Sunday, March 18, 2007

Word of the Week!

The word box was open for a short time only, but we have some good words! Two stood out, to me, as the front-runners, but ultimately I could only pick one as the Word of the Week! Take a look at the words:

Inchoate (noun)
- being only partly in existence or operation

Syllogism (noun)
1. a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable")
2. a subtle, specious, or crafty argument
3. deductive reasoning

Prosody (noun)
1. the study of versification; especially : the systematic study of metrical structure
2. a particular system, theory, or style of versification
3. the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language

Quotidian (adj)
- occurring every day

Ubiquitous (adj)
- existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered

Aphasia (noun)
- loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage



And this week's Word of the Week is:

Ubiquitous!

Use it wisely.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

haha! ubiquitous is so much fun to say! but being the only one of those words i had heard of before, i would have picked something else. oh well.