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Re: OT- Word of the day.
Today's Word:
Diageotropism (let me break that down for you. di*a*ge*ot*ro*pism)
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horizontal growth: a response of a plant to gravity in which a part of the plant adopts a horizontal position
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August 2nd, 2004, 06:11 AM
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Re: OT- Word of the day.
recalcitrant
adjective
1. refusing to obey authority, etc.
2. hard to handle
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August 2nd, 2004, 10:47 PM
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Re: OT- Word of the day.
Today's Word:
Rhebok (ree bok. sounds like the shoe.)
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antelope of southern Africa: a straight-horned antelope that lives in upland meadows and rocky outcrops in southern Africa. It has brownish-gray woolly hair. Rheboks are related to reedbucks.
Latin name: Pelea capreolus
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August 2nd, 2004, 11:01 PM
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Re: OT- Word of the day.
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Originally posted by Kamog:
recalcitrant
adjective
1. refusing to obey authority, etc.
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As in nearly every teenager  .
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ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third. (Ambrose Bierce)
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August 2nd, 2004, 11:09 PM
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Re: OT- Word of the day.
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Originally posted by Slynky:
quote:
Originally posted by Kamog:
recalcitrant
adjective
1. refusing to obey authority, etc.
2. hard to handle
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As in nearly every teenager .
Watch it... 
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Re: OT- Word of the day.
I will be gone a few days. So I will post today's word then you can have all the fun you want.
Today's Word:
Pipsissewa (pip sissa waw)
n
evergreen plant: an evergreen herb of the wintergreen family that has white or pinkish flowers and jagged astringent leaves that are used medicinally as a diuretic.
Genus: Chimaphila
Also called prince’s pine
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August 3rd, 2004, 11:54 PM
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ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third. (Ambrose Bierce)
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August 4th, 2004, 07:12 AM
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Re: OT- Word of the day.
 Missed that the first time...I second the "Watch it!" Remember, stereotypes are wrong as often as they are right! 
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Re: OT- Word of the day.
Of course. Not all fat people are lazy slobs who sit around all day staring at a video screen. 
Of course, I'M not fat. I am simply 20%+ undertall.
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Re: OT- Word of the day.
Its been a while since we've had a new word so...I guess it's my turn
Satire
1. a literary work in which vices, follies, etc. are held up to ridicule and contempt.
2. the use of ridicule, sarcasm, etc. to attack vices, follies, etc.
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