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Hey everyone,So I really need to get rid of my stupid main blog. So once you notice that you’re not following me, just punch in this url and find me again. I’m going to delete and reclaim this url sometime this weekend. I just want everyone to see this first.
Hopefully this purge of my life will allow me enough peace of mind to establish a routine and post to this blog more regularly.
Thanks <3
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INADVERTENT (in-ed-VER-tant)This is another word that I’ve been throwing around for my entire life, not really being sure what it means. So I figure I should save myself some embarrassment and learn it.
This one is fairly simple; inadvertent is an adjective used to describe something that has happened unintentionally. This word often has a negative connotation of negligence. For example, when I told one of my friends that I thought she was beautiful because she has soft features, I inadvertently upset her, because she though I was calling her fat. I really should have though that one through.
VIRILE (VEER-uhl)This is relevant, because I was just printing out my gender studies homework!
Virile is an adjective that describes a man who is fertile, who is fully capable of reproduction. It is important to know that, although women can also be fertile, virile is not a word that is associated with females. Because of the way the society functions, the word can also be used to describe any person who possesses “manly,” qualities, such as physical strength and a strong sex drive. In that case, it is synonymous with “masculinity.” Though, obviously, a men who is skinny and introspective is not necessarily less capable of makin’ babies than one who is boisterous and bulging with muscle.
Update, and ECHELON (ESH-uh-lon)Hey guys, sorry about the hiatus. I’ve been really busy going to school and not having any friends. The good news is, now that school has started, I read more dense books than I thought was physically possible, so I’ll have plenty of interesting vocabulary from now on.
An echelon is a formation that I find difficult to explain without a picture, so I’ll just show you a picture:
It looks like the way geese fly, only backwards and with only one side of the V. It’s mainly a term used for military aircrafts, but anything in this formation could be called an echelon I tried to figure out how this formation functions in an applicable setting, but I couldn’t find anything on the internets, so if you know, leave a message :)
An echelon can also be a rank in some sort of system. The military jumps immediately to my mind… such is the nature of the word. For example, a major is of a higher echelon than a captain. Another example: in America today, with the huge gap between the wealthy and the working class, most people are in the lower echelon of the implied class system.
Busy, busy, busy#what I am
My brother’s answers to his homework:1. (v) to make slow, delay, hold back - retard (he got this one right)
2. (adj) shared, felt, or shown equally by two or more - murtal (mutual)
3. (n) the killing of one person by another - homecide (homicide)
4. (v) to persuade not to do something - dessuade (dissuade)
5. (n) a government in power; a form or system of rule or management; a period of rule - entrapenure (entrepreneur… but the correct answer was “regime.”)
Just thought this acted as an interesting window into how native-speaking children interpret the relationship between spelling and pronunciation. They gave him an IPA word bank at the top of the page.
RANDYNo, it’s not just a name!
Randy is an adjective used to describe someone who is very openly sexual. You could use it as a synonym for “horny.”
MUSKI was thinking about how to describe my boyfriend’s scent because I’m wearing his hockey jersey and constantly burying my face in it. The first word that popped into my head was “musk,” but then I realized I don’t actually know what musk is.
There is a breed of deer called the “musk deer.”
(Daw look at his little fangs)
The scent that we call musk originally came from the extract from a gland inside the male deer. However, since this breed of deer possesses the trait of elusiveness, humans have found that the scent can be retrieved from many other male animals.
Basically, it smells like balls. Not just balls… the balls of another species. Kind of like how we think it’s a good idea to drink the breast milk of another species, not only as children, but into adulthood. People are weird like that.
If you practice veganism, like I do, and you like to use perfume or cologne, check the contents for, “musk,” because yes, an animal did die for this, and technically you shouldn’t be using it.
And no, I guess my boyfriend doesn’t smell like musk. He smells like his own B.O., not like a deer’s B.O.
“Musk Information | Evidenced-Based Supplement Guide on MedicineNet.com.” Web. 15 Dec. 2011. <http://www.medicinenet.com/musk/supplements-vitamins.htm>.
“Musk « The Quantum Biologist.” The Quantum Biologist. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. <http://quantumbiologist.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/musk/>.
