The Word of the Day

The Dictionary.com Word of the Day is salient: noticeable; also, projecting; also, leaping.

Please contribute a Usage Example.

User Contributed Usage Examples

Greetings, fellow myrmidons of the P-TWiki!

-- FloydPerryThistle - 02 Nov 2007

Would you consider it to be bombast if I were to use the word flagitious in every day speak?

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 19 May 2007

The use of many of the recent "Word of the Day" offerings would surely result in bombast.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 18 May 2007

I have a penchant for truffle ham and cupcakes. But not together.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 17 May 2007

At least the pantheon has not yet given in to fits of internecine behavior.

Oy -- do I moil though!

-- NatePerryThistle - 15 May 2007

The pantheon must be moiling too much to play.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 05 May 2007

The pantheon at PTwiki is nowhere to be found.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 03 May 2007

Sid is recalcitrant at diaper changing time but mom is indomitable.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 03 Oct 2006

Allergy season certainly adds a degree of vertiginous to my life in the pines, evergreens, and forest fire smoke!

-- BrendaRoberts - 25 Sep 2006

I feel some sort of transmortification every time a "word" like transmogrify comes along.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 19 Jun 2006

Like Kathia, and her sister Parisa before her, I feel compelled to point out that salad days is actually two words.

Maybe we have to change the title to Word(s) of the day...

-- NatePerryThistle - 16 Jun 2006

I'd also like to point out that salad days as a word(s) makes no sense because salad is a food. Not a representation of youth. Therefore salad days actually means "those days of salad" or "the days when we eat green things."

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 16 Jun 2006

One hopes our recent upgrade (see UpgradeLog) to the most recent BlackListPlugin will slow the spammers contumely and continuous defacement of OurSite.

-- NatePerryThistle - 05 Jun 2006

In my sister's spirit, I'd like to point out that stormy petrel is two words, not one. But perhaps I'm being a stormy petrel.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 02 Jun 2006

They chose the wrong word for the day with turgid. Why turgid when you can have bombastic?

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 11 May 2006

Some people consider me a wag but we all know that my material really comes from Nate.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 04 May 2006

The provenance of the cheese was called into question, especially since it had a delicate patina of green fur.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 28 Apr 2006

The harridan who teaches yoga sniped at Stephan today. However, he pointed his little French finger at her and gave her what-for.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 27 Apr 2006

Land of Nod is not a word. It's three words. And who the heck put it in the dictionary? That's weird.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 15 Apr 2006

LOL!

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 18 Apr 2006

I remember the good old days of salmagundi. I didn't know he was asking for salad either.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 13 Apr 2006

My love used to exclaim salmagundi all the time. Who knew he was asking for salad?

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 13 Apr 2006

I just love the word salmagundi!

-- NatePerryThistle - 13 Apr 2006

There once was a hobbledehoy. He played with a small, little toy. He swallowed the toy and had no more joy, oh poor little hobbledehoy.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 07 Apr 2006

Bruce Willis defenestrated Alan Rickman in Die Hard. Personally, I've never defenestrated anyone, but I'm still young.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 02 Apr 2006

Kathia's countenance at The Book Seller will be benignant.

-- BrendaRoberts - 30 Mar 2006

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 02 Apr 2006

Nate and Ben used to enjoy fishing at the confluence of the Downie and the North fork of the Yuba rivers even though they never caugt anything but an old boot once.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 27 Mar 2006

One might debate what my true metier is. Writing? Cooking? I would say napping.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 25 Mar 2006

A prescription of Thorazine is apt to make one stolid.

-- BrendaRoberts - 24 Mar 2006

Looking into your eyes makes me hear the sweetest of aubades.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 22 Mar 2006

The two-year-old child shrieked her displeasure at me and stomped off down the hallway in high dudgeon.

-- BrendaRoberts - 20 Mar 2006

Note to Brenda - you have to use 2 underlines: dudgeon.

perquisite ?! Gimmie a break. We are all going to use "perk" are we not?

-- FloydPerryThistle - 31 Dec 2005

Ain't no way we'll be dining alfresco tonight.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 01 Dec 2005

No one became soporific after yesterday's vast repast.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 25 Nov 2005

Joy and Floyd enjoyed their first cup of coffee in the quiet, crepuscular time before dawn this morning and then the dogs started barking.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 23 Nov 2005

Joy had such an abundance of mums that she had to distribute nosegays all over town.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 09 Nov 2005

The indictement of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby may be the first, gentle, susurrus of change in our current politcal climate.

-- NatePerryThistle - 29 Oct 2005

We often drive down the Interstate 80 conurbation though I've never known quite what to call it. Until now.

-- NatePerryThistle - 14 Oct 2005

See: NewsFlashesNFlickers2005#OnusWordUse

-- FloydPerryThistle - 07 Oct 2005

Perhaps the poster of the boobie-thon blurb was may be forgiven for having yielded to his beneficenct, if inchoate impulse to promote this effulgenct website where folks can "get it off thier chests" for "Breast Cancer Awareness Month".

-- FloydPerryThistle - 07 Oct 2005

The boobie-thon has got to be the nadir of all content on ptwiki.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 03 Oct 2005

Sometimes the puerile behavior of elected officials makes me want to throw myself on the floor in a kicking and screaming tantrum.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 01 Oct 2005

The ferocity of last night's storm swept away the banality of our habitual coffee in bed greeting of "another beautiful f...ing day in paradise", transforming it into a truly halcyon event.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 27 Sep 2005

We will enjoy a bacchanalian PotLuck here at CampAugustine today following the baptism of Sidney Jane Aurelia Perry-Thistle at Trinity Church.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 18 Sep 2005

What would they say if you told them it was simply afflatus guiding your choice of words?

-- FloydPerryThistle - 14 Sep 2005

I'm continually slapped down by critique partners for ostentatious word usage in my writing.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 13 Sep 2005

The long, tenebrous, week is finally over: "Big Barn" is merrily chugging along this morning (connected to the internet at whoping 32.1 kbps) with his new QUIET power supply!

-- FloydPerryThistle - 11 Sep 2005 (Thanks David - now on to a water cooler for those hot little Xeon processors)!

I quaffed a whole bottle of Seigneurs de Bergerac, glass by glass. However, I regretted it the next morning as a hangover trammelled my head.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 10 Sep 2005

Though I agree, perhaps kati would get a better reception to her ideas on the PTwiki front door if she were to act like a demagogue.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 08 Sep 2005

To cavil away... and what about archiving the word of the day page?

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 06 Sep 2005

I hate to cavil about the PTwiki front door, but I fear it has gotten stale and I'm a click away from deleting all the Flickers and Flashes.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 06 Sep 2005

Once upon a time, a long tim ago, Paul Perry tossed a dollar bill into the open violin case beside BenPerryThistle as he practiced, converting him instantly into an ardent busker.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 03 Sep 2005

My plan to make a quick getaway from work today was trammelled by my manager, who needed me to wait in order to take mail out that was not yet ready.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 02 Sep 2005

I love to walk the labyrinth early in the morning untrammelled by the conventions of propoer attire.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 02 Sep 2005

The vast capaciousness of this website (thank you Mr KrisSkrinak et al ) may be tested by BenPerryThistle once he gets the hang of the new Image Gallery Plugin.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 01 Sep 2005

A venial expression of pride is evident on Joy's face in SidneyPerryThistle 's gallery.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 01 Sep 2005

Her beauty was as evanescent as time.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 30 Aug 2005

Oh, I think we ought to give dictionary.com a descant about better Word of the Day selections indeed (in response to Parisa and Kathia's comments).

-- NatePerryThistle - 27 Aug 2005

Perhaps dictionary.com considers Word of the Day a mere bagatelle in the grand scheme of things. (in reply to Kati's comment).

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 26 Aug 2005

We'll have to forgive dictionary.com's peccadillo in selecting such crappy words of the day.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 25 Aug 2005

Floyd sometimes tends to excessive expatiation in providing usage examples of the WordOfTheDay.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 24 Aug 2005

Some higher being looks upon me with a certain schadenfreude and laughs at my disdain of having to go back to school.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 22 Aug 2005

Having been dilatory in our effort to establish communication and understanding with the natives, we found ourselves in a truculent parley for our very lives!

-- NatePerryThistle - 20 Aug 2005

The painter, the poet, the sculptor, the composer, these aim for eternity; performing artists, dancers, actors, musicians, creating the most ephemeral of the arts, settle for enduring only as long as the memory of the last living participant, whether artist or audience.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 19 Aug 2005

In the olden days people would parley before a war to see if they could rectify their differences.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 18 Aug 2005

When at work I feel most dilatory in my undertakings.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 17 Aug 2005

Our recent hardware crash afforded me the opportunity to feel a kind of numinous power in the resurrection and restoration of data.

-- NatePerryThistle - 17 Aug 2005

Those fortunates whose kismet it was to attend the 4th International Piano Basics Concert were regaled with an event so refulgent in sight, sound, and spirit as to leave an indelible impression of wonder and awe at the heights sentient beings can achieve.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 15 Aug 2005

Often when a young student catches up with an older sibling in my Suzuki Piano Studio, the older student will, in a dramtic volte-face, practice with renewed vigor, and both will progress at a rapid pace, pari passu.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 15 Aug 2005

The caesura in PTWiki's availabily let many good words slip by without usage examples.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 13 Aug 2005

Arrange a tryst everyday with PTWiki.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 13 Aug 2005

She withered with ennui, flummoxed that she felt not one iota more excited by the propinquity of his person.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 22 Jul 2005

The ennui that had taken over my life vanished as soon as I saw that there was a Word of the Day page on PT.

-- ParisaZolfaghari - 21 Jul 2005

The ennui she felt was not one iota less oppressive than the muggy heat which had engulfed them for days on end.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 21 Jul 2005

Flummox was the WordOfTheDay for July 19th Kati..., and I love you not one iota less even though you woke me up and made me go to the gym this morning.

-- NatePerryThistle - 20 Jul 2005

What the heck?? Flummox wasn't a word of the day.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 20 Jul 2005

I love my beloved not one iota less even though he growls at me in the morning.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 20 Jul 2005

Well, I did not let this comment box flummox me; I read the distructions and found that I could control the number of rows and columns displayed in this textarea box.

-- NatePerryThistle - 19 Jul 2005

I am totally flummoxed by this comment box that doesn't squeeze down with the rest of the page when resized, but hangs out the edge like ReallyLongTWikiTopicNamesTendToStickOut^? of "div"s. Oops, that sentence belongs over in UpgradeLog.

-- FloydPerryThistle - 19 Jul 2005

"Cleanliness" is noted for its propinquity to "Godliness". Floyd's ersatz rendition: "Cleanliness is next to impossible".

-- FloydPerryThistle - 18 Jul 2005

My love's propinquity is the reason I jot down this sentence.

-- KathiaZolfaghari - 18 Jul 2005

This page is designed to increase each users propinquity with, and ownership of, OurSite by providing a daily doodle toy.

-- NatePerryThistle - 18 Jul 2005