Today’s word is HYPOTENSION.
This is a medical condition that means a person’s blood pressure is too low. The heart, brain and other parts of the body don’t get enough oxygen. This can cause fainting or dizziness or confusion. Not fun at all, is it?
The word of the day is CAVIL.
This word can be either a verb or a noun. As a verb, it means to find fault in or to raise trivial objections. A synonym of this word would be quibble.
As a noun it’s a carping or trivial objection.
Then, there’s this Cavill. Henry, to be exact. AHHH. I wouldn’t quibble over him, would you?
photo from Wikipedia
Today’s word is MORDACIOUS</em>
Ijust like the sound of that one, don’t you?
Mordacious means that someone is using biting sarcasm or invective. It can also mean a person or animal who bites.
It comes from the Latin word for bite Mordax.
Today’s word is SKIMMINGTON-
Skimmington is a procession through a village intended to bring ridicule on and make an example of a nagging wife or an unfaithful husband.
It dates from the late 1600s and comes from the use of a ladle or skimmer used to thrash the offender during the procession.
What an interesting way to make your spouse pay for their sins.
This week’s word is FIXITY.
Fixity means permanent or unchanging. It’s a tough one to use in a sentence, isn’t it? It dates from the 1670s and perhaps should stay there. It’s derived from the Latin of fixitas.
I think I’ll stick to the synonym of fixity and use stability.
I thought I might try a new thing here so I can get this blog more active so I’m going to try to do a word definition every week. Here’s the first one which is one that should be important to every blogger,right?
DEMOGRAPHIC: A demographic is the characteristics of a certain population such as age, income, education, and interests.
We all hope as bloggers that we are reaching the group we want to reach, aren’t we? Otherwise, aren’t we spinning our wheels and merely amusing ourselves with a hobby?
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