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Day. | Hours written. | Word
count reached. | Word Of The Day
from OED. | Definition adapted from Oxford English Dictionary. |
1 | 2 | 1700 | belong. | 1. To go along with, or accompany. 2. To pertain, concern. 3. To be the property or rightful possession of; or a property or attribute of. 4. To be connected with or to form a part or appendage of. |
2 | 2 | 3k | myogenic. | 1. Forms muscle or muscle fibers. 2. Originating in or produced by muscle tissue. |
3 | 3.5 | 5k | compact. | Closely packed or knit together; dense, solid, firm. Of language or style or writer: Condensed, terse, pithy. |
4 | 3.5 | 7k | snore. | To make harsh or noisy sounds in sleep by breathing through the open mouth or through the mouth and nose. |
5 | 3 | 9K | manurance. | Tenure, occupation (of land or other property). Cultivation of land; cultivation or training of the character or faculties. |
6 (Monday) | 1 | 10K | maduro. | The darkest grade of color that classifies a cigar. |
7 | 1.5 | 12K | gazillion. | A very large and indefinite number or quantity. |
8 | 1.5 | 12.5K | irremovable. | Not removable; permanent. Incapable of being moved. One who cannot be removed; one whose position is permanent. |
9 | 2 | 13K | headcase. | A person whose behavior is violent and unpredictable, or markedly eccentric. Also a nut case. |
10 | 1.5 | 14K | rocket. |
[From F. roquette from It. ruchetta
(dim. of ruca from Latin for cabbage).]
Common name for many a cruciferous plant (e.g. Eruca sativa, Hesperis matronalis (sweet-scented after dark and beautiful), English water cresses or rocket water cresses). Also a butterfly Mancipium Daplidice. |
11 | 2 | 15K | marsupialize. | "To convert (a cyst, abscess, or other cavity) into a pouch by making a permanent wide opening to the exterior." [From OED's Word Of The Day.] |
12 | 2 | 17K | grade. |
Includes:
To arrange or place in grades or classes. To colour with shades that merge into each other. To reduce the line of a road, railway, or canal. To wear away the surface of something, producing a regular slope. To read and mark a paper with a grade. |
13 (Monday) | 1 | 20K | errant. |
I. Itinerant, traveling.
II. In senses of ARRANT 2-6, thief. Thoroughgoing, unmitigated. III. Straying, wandering, erring. 'Astray, wandering, roving' [From OED's Word Of The Day.] Erring in opinion, conduct; deviating from the correct standard. |
14 | 0 | 20K | sandboard. | A board or tray sprinkled with sand in which symbols can be traced and then obliterated. Also a long narrow board on which a rider may coast down sand dunes. |
15 | 1 | 21K | sneakernet. | The transfer of data by physical (rather than electronic means). |
16 | 1.7 | 20K | stum. | Unfermented or partly fermented grape-juice, must, especially where fermentation has been prevented or arrested by fumigation with sulphur. Sometimes used for renewing vapid wines (or occasionally apple-juice). Vapid wine renewed by the mixture of stum. |
17 | 1 | 23K | s'more. | A sweet snack of toasted marshmallows and chocolate sandwiched between graham crackers. |
18 | 1 | 27K | Machairodus. |
[From scientific Latin Machairodus from ancient Greek MACHAIRA n. + tooth (-ODONT).]
A genus of sabre-toothed fossil cat or lion. |
19 | 1 | 28K | punctate. | Marked or studded with points or dots. Having or coming to a definite point. |
20 (Monday) | 1 | 28.5K | cavolo nero. | [From Italian cavolo nero, 'black kale'.] "Hardy variety of kale with dark green leaves, used chiefly in Tuscan cookery; also called black cabbage, black kale." [From OED's Word Of The Day.] |
21 | 2.7 | 30.5K | booze, boose. | Drink; a draught; alcoholic drink. Drinking or a bout of drinking. |
22 | 0 | 30.5K | underwood. | "Small trees or shrubs, coppice-wood or brush-wood, growing beneath higher timber trees"
[from OED's Word Of The Day].
Without natural thinning by fire and without harvesting, underwood is sometimes reduced by prescribed burn. Also the wood underlying a veneer. |
23 | 1 | 32K | bootylicious | Of rap lyrics, 'bad'. Good-looking in a curvy way. |
24 | 2 | 43K | craggy. | Characterized by crags; steep and rugged; hard, rough; difficult, perilous. |
25 | 1.0 | 43K | outstander. | Someone or something that outstands; a dissenter. |
26 | 1.5 | 44.5K | Romanist. | Adherent of the Church of Rome; a Roman Catholic (n.). Belonging or adhering to the Church of Rome (adj.). Practitioner of Roman Law (n.). Student of Roman antiquities (n.). In-depth student of Romance languages (n.). |
27 (Monday) | 1 | 44.8K | ? | |
28 | 1.5 | 50K | smash. | A hard or heavy blow; (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a hard and fast overhand volley. A loud sound of breaking or crushing; a violent collision or impact. A crushing defeat. A great success |
29 | x | 50K-plus | gagging (not us, baby). | Restricting open debate or preventing disclosure of information. |
30 | x | 50K-plus | hence.
I. Of place: Away from here; elsewhere. II. Of time: From this time onward. III. Of issue, result, consequence: From this, as a source or origin; or resulting from this fact or circumstance. | The light, the light! And I am
hence
from here, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Plus a gift of Vosges chocolate bars (thanks Bev and Kat!) to celebrate the being done. |
No Plot? No Problem!:
A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days (2004) by Chris Baty. |
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