Friday, January 05, 2007

Word of the, er -- Month!

Yes, I finally have picked the winning word from the Word Box opened and closed over a month ago. Thanks for your patience! The words were very unusual but I've picked the one I like best!

The words:

Invidiousness
(adj):
Tending to cause animosity or imply a slight

Bucolic (adj) :
1. Relating to flocks or sheperds: pastoral
2. Rural: rustic
(n): A Pastoral poem

Inure (v) :
To make accustomed to something usually undesirable; harden

Desultory (adj):
1. Marked by lack of continuity : disconnected
2. Aimless

Mulct(n): A penalty, especially a fine
(v) : 1. to penalize, esp. by fining
2. To defraud, swindle

Bruxism (n):
the habit of unconsciously gritting or grinding the teeth especially in situations of stress or during sleep

Antipode (n):
A direct opposite

Monopsony (n):
An olgilopsony limited to one buyer
This lead me to look up olgilopsony, which means: a market system in which each of a few buyers exerts a disproportionant influence on the market.
Superannuated (adj) :
1. Retired from active duty because of age or infirmity
2. Obsolete


The Winner of the Word Box is ....

Bucolic!!


According to Wikapedia,

"is a noun originally describing a type of pastoral poetry that praises rural life over that of the city. The manner of a bucolic is usually somewhat fantastic, and the poetry tends to contrast the pleasant and pure life of the country with the corrupt and corrosive world of society. The term derives from Virgil, and "Bucolics" is a reference to a collection of poems. One set of bucolics was written by Virgil, while Theocritus and others also wrote collections of rusticated poems. In contemporary poetry, W. H. Auden wrote a sequence known as "Bucolics.""

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