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Saturday, July 14, 2007

"ALACRITY"


ALACRITY (Noun)
Meaning:
  • promptness in response : cheerful readiness "accepted the invitation with alacrity"
  • Cheerful willingness; eagerness.
  • Speed or quickness; celerity.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

"AGNOSTIC"



AGNOSTIC (Noun)
Meaning;
  1. One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
    One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
  2. One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
  3. a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god
  4. a person unwilling to commit to an opinion about something                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Etymology: Greek agnOstos unknown, unknowable, from a- + gnOstos known, from gignOskein to know

"AGRARIAN"



AGRARIAN (Adjective)
Meaning ;
  1. Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure.
  2. Relating to agricultural or rural matters.
  3. Intended to further agricultural interests: agrarian lobbyists.
  4. Agrarians : A group of Southern American writers of the 1930s and 1940s who fostered an economic and cultural program for the South based on agriculture, in opposition to the industrial society of the North. The term can refer to any group that promotes the value of farm life and agricultural society.
  5. relating to, or characteristic of farmers or their way of life.