You Are My Minions: Excellent Words

Monday, March 28, 2011

Excellent Words

Parallax.

Tuber.

Defenestrate.

Eschew.

3 comments:

Jack Crow said...: Self defenestrate. Yummy.; 9:08 AM
Sasha said...: I dropped by expecting you to have noticed that the test scores under Michelle Rhee appear to have been fabricated. Seems that there were lots of erasures of answers.

I couldn't be happier. She scum, she is.

(http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-28-1Aschooltesting28_CV_N.htm); 2:42 PM
ilse said...: Susurration.

I was accused a couple of years ago, during a discussion of favorite words, of making this word up, because a room full of future English teachers had never heard of it.

My word is "shetrick." Used in a sentence: Michelle Rhee tried a shetrick to fraudulently increase test scores.; 8:34 PM

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Government exists to promote well-being.

Yes, that's a broad sweep.

Compromise is functionally necessary.

Hate is unacceptable in real life (sports excepted; if you don't like that distinction, you're not entirely wrong, and fair play to you). I elaborate on this because it's an easy word to use, and you may see me use it. I audit on this word, and I'm confident about the contexts in which I've used it here.

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The satirist should re-examine satire that sounds like hate.

That includes me.

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Monday, March 28, 2011

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