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)
2. to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections: to cavil each item of a proposed agenda.
–noun
3. a trivial and annoying objection.
4. the raising of such objections.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

bucolic

–adjective Also, bu⋅col⋅i⋅cal.
1. of or pertaining to shepherds; pastoral.
2. of, pertaining to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life.
–noun
3. a pastoral poem.
4. Archaic. a farmer; shepherd; rustic.