According to Wictinary, a "strong personality" is defined as the qualities of self-confidence and assertiveness in a person. Furthermore, Joyce Meyer claims that "If you have a strong-personality, there is no way you're going to be nice to people if you don't spend time with God."
What a read for me as I often feel that I come across as a not very nice person.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
What are words for?
For Christmas, Santa Claus brought me the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. A perfect gift to complement my growing vocabulary list. The introduction of the dictionary starts off with a great quote that defines "conversation."
"...intelligent beings expressing their minds one to another in words, or other signs intentionally directed to us for notice, whose immediate and main design is to be signification of the mind of him who gives it."
-Noah Webster
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Vocabulary for the week
Effrontery – brazen boldness; presumptuousness
Twee – overly precious or nice
Calamity – an event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster
Anachronism – representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than the chronological, proper, or historical order.
Inexorable – not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless
Entreaty – an earnest request or petition; a plea
"Donkey Punch" - (slang) Donkey punching involves the male punching the sexual partner in the back of the head during anal or vaginal sex prior to orgasm, to provoke a shock causing the vaginal or anal muscles to contract around the male's penis. The move can be prosecuted as sexual assault and even rape in the case of surprise anal penetration.
"...intelligent beings expressing their minds one to another in words, or other signs intentionally directed to us for notice, whose immediate and main design is to be signification of the mind of him who gives it."
-Noah Webster
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Vocabulary for the week
Effrontery – brazen boldness; presumptuousness
Twee – overly precious or nice
Calamity – an event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster
Anachronism – representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than the chronological, proper, or historical order.
Inexorable – not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless
Entreaty – an earnest request or petition; a plea
"Donkey Punch" - (slang) Donkey punching involves the male punching the sexual partner in the back of the head during anal or vaginal sex prior to orgasm, to provoke a shock causing the vaginal or anal muscles to contract around the male's penis. The move can be prosecuted as sexual assault and even rape in the case of surprise anal penetration.
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