Words from 2005
This list of words was posted on CNN.com one day--the top 10 words looked up in the year 2005 on the Merriam-Webster website:
1. Integrity -- Firm adherence to a code, especially moral or artistic values; incorruptibility.
2. Refugee -- One that flees; especially a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.
3. Contempt -- Willful disobedience to or open disrespect of a court, judge or legislative body.
4. Filibuster -- The use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action, especially in a legislative assembly.
5. Insipid -- Lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate or challenge; dull, flat.
6. Tsunami -- A great sea wave produced especially by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption.
7. Pandemic -- Occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population.
8. Conclave -- A private meeting or secret assembly, especially a meeting of Roman Catholic cardinals secluded continuously while choosing a pope.
9. Levee -- An embankment for preventing flooding; a continuous dike or ridge (as of earth) for confining the irrigation areas of land to be flooded.
10: Inept -- Generally incompetent; bungling.
I dare you to comment on my blog--in 3 sentences or less, use all these words. Here's my try:
The conclave of emergency helpers wouldn't have lasted as long as it had if Bob hadn't insisted on trying to filibuster for seven hours by droning on with fact after fact about the risk of a bird flu pandemic in the tsunami stricken zone. Once the decision was reached, we were able to begin relocating the refugees to the other side of the levee, but they were cold and hungry, and the integrity of the entire group had been compromised. They had already discovered that the insipid little man was inept, and were all looking at us with contempt.
This, my friends, is why I'm a church planter and not a writer. I dare you to try and do better.
1. Integrity -- Firm adherence to a code, especially moral or artistic values; incorruptibility.
2. Refugee -- One that flees; especially a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.
3. Contempt -- Willful disobedience to or open disrespect of a court, judge or legislative body.
4. Filibuster -- The use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action, especially in a legislative assembly.
5. Insipid -- Lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate or challenge; dull, flat.
6. Tsunami -- A great sea wave produced especially by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption.
7. Pandemic -- Occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population.
8. Conclave -- A private meeting or secret assembly, especially a meeting of Roman Catholic cardinals secluded continuously while choosing a pope.
9. Levee -- An embankment for preventing flooding; a continuous dike or ridge (as of earth) for confining the irrigation areas of land to be flooded.
10: Inept -- Generally incompetent; bungling.
I dare you to comment on my blog--in 3 sentences or less, use all these words. Here's my try:
The conclave of emergency helpers wouldn't have lasted as long as it had if Bob hadn't insisted on trying to filibuster for seven hours by droning on with fact after fact about the risk of a bird flu pandemic in the tsunami stricken zone. Once the decision was reached, we were able to begin relocating the refugees to the other side of the levee, but they were cold and hungry, and the integrity of the entire group had been compromised. They had already discovered that the insipid little man was inept, and were all looking at us with contempt.
This, my friends, is why I'm a church planter and not a writer. I dare you to try and do better.
posted by kelly_w at 4:23 PM
4 Comments:
You asked for it....you knew I'd grab that bait.
"For some insipid reason, the pandemic popularity of blog-writing has violated the integrity of my otherwise intelligent thought processes, and here I sit (with contempt for all things sane, it seems)contributing my inept attempt to out-word my own daughter's tsunami-like filibuster of written thought. Am I a refugee from the conclave of worthwhile pen-pushers and paper-wranglers? Put a levee around my mind, Lord, either the tide is rushing in, or maybe I've sprung a leak!"
ok, here goes: (I love a challange!)
The contempt for integrity in the conclave of insipid, filibuster, and indeed inept, cabinet members, only served to dely any possible aid to refugees of the oncoming disease pandemic, a result of the failure of levees against the tsunami.
Blessings,
pk
Wow! One sentence! So far, you win. And you've both beaten me!
Though not far from inept, the insipid cardinal held tight to his integrity as he tried to build a levee of confidence against the pandemic tsunami of insults from the conclave, unfalteringly baring the contempt he held for each of them while seeming nothing less than a mere refugee attempting a filibuster.
At least, I thought it made sense...
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