This week's theme: miscellaneous words. rasorial (ruh-SOR-ee-uhl) adjective
Given to scratching the ground to look for food. [From Latin radere (to scrape), ultimately from the Indo-European root red- (to scrape or scratch) that's also the source of raze, razor, erase, corrode, rascal, rat, and rodent.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "By the time the estate's settled -- it'll be a while -- I hope to be long gone. Otherwise I'll be a rich jailbird. But even if I hung around I wouldn't see much of it. With two rasorial ex-wives -- the Skanks from Hell are both well practiced at deficit financing -- and a third who spends like the Hilton sisters, and three kids with college funds, what do you think?" F. Paul Wilson; Infernal: A Repairman Jack novel; Forge Books; 2005. Sponsored by: Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?ad=aw&code=p17 Perfect your French, German, Spanish or Italian with Champs-Elysees audio magazines on foreign life & culture. http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith7 ............................................................................ No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. -La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/rasorial.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/rasorial.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/rasorial.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
