Thursday, November 27, 2008

qugmire


It is difficult to walk on quagmire ground, as it is wet and loosely packed in mud and gravel. Figuratively quagmire means the situation very difficult to handle.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

boilerplate


Boilerplate is a piece of text, or a sentence format which is usually repeated in many letters with similar context, like in standart business replay or letters of invitation for formal cerimonies, marrage invitation etcetra.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Pyrrhic victory


Pyrrhic victory is one won with a devestating loss and heavy cost.

Friday, May 2, 2008

dreadlock


A form of hair-style in which it is grouped in to number of thick bundles by natural or artificial way and is almost similar to cornrows except that is glued permanently into bundles as in natural form seen on most Hindu religious hermit's head from Himalayan valley or in artificial form on some Yankees like Bob Marley.

Monday, April 14, 2008

inchmeal


Piece by piece, inch by inch, little by little, gradual, used synonymously with piece meal. the word has nothing to do with meal or working meal.

precipice


Precipice is just an cliff. Acrophobia is the fear of heights obviously they do fear precipices.

llivid


Dark bluish appearance. The livid appearance of sun in far ultraviolet spectrum shows solar prominence clearly, which is otherwise not visible.

sacrilege


Transgression against virtues of religion. Recently polish pop culture magazine Machina has added to the spate of images that have caused consternation and anger by putting its cover the following image. The face of the woman is well known around the world and the child is her daughter Laurdes. The clothes however belong to another Modonna, "The Black Madonna of Czestochowa" , considered to be the holiest painting in Poland with thousands of pilgrims walking across Poland to reach it every year.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

apposite


Strikingly appropriate and apt. After years of work as a copy writer, in general talk and even in banality use of apposite words would become evident.

itinerant


The laborer who travels from place to place to do the job as demanded by the employer. It is not a new issue of optimizing the performance of itinerant sales man, it is been to the corporate world since the start of commercialization, and the first problem to be soled. Many theories were formulated for the problem collectively termed as traveling sales man's problem.