My Creatively Random Life

Today is the last day of the Challenge, Yay!  Congratulations to everyone who made it through.  I am really excited to have made it to the end and look forward to next year.  I already have ideas for next years theme. Zenith Definition:  the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected. Sentence:  Zenith, the point in the celestial sphere directly overhead.             — Henry White Warren Zephyr Definition:  a slight wind (usually refreshing). Sentence:  Nor I. On the contrary, all the allusions to the winds are of the gentler kind,—"balmy Zephyrs," "whispering breezes" and so forth.              — Alexander Pope Zealous Definition:  marked by active interest and enthusiasm. Sentence:  "You are so willing and zealous; but for that very reason I must guard against your ...

Yahoo Definition:  a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture. Sentence:  What I wanted to bring to your distinguished notice is this—that you must not behave like a yahoo in my mathematical set.             —Ian Hay Yeoman Definition:  in former times was free and cultivated his own land. Sentence:   On one extreme was the well-to-do yeoman farmer farming his own land.             — S. A. Reilly Yokel Definition:  a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture. Sentence:  Now, poor people, yokels, clods, cannot love what is incomprehensible to them .             — George Meredith Yore Definition:  time long past. Sentence:  Yore, long ago; generally used in the expression "of yore," formerly, once upon a time.             — Winifred Turner Yelp Definition:  a s...

Champagne and Lemon Drops Blurb: One woman. Two men. One meddling small town. Raised by her older sister in the small town of Blueberry Springs, all Beth Wilkinson wants is to create a family so big she’ll never be alone. Things are going great until her accountant fiancé, Oz, experiences a family trauma, forcing him to rethink everything from his own career to their nuptial plans—leaving Beth alone. As Beth works to rediscover her former bold and independent self in hopes of reattracting Oz, she catches the eye of the charming new city doctor, Nash. Not only does he see her as she’d like to be seen, but he knows exactly what he wants from life—and that includes Beth. Torn between the two men, as well as two versions of herself, Beth discovers that love and dreams are much more complicated than they seem. Review: I have fallen in love with the town of Blueberry Springs, it's just such a magical little place.  It's the kind of place you can imagine want to live, r...

Waggish Definition:  witty or joking. Sentence:   Dinner, however, came, and the little waggish doctor could not, for the life of him, avoid his jokes .             — William Carleton Waif Definition:  a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned. Sentence:   Had they not been poor children, little waifs, they would not have been locked in the cabin to perish like rats.              — Eugene V. Debs Wan Definition:  lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness. Sentence:  Tom was leaning back, pale and exhausted, his breath was short, his face gray, wan and wasted.             —Mrs. Henry Wood Wane Definition:  a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number). Sentence:  India’s biggest producer, reported an 89 percent decline in second-quarter group profit because of waning demand and higher raw...

Now on to today's actual post. Vacillate Definition:  be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action. Sentence:   But the old Napoleon was no more; vacillating almost as if in partial catalepsy, murmuring empty phrases in quick, indistinct utterance, he refused to decide.             — William Milligan Sloane Vacuous Definition:  devoid of intelligence. Sentence:  Why had his brain and senses lain fallow all these months, a vacuous vegetation, an empty consciousness?             — Gilbert Parker Veracity Definition:  unwillingness to tell lies. Sentence:  Professionally speaking, lawyers have been called legal liars, but compared to stock manipulators they are walking examples of truth and veracity.             — Charles Clark Munn Verisimilitude Definition:  the appearance of truth; the quali...

This post comes a day late as I was super sick yesterday, nasty migraine. :( Ubiquitous Definition:  being present everywhere at once. Sentence:   In the run-up to the launch, Morgan has been ubiquitous, popping up all over the place to promote the show.             — The Guardian (Jan 7, 2011) Umbrage Definition:  a feeling of anger caused by being offended. Sentence:  Such men are easily offended, take umbrage at trifles, and are unforgiving in their resentments.             — John Sherburne Sleeper Unction Definition:  anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual. Sentence:  Afterward he administers the sacrament of Extreme Unction—last anointing.              — John James Burke Unctuous Definition:  unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech. Sentence:  He had become suave and unct...

Tangential Definition:  of superficial relevance if any. Sentence:  It is terrific fun, but its relation to the theme remains tangential at best.              — The Guardian (Aug 26, 2011) Tautological Definition:  repetition of same sense in different words. Sentence:  The expression sounds trite and tautological; but it needs emphasis.             — Various Tessellated Definition:  decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic. Sentence:  Passing from one pavilion to another over tessellated pavements, we enter apartments rich in mosaics and all manner of precious stones.              — Henry Martyn Field Theocracy Definition:  a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided). Sentence:  For in theocracies, to the social evil of the offence is added the imp...