Rambunctious

The word of the day is Rambunctious!

The cat of the day is Franky.

And the cat of the day, Franky, is extremely rambunctious today!

Rambunctious means uncontrollably exuberant; boisterous.

The origin is American! or possibly Icelandic.

Synonyms: boisterous, rowdy, wild.

Word of the Day for Sunday 9/28

The word of the day is ... Chicanery!

Chicanery - noun. the use of trickery to attain a political, financial, or legal purpose.

The duplicitous man only succeeded through the use of chicanery!

Duplicity is a synonym for chicanery. There doesn't seem to be an adjective form of chicanery.

Are you dubious about my expertise? I assure you I have used no chicanery!

Dubious is not a synonym for duplicitous. It means Doubting or Hesitating.

This concludes the lesson for the day.

Benevolent

Here's a word I haven't heard in a long time, now I have heard it 3 times this week!

Benevolent - adj. charitable, generous, giving, well-meaning, and kindly.

Benevolence - n. state of being charitable, generous and giving.

Abundance comes to me when I am feeling benevolent!

Wow! ABUNDANCE!

WOW! I got 11 VIEWS for this blog a few days ago.

What will bring more readers?

Bad words?

I've got one: vile.

I like this word. One syllable, but so very distasteful. Just saying it, twists your face and lips into a snarl, or maybe an expression of pure disgust. The facial expression actually gives you the meaning. I'm not sure if there are many other words like this....

Please comment if you know of one. Thanks!

Remuneration

Remuneration is a very good word to ruminate about.

Remuneration means payment. but it has that re- in front so it repeats. "Muni" means money or government. Interesting spelling. A little rearrangement brings us to renumeration. Does this mean renumbering? maybe reprioritizing? It's not in my spell checker. It's not in my dictionary, however, renumber is, as well as reorder.

Recompense is a synonym for remunerate.

Reinforce means to strengthen or increase.

Ruminate means to chew on mentally. It's synonymous with meditate. Well, not exactly. Depends on what kind of meditation you prefer.

Remuneration reinforces itself. Realize that remuneration rebounds and returns, so remuneration is like karma: what goes around comes around!.

crazy words

Crazy is kindof a crazy word. Only 2 syllables short. It contains the letter Z, which is under-utilized in our language. And it contains Y used as a vowel. Also quite unusual.

Crazy means insane, eccentric, or mad.

It can also be used as an intensifier as in She's crazy mean.

It can be used as a compliment, too. That's crazy cool!

Just a few of my crazy thoughts. I'm done now.

On This Auspicious Date

Today is 11-11-11. Is this a lucky day or what?!

I am ponderinging some monosyllablic words today.

Fresh and brisk can be synonyms is the sense of temperature (coolness), yet they each sound so different, Brisk is so quick and sudden, while Fresh is barely a whisper.

Auspicious is also an interesting word, though hardly a monosyllable.

Auspicious means propitious, showing or portending good fortune.

Raving Lunatic

If you get Rave reviews, that's a compliment. But if you a raving lunitic, that's bad, right?

So what does rave mean?

Rave - v.i. 1. to speak wildly or incoherently. 2.to praise extravagantly. - n. a frenzy. 2. enthusiastic praise. From Old French word for to be delirious.

Please use the comment link below to rave about my articles. Thank you.

Daunting

The philolog's choice this month is the word, daunt in its various forms.

This word has come to us through Middle English and old French from Latin. I chose this word because it is monosyllablic and uncommon.

Daunt - v. to lessen the courage of. Synonyms: intimidate, discourage, dishearten, dismay.

Dauntless-adj. bold, fearless, undaunted, daring, indomitable, brave, courageous

Example: Taking exams can be daunting!

Purjurious Verdure

The philolog would like to apologize for misleading you, dear reader. Perjurous is NOT a word. The adjective form of the noun perjury is perjurious. So there is no word that rhymes with verdurous.

purjury --n. false, misleading, or incomplete testimony.

purjurer -- n. one who breaks promises or lies under oath.

purjurious -- adj. characterized by the breaking of promises or misleading or prevaricating.

Verdurous Perjury

Verdurous is a beautiful word!! Lush, Lavish, and Green, which is my favorite color!

Verdure means a young, lush green growth. It is pronounced like ver-jur-us. The "d" sounds like a "j" not like the "d" in murderous. I only mention this because I made the mistake of thinking it rhymed with murderous. It actually rhymes with perjurous.

The word verdurous is related to the word, verdant, and shares the same meaning. They are both synonyms for green. I chose this word because Green is my favorite color, and because St. Patrick's Day is one of my favorite holidays.

Verdure--n. the lush greenness of flourishing vegetation.
Verjurous--adj. green, young, vigorous.

The Emerald Island is so named because it is verdurous.

Vast

Vast is a short sweet monosyllablic word. A small word for the broad, wide, huge, enormity of space. It's difficult to contemplate how vast the universe is.

I doubt it comes from Greek or Latin. Too short. I'll have to check.

What a Predicament!

We are in a predicament.

I am reading a book by John C. Maxwell, called The Difference Maker. There is some good information in here, like how to know whether you have a problem or a predicament. Also how to handle Fear, Solve Problems, Manage Change, and more.

Predicament comes to us from Latin. It means an awkward or inconvenient situation.

Some synonyms: dilemma, quagmire, pickle or jam. I love these!

For a review of the book, see Verbal Impact.

Brimming with wishes

I am brimming with wishes! See musinglog.blogspot.com.

Teeming.

Overflowing.

Brim is usually a noun, but as a verb, it means:
to fill to the brim.

Rim is a synonym for brim (the noun).

Brim comes from Old English.

Charlatan

Charlatan -- n. one who makes false claims about knowledge or skill; quack.

From Italian, babbler.

Ambassador

Ambassador is a grand word.

It means representative. But sounds more regal.

ambassador - n. a diplomat of the highest rank or personal representative. From Late Latin.

All's Well

Swell is an interesting word. I'm swelling with pride and sweltering with excitement.

As anjective I wonder if it is really a contraction, 's well, like All's well.

Rampage

Rampage is both a noun and a verb. I don't believe I've heard it used as a verb. More often than not, I hear "they went on a rampage," not "they rampaged."

Rampage as a noun means violent action or excitment. It comes from Old French.

To Rampage means to attack or act violently; to storm or rage.

I think this is sometimes confused with rant.

But I will not rant or rampage here!

Dither

I've recently heard these two uncommon words.

Blather means to speak foolishly. From Old Norse.

Dither means a state of nervous excitement or anxiety. no root language given, but it is an alternate form of "didder" (to shake or tremble).

Before you get in a dither, I'll stop blathering.

To Extol the Verb, EXTOL

Let me extol the virtues of Forgetting. If you really want to hear about the virtues of forgetting, it is on Musinglog, which has a link over there on the right side of this page.

Extol is a wonderful word, an action word, that means to praise highly, exalt. I'm sure it comes from Latin.