WORDS: "Exigent," & "Mopery"
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hazelnut_cafeWord of the Day for Monday June 20, 2005
exigent \EK-suh-juhnt\, adjective:
1. Requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
2. Requiring much effort or expense; demanding; exacting.
Legislative sessions are long, constituents' demands are exigent, policy problems are increasingly complicated.
--Anthony King, "Running Scared," The Atlantic, January 1997
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mopery (MO-puh-ree) noun
1. Violation of a trivial or imaginary law, for example, loitering, used to arrest someone when no other crime can be charged.
2. Mopish behavior: to have pouted face, be gloomy or disappointed.
[From mope, from mop, of uncertain origin.]
"The bleakest moment came when Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon indulged in fatuous mopery, and compounded their crime by causing four Chopin studies to be played at the same time." Clement Crisp; Sadler's Wells; Financial Times (London, UK); Feb 25, 2004.
exigent \EK-suh-juhnt\, adjective:
1. Requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
2. Requiring much effort or expense; demanding; exacting.
Legislative sessions are long, constituents' demands are exigent, policy problems are increasingly complicated.
--Anthony King, "Running Scared," The Atlantic, January 1997
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
mopery (MO-puh-ree) noun
1. Violation of a trivial or imaginary law, for example, loitering, used to arrest someone when no other crime can be charged.
2. Mopish behavior: to have pouted face, be gloomy or disappointed.
[From mope, from mop, of uncertain origin.]
"The bleakest moment came when Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon indulged in fatuous mopery, and compounded their crime by causing four Chopin studies to be played at the same time." Clement Crisp; Sadler's Wells; Financial Times (London, UK); Feb 25, 2004.
