Thursday, January 10, 2008

Sabrina Luna’s Thursday Thirteen

13 Randomly Chosen Words

1. Intimate - Belonging to or characterizing one’s deepest nature.
2. Entrepreneur – To undertake; one who organizes, manages and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.
3. Bandicoot – any of several very large rats. (Ew!)
4. Infarct – an area of necrosis in a tissue or organ resulting from obstruction of a local circulation by a thrombus or embolus.
5. Midshipman – a person in training for a naval commission; a student in a naval academy.
6. Summerwood – the harder less porous portion of an annual ring of wood that develops late in the growing season.
7. Prêt-a-porter –ready-to-wear clothes.
8. Ibo –a member of a people of the area around lower Niger in Africa.
9. Fauve – wild animal; tawny or wild.
10. Debar – to unbar; to bar from having or doing something.
11. Jointress –A woman having a legal jointure (circa 1602)
12. Plateresque –of, relating to or being a 16th century Spanish architectural style by elaborate ornamentation suggestive of silver plate.
13. Lackey –Footman or servant; someone who does mental tasks or runs errands for another.

(From Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary – 10th Edition)

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Thx & Hugs,
Sabrina )O(


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