BLOGGING TO SOOTHE THE NERVES.

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?"

Bereft: Deprived of something beloved and valuable; made destitute by loss Abased: Made humble; brought down; shamed Ransacked: Pillaged; plundered. Ravishing: Seizing by violence. Beleaguered: Encompassed by force. Emblazoned: Set off in resplendent colors inscribed as though with heraldic emblems. Constricted: Drawn together or compressed; cramped; bound Constrained: compelled or urged; obliged, forced to action. Truckling: Yielding in a servile, favoring way, carrying favor obsequiously. Cosseted: Treated as a pet; pampered, fondled; treated tenderly.

FULMINATE: to thunder ENTHRALL: to fascinate HARANGUE: to exhaust ACCLAIM: to shout applause ABOMINATE: to loathe ADULATE: to flatter in a servile way EXPOSTULATE: to protest earnestly OBSESSED: harassed by a fixed idea. How forcible are right words! Job 6:25

AVER: to declare positively. Pander: to minister to the passions and prejudices of others, usually for personal benefit. Beset: Harassed; embarrassed Adjure: earnestly entreat; to urge; to appeal to Inure: to harden or toughen; to become habituated. Ineigle: to beg wile; to wheedle; to persuade by deception or flattery Belie: to give the lie to; to show to be wrong; to misrepresent. Disgorge: to eject or to vomit. Accost: to come up and speak to first Coruscate: to sparkle flash; glitter. Satiate : to fill to repletion; to satisfy beyond the natural desire. Incriminate: to connect with crime or to charge with crime; to show to be guilty. How forcible or right words! JOB 6:25

Arrogating: taking or claiming unreasonably. Vitiate: to spoil Stultified: Made to appear foolish Alienate: to estrange; to separate, to make a stranger of Aggrieved: subjected to ill treatment; unjustly injured Confound: overwhelm; discomfort; perplex Blighted: caused to decay; ruined, frustrated; withered; impaired Denude: strip the covering from Countervail: offset; oppose with equal power; thwart Disdain: to scorn; to consider unworthy, to think unsuitable and beneath one. They are arrogating t o themselves the attributes of God Almighty. This cheap and sensational literature will vitiate the reading habits of our children. He attempted to make a gracious speech in reply but was stultified by him timidity. He seemed almost determined to alienate my affections. Every family was aggrieved by the new and extortionate taxes. They were so badly nourished that both intelligence and energy were blighted. If they practice what they...

Olympic bronze medallists Vijender Singh (left) and Sushil Kumar at their felicitation in Bangalore on Thursday. DH PHOTO I enjoyed this photo in Deccan Herald today. I enjoyed this middle in Deccan Herald today. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE Vignettes from a bibliophile By Sharbelle Fernandez Reading adds to the font of trivia stashed away in her interested mind. Groucho Marx said, “I find television very educative. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Reading is indeed, a wonderful hobby. I find it very enlightening and often, amusing. The trivia that I have collected is notable. Allow me to share some of it with you. I remember reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. In it was one of the longest sentences that I had ever read. It had eight hundred and twenty three words, ninety-three commas, fifty-one semi colons and four dashes. Presently, William Faulkner’s novel Absalom holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest sentence. It has one...