Words for the Day; please share

by compound complex 182 Replies latest jw friends

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    fealty:

    What true believer JWs give the Governing Body. Will fawning obeisance be next?

    obeisance

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    To render obeisance to the GB will entail giving it the honor that is due to God.

    I wish my grandpa had taken care to entail his timber holdings.

    Dower

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    During days of yore, a wife's interest in her husband's property was termed a dower; some wives were given to fits of pique at having to deal with such pestilential concerns; others, affected with a goodly amount of dudgeon, primly refused to involve themselves in such matters.

    escheat, warren, weir

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    escheat:

    reversion of land to state when there are no heirs

    warren:

    Safely within the warren were the quivering rabbits; the raging storm without failed to buffet the now sheltered denizens.

    weir:

    This winter, in Sacramento, California, weirs (horizontal barriers across the width of a river) were opened manually to lower the steadily rising waters.

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Even though the gale force winds threatened to buffet me off the path, I doggedly made my way to the country buffet.

    Testy

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    The heat is causing quite a few of us to become just a little bit testy.

    Callow

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    When a thoughtless and callow youth, I did things that now make me weep with shame.

    definition: juvenile, naive, immature

    new word: picaresque

  • sparky1
    sparky1

    Humerus

    Humorous

    As it turns out, breaking your arm is no laughing matter!

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    With a scandalous disregard for polite society, Rhett Butler was a picaresque as well as picturesque character.

    Fallow

  • Village Idiot
    Village Idiot

    Who knew about our new light is more like light bulbs burning out and needing to be replaced?

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