugitive

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.

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Amicable Marriage?

December 26th, 2008 by Build Vocabulary

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.

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