Saturday, April 14, 2007
Words - 14th April
Hi Folks,
Wish you a very happy new year to all tamil speaking people.
Here is the word list for the day
1) Nautical - Marine, naval
Of or pertaining to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
Syn: cruising, deep-sea, marine, maritime, naval, navigating, navigational, oceangoing, oceanic, oceanographic, pelagic, rowing, sailing, sailorly, salty, sea-loving, seafaring, seagoing, ship, thalassic, yachting
2) Pillage - To plunder ruthlessly
To remember: Plunder + Village
1. To strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
2. To take as booty.
3) Pilfer - To steal, esp. in small quantities.
To remember: Pills kill slowly (small)
4) Sobriquet - Nick name
To remember: Sabari, As Sobri
An affectionate or humorous nickname.
An assumed name.
5) Vaudeville - Therukoothu
A Show
theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.
6) Vicariously - Sacrificing
Taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute.
Felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others: a vicarious thrill.
7) Vicissitudes - Interchange or alternation, as of states or things
1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2. Interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3. vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
4. regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5. change; mutation; mutability.
8) Vestige - Remainder of some condition, practice
1. A mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.
2. A surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.
3. A very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house.
4. Archaic. a footprint; track.
9) Visitation - the act of visiting
10) Vivified - to give life to; animate
1. To give life to; animate; quicken.
2. To enliven; brighten; sharpen.
The words again
1) Pilfer
2) Pillage
3) Visitation
4) Vivified
5) Sobriquet
6) Vicarously
7) Vicissitudes
8) Vestige
9) Vaudeville
10) Nautical
Loving - CAT crack!
Wish you a very happy new year to all tamil speaking people.
Here is the word list for the day
1) Nautical - Marine, naval
Of or pertaining to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
Syn: cruising, deep-sea, marine, maritime, naval, navigating, navigational, oceangoing, oceanic, oceanographic, pelagic, rowing, sailing, sailorly, salty, sea-loving, seafaring, seagoing, ship, thalassic, yachting
2) Pillage - To plunder ruthlessly
To remember: Plunder + Village
1. To strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
2. To take as booty.
3) Pilfer - To steal, esp. in small quantities.
To remember: Pills kill slowly (small)
4) Sobriquet - Nick name
To remember: Sabari, As Sobri
An affectionate or humorous nickname.
An assumed name.
5) Vaudeville - Therukoothu
A Show
theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.
6) Vicariously - Sacrificing
Taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute.
Felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others: a vicarious thrill.
7) Vicissitudes - Interchange or alternation, as of states or things
1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2. Interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3. vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
4. regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5. change; mutation; mutability.
8) Vestige - Remainder of some condition, practice
1. A mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple.
2. A surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.
3. A very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house.
4. Archaic. a footprint; track.
9) Visitation - the act of visiting
10) Vivified - to give life to; animate
1. To give life to; animate; quicken.
2. To enliven; brighten; sharpen.
The words again
1) Pilfer
2) Pillage
3) Visitation
4) Vivified
5) Sobriquet
6) Vicarously
7) Vicissitudes
8) Vestige
9) Vaudeville
10) Nautical
Loving - CAT crack!
