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Word Writing Workshop Wednesday - demimonde, plethoric, machinate, ingress

B.R. Mt. — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:17:26 +0000

Word Writing Workshop Wednesdays. I get dictionary.com’s word of the day every day in my e-mail, so Wednesday’s posts will an exercise for myself to write a sentence including each of Sunday – Wednesday’s words that week.

Sentence:

Many people consider the government a demimonde, but if you ask me, the people who consider such things are completely plethoric, wanting any reason to machinate any institution that prevents them from the ingress of public buildings while in the haze of their own cigarette smoke.

Words:

demimonde \DEM-ee-mond; Fr. duh-mee-MAWND\, noun:

1. a group characterized by lack of success or status: the literary demimonde.
2. (especially during the last half of the 19th century) a class of women who have lost their standing in respectable society because of indiscreet behavior or sexual promiscuity.
3. a demimondaine.
4. prostitutes or courtesans in general.

5. a group whose activities are ethically or legally questionable:

plethoric \ple-THAWR-ik, -THOR-, PLETH-uh-rik\, adjective:

1. overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
2. of, pertaining to, or characterized by plethora.

machinate \MAK-uh-neyt\, verb:

to contrive or plot, especially artfully or with evil purpose: to machinate the overthrow of the government.

ingress \IN-gres\, noun:

1. the act of going in or entering.
2. the right to enter.
3. a means or place of entering; entryway.
4. Astronomy. immersion (def. 5).

What are the Funniest Books?

funnyone2012 — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:30:59 +0000

Hello Funny One here. I just discovered the Bastarde books. Serge Bastarde Ate My Baguette: On the Road in Real Rural France and Son of Serge Bastarde: Mayhem in the Antiques Markets of Rural France. The first book, Serge Bastarde Ate My Baguette, John, who moves to France to start up as an antiques dealer, but he doesn’t count on meeting Serge Bastarde. The lovable rogue and brocanteur (secondhand goods dealer) offers to teach John the tricks of the trade in return for help in a series of corrupt schemes. As the pair travel through markets and farmhouses, they con hearty lunches from old peasants and get into scrapes with priceless collectibles. The book is filled with eccentric characters and unlikely adventures, this is a hilarious romp through the real rural France. The son of Serge Bastarde is about John’s unscrupulous yet affable partner in crime, Serge Bastarde, marries and moves to Martinique. But, like a bad penny, Serge returns, his personal life in ruins. What follows is a chaotic adventure which sees John being coerced into striking deals with the Romanian ‘mafia¡’, re-roofing a huge Basque house and getting trapped in a skip in the dead of night, while Serge rides an emotional roller coaster. Serge may be as fake as some of his antiques but, with John’s help, he eventually strikes gold in this laugh-out-loud romp. It makes me wonder if there are any other good funny books out there. I wouldn’t mind knowing. What are the funniest books? Well I love the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid series. So funny. Captain Underpants. George and Harold hypnotize their headteacher and accidentally create the greatest superhero in the history of their school — Captain Underpants! His real identity is so super secret that even HE doesn’t know who he is… but he’s fighting for truth, justice, and all things pre-shrunk and cottony!! Captain Underpants has wedgie-power on his side, and he’s coming your way! Super Diaper Baby is also super funny. A man is turned into a poo. I don’t know whats more funny than that? The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists is also a great book. It’s 1837, and the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain and his pirate crew, life on the high seas has gotten a little dull. They get bored and decide it’s time fort another adventure. A surprisingly successful boat raid leads them to the young Charles Darwin, in desperate need of their help. The pirates go to London in a bid to save the scientist from the evil machinations of an evil Bishop. I loved the movie. In the movie the Queen of England is in it instead of the evil bishop. Also another funny book is “The Twits” by Roald Dahl. Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely mean, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch a clever plan to give them just the horrifying surprise they deserve! J K Rowling’s new novel “The Casual Vacancy” is a dark comedy. I haven’t read it but I’ll be reading it soon. What are the funniest books? If anyone knows of any good humor books then I would love to know about them. Anyways, I thought as I’m writing about funny books I thought I would turn myself into a wimpy kid character. I also turned Andy Samberg into one too. Hehehehe!

Machinate

Castledale — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:45:06 +0000

PRONUNCIATION:

(MAK-uh-nayt, MASH-)

MEANING:
verb
1. To plan or plot especially to do harm.
2. To scheme or contrive to bring about.

USAGE:
1. A trio of courtiers were discovered to be machinating against the queen.
2. The hackers machinated a way to steal credit numbers from the company’s Web site.

Kursa - Machinate EP

J Ravens — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:32:08 +0000

Hoooooly shit what a weekend! Wonderland’s 12th Night was an absolute banger, big ups to all the DJ’s, bands, performers, crew and of course the lovely punters who came down and made it one to remember. I played out what was personally one of my favourite sets to date, and the quality of music over both rooms was exceptional all evening.

One of those acts in the main room was Kursa, who smashed out an epic glitch hop/dubstep set consisting entirely of exclusives and his own tracks. As a testament to the quality of his workmanship when it comes to putting together a tune, his latest EP (Out on Adapted Records) is currently sitting pretty at number 2 in the beatport glitch hop release charts, entitled the ‘Machinate EP’. This release features two monsterous glitch hop (Or ‘Neurohop’ as he has coined the genre) bangers, ‘Machinate’ and ‘Be Kind, Rewind’, both with drum sounds and percussion work to die for and solid grooves that will have you bopping like a badman without even realising it. I thoroughly advise you grab yourselves a copy here:

http://www.beatport.com/release/machinate/884621

It’s also worth heading over to his Facebook page and giving it a like, as at 1000 likes there’s a free track to be had.