Word(s) of the Post

Hello Alan and the odd other person

I've decide to collect all my Word of the Post's into one post for you to review and well...mostly it's for me so I can remember which words I've already used. I like doing this word of the post thing as I love playing around with words, part of why I want to be a writer I guess. I've always loved words and sounds, even as a small child (according to my parents) are there are some words I just love. What I use the word of the post thing for is when I use a word in conversation or a piece of writing and think back and say "wow! that's a great word!!" then i want to record that word and show my enthusiasm for it. What I also like to do is to break words down into their components (I'm not clever enough to do latin roots or any of that lot, but I like to take apart the different sounds and see where words are derived from etc.) I have a fascination with particular types of words too - words that just sound impressive, words that sound like they should mean something else, long words with short meanings, words that have a much easier way of being said, words with unusual structures etc.

So here are a few of my faves and ones i came up with by looking around my room or flicking through the dictionary when i couldn't think of anything at the end of a blog post!! Definitions are courtesy of dictionary.com

Ambivalent – noun

1.	uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.

2.	Psychology. the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.

Prective - has no meaning, but should have one - sounds great don't it?!!!

Ruddy - adjective

.

of or having a fresh, healthy red color: a ruddy complexion.

2.	red or reddish.

3.	British Slang. damned: a ruddy fool.

–adverb

4.	British Slang. damned: He'd ruddy well better be there.

Favourite -

adjective
1.	appealing to the general public; "a favorite tourist attraction" [syn: favorite]
2.	preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child" [syn: favored]
noun
1.	a competitor thought likely to win [syn: front-runner]
2.	a special loved one [syn: darling]
3.	something regarded with special favor or liking; "that book is one of my favorites"

Evidentialism - Evidentialism is a theory of justification according to which whether a belief is justified depends solely on what a person's evidence is. Technically, though belief is typically the primary object of concern, evidentialism can be applied to doxastic attitudes generally. Formulating evidentialism in terms of the doxastic attitude of belief its most-defended form comes from Conee and Feldman: Belief B toward proposition p is epistemically justified for S at t if and only if B fits the evidence S has at t.

Recapitulate -verb (used with object)

1.	to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.

2.	Biology. (of an organism) to repeat (ancestral evolutionary stages) in its development.

3.	Music. to restate (the exposition) in a sonata-form movement.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to sum up statements or matters.

Axiom –noun

1.	a self-evident truth that requires no proof.

2.	a universally accepted principle or rule.

3.	Logic, Mathematics. a proposition that is assumed without proof for the sake of studying the consequences that follow from it.

Epistemology –noun a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge.

Precocious –adjective

1.	unusually advanced or mature in development, esp. mental development: a precocious child.

2.	prematurely developed, as the mind, faculties, etc.

3.	of or pertaining to premature development.

4.	Botany. a. flowering, fruiting, or ripening early, as plants or fruit. b. bearing blossoms before leaves, as plants. c. appearing before leaves, as flowers.

Deluxe –adjective

1.	of special elegance, sumptuousness, or fineness; high or highest in quality, luxury, etc.: a deluxe hotel; a deluxe edition of Shakespeare bound in leather.

–adverb

2.	in a luxurious or sumptuous manner: We always travel deluxe.

Well this has already gone on much longer than I thought so this will have to go on over a few weeks I'd imagine. For now I'll leave you with a word I was horrified to find I'd left out as it's pretty much my all time favourite word.

Generic – adjective

1.	of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.

2.	of, pertaining to, or noting a genus, esp. in biology.

3.	(of a word) applicable or referring to both men and women: a generic pronoun.

4.	not protected by trademark registration: “Cola” and “shuttle” are generic terms.

–noun

5.	a generic term.

6.	any product, as a type of food, drug, or cosmetic commonly marketed under a brand name, that is sold in a package without a brand.

7.	a wine made from two or more varieties of grapes, with no one grape constituting more than half the product (distinguished from varietal).