WORD OF THE DAY

1. WORD OF THE DAY To the best of your ability, write down the word and the complete sentence in which the word was used. Provide as much context as possible. Document who used the word and when.

2. Sentence: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_use_dalliance_in_a_sentence • Sound: www.ask.com • In box: dictionary:word

3. LUMINARY • \LOO-muh-nair-ee\, noun: • 1. Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies. • 2. A person of eminence or brilliant achievement. • Before winning the famous prize, she wasn't a luminary outside the scientific community.

4. LUMINARY--SYNONYMS • A famous person • celebrity • Hero • Notable • Informal:big name. • Bags fulled with sand that line a driveway or stairs

5. CYNOSURE • \SY-nuh-shoor; SIN-uh-shoor\ , noun: • An object that serves as a focal point of attention and admiration. • That which serves to guide or direct. • I never chanced to see its kind in any market; it would be the cynosure of all eyes there.

6. CYNOSURE--SYNONYMS • VIP, ace, big cheese, big deal, big gun, big name, big shot, big stuff, bigwig, celeb, cynosure, famous person, figure, heavyweight, hero, hotshot, immortal, lion*, luminary, magnate, mahatma, major leaguer, name, notable, personage, personality, somebody, someone, star, superstar, the cheese, worthy

7. FURTIVE--SYNONYMS • clandestine, covert. • underhand, cunning.

8. FURTIVE • \FUR-tiv\, adjective: • Done by stealth; surreptitious; secret; as, a furtive look. • Expressive of stealth; sly; shifty; sneaky. • Stolen; obtained by stealth. • Given to stealing; thievish; pilfering. • He tired of stealing furtive glances and decided to make a bold move.

9. CELERITY • \suh-LAIR-uh-tee\, noun: • Swiftness of action or motion • Speed • The celerity of NASCAR drivers draws people to the event.

10. CELERITY--SYNONYMS dispatch expedition expeditiousness fleetness haste hurry hustle quickness rapidity rapidness speed speediness swiftness

11. DALLIANCE • \DAL-ee-uhns, DAL-yuhns\, noun: • Frivolous spending of time • Dawdling • Playful flirtation • I managed to waste all of my class time with this foolish dalliance

12. DALLIANCE--SYNONYMS • dabbling, delay, delaying, dilly-dallying, frittering, frivoling, idling, loafing, loitering, playing, poking, procrastinating, procrastination, puttering, toying, trifling

13. BOWDLERIZE • \BODE-luh-rise; BOWD-\, transitive verb: • To remove or modify the parts (of a book, for example) considered offensive. • To modify, as by shortening, simplifying, or distorting in style or content. • The editor was asked to bowdlerize the story, but he refused.

14. BOWDLERIZE--SYNONYMS • expurgate,censor, shorten, bleep out • abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten, shorten, contract, reduce, cut • Bowdlerize derives from the name Thomas Bowdler, an editor in Victorian times who rewrote Shakespeare, removing all profanity and sexual references so as not to offend the sensibilities of the audiences of his day.

15. CANTANKEROUS • [kan-tang-ker-uh s]–adjective • disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish: • a cantankerous, argumentative man.

16. CANTANKEROUS--SYNONYMS • bad-tempered, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly.

17. Exculpate, exonerate, vindicate and absolve

18. UNDULATION • \uhn-juh-LEY-shuhn, uhn-dyuh-, -duh-\, noun: • A regular rising and falling or movement to alternating sides; movement in waves. • A wavelike form, outline, or appearance. • One of a series of waves or wavelike segments

19. UNDULATION--SYNONYMS