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Todays Word

 

jactation

PRONUNCIATION:

(jak-TAY-shuhn) 

MEANING:

noun:
1. Boasting.
2. Involuntary bodily movements, such as tossing or twitching.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin jactation (tossing, boasting), from jactare (to throw, boast), frequentative of jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1576. Also spelled as jactitation.

USAGE:

“The girls from the legal pools and the courthouse clerks stood out on the sidewalks [and] engaged in conceited jactation ... Most of the talk had little to do with actual facts.”
Patricia Hickman; Katrina’s Wings; Five Star; 2002.

“Amidst all the pain, and relentless jactation of his body, Laurel thought he could still hear the man.”
Emma Porter; The Fairy King; Xlibris; 2019.

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Todays Thought

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. 

-David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb 1962-2008)

Todays Thought

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. 

-Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984)

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Todays Word

 

grizzle

PRONUNCIATION:

(GRIZ-uhl) 

MEANING:

verb tr.:	To make gray.
verb intr.:	1. To turn gray.
	2. To fuss; to gripe or grumble.
noun:	1. An animal with gray or grizzled fur.
	2. Gray hair.
adjective:	1. Having gray hair.
	2. Gray.

ETYMOLOGY:

For the color-related senses: from Old French grisel, diminutive of gris (gray).
For the grumble sense: origin unknown.
Earliest documented use: 1390.

USAGE:

“My hair has grizzled, I’ve developed a paunch and some rather unpalatable views.”
Sam Wollaston; On the Road; The Guardian (London, UK); Feb 18, 2012.

“Last night, as I was trying to settle my fretting son to sleep, I had a thought, clear as day: ‘I just don’t want to do this any longer.’ He’d been grizzling for 45 minutes, his dad was out, and after a long day at work, all I wanted was a glass of wine and some mindless telly.”
Cathy Adams; Mother Knows Best; The Independent (London, UK); May 10, 2021.

“Consider that I have no hair, no fur, no raiment to disarrange. No silver-trimmed livery-hat to hang on a peg, like Thomas. No grizzle wig to keep free of lice.”
Verlyn Klinkenborg; Timothy; Vintage; 2007.

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