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Nouns of unusual Power

DERISION: Contemptuous laughter, scornful or mocking ridicule. "There was a look of derision on the face of the head waiter" HARRIDAN:  A disreputable old woman, a hag "That harridan aunt of yours has been talking melodrama" DEBAUCHERY: Sensuality; moral corruption; intemperance "Why do you yourselves bray before them in their dance of  debauchery ." INTRANSIGENCE: Irreconcilability refusal to agree or compromise. " Intransigence and rebellion is the characteristic of these people" INVECTIVE: to attack with words, railing abuse. "Victor Hugo excoriated Napoleon III with magnificent  invective ." AUSTERITY: dry, severe simplicity "We can smile now at the austerity of the Scotch Calvinists." VORACITY: greediness, gluttony; rapacity "Our tax bill is not sufficient to meet the voracity of an extravagant administration" WASTREL: A spendthrift; a waster "will you be the wastrels of a glorious patrimony?"

Yes I know.

Time to update this blog. Quickly a joke for you to laugh. The Pig Walking home one night, this guy hears a, "Psst! Psst!-give me a hand with this pig would you?" Looking into the shadows the guy sees his neighbor holding onto a restless and aggitated pig. "What the heck are you planning to do with that?" he asks. "I'm carrying it indoors and putting in the bath tub." "Why do you wanna do a crazy thing like that?" "Well, you see, it's my wife. She is one of those women who knows EVERYTHING! I tell her that the price of petrol has shot up again...she says I know! I tell her there is more trouble in the East again ... she says I know! I tell her Francis down the street is getting a divorce and she knows that, too. Well, tomorrow morning, since she always gets up before me, I'll wait for her to come running to me screaming 'THERE'S A PIG IN THE BATH! THERE'S A PIG IN BATH!'" And I'll just turn to her and say