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Did You Miss Happy Hour with Tree and Brian?

Posted Wed, 05/16/2012 - 4:01pm by Christine Texeira

Yesterday, Hugo House opened its doors and invited the community to settle in and ask new Executive Director Tree Swenson and Program Director Brian McGuigan all about the coming year. There were some great questions from the audience that probed Hugo House's need and desire to expand as well as the future of one-of-a-kind resource ZAPP.

Word of the Day: Inveigle

Posted Wed, 05/16/2012 - 5:52pm by Claire Salcedo

In-vei-gle [in-vey-guhl] –verb 1. To entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements. 2. To acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods.

The recruiter who inveigled him into accepting the job hadn’t mentioned the menial tasks and horrible hours.

All definitions are courtesy of Dictionary.com.

Word of the Day: Abstruse

Posted Tue, 05/15/2012 - 9:55pm by Claire Salcedo

Ab-struse [ab-stroos] –adjective 1. Hard to understand; recondite; esoteric. 2. Obsolete. Secret; hidden.

None of the students could make sense of the physics professor’s abstruse lecture.

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Word of the Day: Gaudy

Posted Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:19pm by Claire Salcedo

Gaud-y [gaw-dee] –adjective 1. Brilliantly or excessively showy. 2. Cheaply showy in a tasteless way; flashy. 3. Ostentatiously ornamented; garish.

She flaunted her gaudy purchases to annoy her roommate.

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Word of the Day: Dogmatic

Posted Fri, 05/11/2012 - 5:30pm by Claire Salcedo

Dog-mat-ic [dawg-mat-ik] –adjective 1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas; doctrinal. 2. Asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated.

She was dismayed by how dogmatically and rigidly her friend spoke about politics.

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Word of the Day: Virulent

Posted Wed, 05/09/2012 - 3:52pm by Claire Salcedo

Vir-u-lent [vir-uh-luhnt] –adjective 1. Actively poisonous; intensely noxious. 2. Violently or spitefully hostile. 3. Intensely bitter, spiteful, or malicious.

Her brother was a virulent presence in her life—always convincing her that nothing she did was good enough.

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Word of the Day: Myopic

Posted Tue, 05/08/2012 - 4:42pm by Claire Salcedo

My-op-ic  [mahy-op-ik] –adjective 1. Unable or unwilling to act prudently; shortsighted. 2. Lacking tolerance or understanding; narrow-minded.

Most of his constituents thought the senator myopic and ignorant for not passing to reformative bill.

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Word of the Day: Chimera

Posted Mon, 05/07/2012 - 5:25pm by Claire Salcedo

Chi-me-ra [ki-meer-uh] –noun 1. (Often initial capital letter) a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. 2. Any similarly grotesque monster having disparate parts, especially as depicted in decorative art. 3. A horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy.

Michael’s jealousy was a shape-shifting chimera, always finding new justifications for hating Robb.

Word of the Day: Reprobate

Posted Fri, 05/04/2012 - 9:49pm by Claire Salcedo

Rep-ro-bate [rep-ruh-beyt] –adjective 1. A depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person. 2. A person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.

Jane smiled at her friend. “When you’re drunk, you always wax poetic cussing out the reprobates in your life.”

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Word of the Day: Locution

Posted Thu, 05/03/2012 - 4:31pm by Claire Salcedo

Lo-cu-tion [loh-kyoo-shuhn] –noun 1. A particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc. 2. A style of speech or verbal expression; phraseology.

The professor’s locutions were excessive and boring.

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