Wednesday, March 25, 2009
proclivity
–noun, plural -ties. natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousnes
Friday, March 20, 2009
luddite
| noun | |
| 1. | any opponent of technological progress |
| 2. | one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment |
cavil
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually fol. by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say. |
–verb (used with object)
–noun | 2. | to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections: to cavil each item of a proposed agenda. |
| 3. | a trivial and annoying objection. |
| 4. | the raising of such objections. |
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
bucolic
–adjective Also, bu⋅col⋅i⋅cal.
–noun | 1. | of or pertaining to shepherds; pastoral. |
| 2. | of, pertaining to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life. |
| 3. | a pastoral poem. |
| 4. | Archaic. a farmer; shepherd; rustic. |
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