Sunday, October 21, 2012

10/21/2012

Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:

mike's word: strident
joon's word: effete

Discuss.

3 comments:

  1. I was so sure Joon's word was EFFERVESCENT. Yet another proof that being certain is not the same as being correct.

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  2. EDWIN MEESE was in a recent NYT puzzle, and that put me in mind of other unpleasant people in politics...Spiro Agnew's intellectual snobs, you know....

    I was happy to get that one handily, then took forEVER to get Mike's...

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  3. (Agnew said "I never said they were intellectual. I said they _characterized themselves_ as intellectual." Near the end of my senior year in Spanish class, the teacher pulled out the NY Times editorial page and said "let's translate this." It was the editorial about that famous speech.)

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