i am very tired because i saw Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones last night at 10:30 p.m. i thought it was great. yoda was amazing. as much as i loved yoda before, now i love him even more. i think it was better than episode I. i feel it is definately worth seeing. everything is great.
i had a very difficult latin test today. hopefully i did alright considering i spent a considerable amount of time studying for it because it was my only homework.
here are some words:
esurient ih-SUR-ee-uhnt; -ZUR-, adjective:
Hungry; voracious; greedy.
The enemy then was an esurient Soviet Union which, having swallowed up Eastern Europe, had imposed a totalitarian system on countries just liberated from Nazism. --Arnold Beichman, "As Truman envisioned our role," [1]Washington Times, April 23, 2002
These new censors, the deconstructionists, take the most luscious and delicious apple and show it to a hungry person. They then seal the fruit with plastic wrap and demand that the esurient victim enjoy its flavour. --Michael Coren, "Behold the deconstructionist, who liberates literature by confining it to a cult," [2]Alberta Report, April 10, 1995
Esurient comes from the present participle of Latin esurire, "to be hungry, to desire eagerly," from edere, "to eat."
subterfuge SUB-tur-fyooj, noun:
A deceptive device or stratagem.
In the end, however, all the stealth and subterfuge were for naught, as the young publicity agent couldn't keep the secret. --Larry Tye, [1]The Father of Spin
She has also complained . . . that the reporter used subterfuge to interview her, pretending to be the mother of an inmate.--Roy Greenslade, "Filthy rags," [2]The Guardian, January 11, 2001
He is adept at subterfuge, at gaining entry to factories by masquerading as a laborer, a wholesaler, an exporter. --Jonathan Silvers, "Child Labor in Pakistan," [3]The Atlantic, February 1996
Subterfuge comes from Late Latin subterfugium, "a secret flight," from Latin subterfugere, "to flee in secret, to evade," from subter, "underneath, underhand, in secret" + fugere, "to flee." It is related to fugitive, one who flees.
gastronome GAS-truh-nohm, noun:
A connoisseur of good food and drink.
If "poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter," to quote the 19th-century French gastronome Brillat-Savarin, why paint the same painting over and over again? --John Willoughby and Chris Schlesinger, "From Poussin to Capon, a Chicken in Every Size," [1]New York Times, September 22, 1999
Even though Paris was then considered the culinary capital of Europe, the food at the Cercle was so highly revered that many well-known gastronomes regularly made the trip to Lyon to eat there. --Daniel Rogov, "Three culinary tales for Hanukka," [2]Jerusalem Post, December 6, 1996
I am no gastronome at the best; moreover, I have, over the years, eaten in so many unpropitious circumstances and from so many truly awful kitchens that I have come to consider myself almost as much a connoisseur of bad food as other men are of good. --James Cameron, "Albania: The Last Marxist Paradise," [3]The Atlantic, June 1963
Gastronome is ultimately derived from Greek gaster, "stomach" + nomos, "rule, law."
that last one sounds a lot different than it means.
and remember kids pork is the other white meat.