Venereal disease...

Venereal disease...



Venereal disease is a quite a good thing, in the qualified sense that the acronym (VD) provides a useful social transmission metaphor and

working title for this mutually beneficial Vocabulary (Dictionary) Building thread. Do the gracious thing or huff and puff negatively. Your call.



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'Vocabulary/Dictionary' Word for the Day



#1. STUPOR: Noun. Middle 14th Century, from the Latin stupere, stupure... a condition of greatly dulled senses. A state of extreme apathy,

torpor, lethargy, insensibility resulting from stress, shock or daze. Lack of critical cognitive function and viable level of consciousness, wherin

the sufferer is almost entirely unresponsive and capable of responding only to base stimuli. IMO a spirit of stupor often pervades this forum.



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#2. MORON: Noun. 1905–10, Americanism, from the Greek morón, neut. of morós ... 1. A person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment. 2. Psychology. a person of borderline intelligence in a former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69. A condition that often pervades this forum.

#3. uzless: Word applies on too many levels.

I refuse to have a dictionary in the house now, because my first wife used to describe me to her friends as a model husband, which inflated my ego, until I looked in the dictionary and found MODEL: noun, a small imitation of the real thing. 🙂

Originally posted by muppyman
I refuse to have a dictionary in the house now, because my first wife used to describe me to her friends as a... '#4 model'... husband, which inflated my ego, until I looked in the dictionary and found MODEL: noun, a small imitation of the real thing. 🙂

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Disarming and manly admission, Muppyman. Now how about providing our #5 'Vocabulary/Dictionary' Word for The Day. Thanks in advance.

#6. PREPONDERANCE. Noun. 1681, from preponder (ant) + -ance. 1: a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength. 2 a: a superiority or excess in number or quantity b: majority.

EDIT: #6.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Venereal disease...



Venereal disease is a quite a good thing, in the qualified sense that the acronym (VD) provides a useful social transmission metaphor and

working title for this mutually beneficial Vocabulary (Dictionary) Building thread. Do the gracious thing or huff and puff negatively. Your call.



................................. ...[text shortened]... upor often pervades this forum.



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#8. FRAGMENTATION: Noun, 1881. To break apart, rupture; discontinuity, disjunction, severed; gap, rift, splinter; crack, split asunder,

wound... as the direct result of an impact, force or blow or from strain or injury sustained over time. Many today lead fragmented lives.

#9. REVERT: Verb, Middle 15th Century from Anglo-French 'revertir. To turn back, retrogress to a former condition; to undergo reversion

in habit, practice, belief, conversation, behavior. Application: to implode, explode and revert = the destructive process of fragmentation.

#10 phonopsia [Greek] A condition in which hearing certain sounds gives rise to a subjective sensation of color.