8.2.12

when they think you're not looking

prescind \prih-SIND\

verb: to withdraw one's attention

We've been affected. Blogger has forced our hand to prescind yesterday's word: cacography. That's like word terrorism on word terrorism.

6.2.12

kissing cousins

propinquity
\pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\

noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity

All the people who bitch about gay marriage probably have a tad too much propinquity in their family trees.

5.2.12

strung out

circumvent
\ser-kum-VENT\

verb
1 : to hem in 2 : to make a circuit around 3 : to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem

I am so tired and wound up from today, I'd love to skip this blog but I can't find a clever way to circumvent the process.