Words of the Day - 4

Impertinent : Adj. : Exceeding one's limits of manners; improperly bold; saucy; over-spirited; charetcerized by exuberant quality.
Synonyms : pert, caucy, irreverent, extraneous, orthogonal, overbold, impudent

Example : The girl was impertinent to advice her mother.

Obliqueness : Adj. : Charecterized with a slanting or inclined position; sloping direction; misleading, dishonest, devious; evasive, indirect.

Examples : The deck of the ship has a slight obliqueness; The politicians talk was filled with obliqueness.

Conciseness : Adj. : Expressing more things in few words.

Synonym : Pithiness, succinctness.

Example : The professor's talk was a conciseness of his entire experience.

Pyrrhic Victory : Adj. : Sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the enemy (Pyrrhic victory over the Romans).

Recuperating : Verb : Recoveting; returning to health or strength; restoring to original form;

Synonyms : Recoup, recover, convalesce.

Example : The Stock exchange is now stable, recuperating after the initial fall down.

Words of the Day 3

I happened to read this month's Reader Digest (RD) today. The word power in this issue was really interesting that I decided to blog a few of them.

Scion : Noun : Descendant or heir.

Example: The scion of the royal family helped the poor during the famine.

Tarry : Verb : To delay by making a slow move.

Example: The procession got delayed due to the crowd tarrying all the way.

Polemic : Noun : A controversial argument.

Example: The lawyer was careful not to make a polemic during the trial.

Sangfroid : Noun : Calmness; composure.

Example: The sangfroid of the surroundings made the courtyard admirable.

Desultory : Adjective : Uncommitted; inconsistent; lacking any purpose; unconnected;

Example: The fans got frustrated due to the desultory comments made by the comedian.

Sobriquet : Noun : Nickname.

Example: Red chick was a famous sobriquet of my friend in the school.

Words of the Day - 2

Introvert : Noun : To concentrate on oneself; one whose fealings and thoughts are directed towards his self; to turn inward upon itself; someone preoccupied with their own thoughts.

Synonyms : autist, brooder, creep, drip, egoist, egotist, lone wolf, loner, narcissist, nerd, oddball, self-observer, solitary, weirdo, wet blanket, wimp.

Extrovert : Noun : An individual interested in others or in the environment as opposed to or to the exclusion of self; a gregarious and unreserved person; sociable person.

Synonym : character, exhibitionist, gregarious person, show-off, showboat.

Sepulcher : Noun : Burial vault; receptacle for sacred relics.

Synonym : Golgotha, boneyard, boot hill*, catacomb, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, cold storage, crypt, eternal home*, funerary grounds, garden, grave, graveyard, headstone, marble town*, memorial park, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, polyandrium, potter's field, resting place, tomb, vault.

Verisimilitude :  Noun : appearance of truth; extent of apperance of reality; appearance of the extent of credibility of a work.

Ex :  work has a high degree of verisimilitude means that the work is very realistic and believable that it is "true to life

Words of the Day !

Quintessence : Noun : The purest and most concentrated essence of something; the most typical example or representative of a type.

Ex: The act of the shop keeper was quintessence of generosity.

Serendipity : Noun : Good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries.

Synonym : afterlife, certainty, divine decree, fortune, luck

Hello world!

This is my first post in this great web arena named word press. I heard it from one of my colleagues who told me that they all moved from blogger to word press as they felt this one to be better to use. I too have a couple of blogs in the blogger, one in the same name as mine in wordpress.

As a true linuxian, I wish to use this space to put up small small infos about the technos, especially those developments lighting up in the open source arena! As every new geek starts his life of geekiness with a hello world! code, I also do the same with my blogging at wordpress

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