fealty:
What true believer JWs give the Governing Body. Will fawning obeisance be next?
obeisance
Words for the Day; please share
by compound complex 182 Replies latest jw friends
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snowbird
To render obeisance to the GB will entail giving it the honor that is due to God.
I wish my grandpa had taken care to entail his timber holdings.
Dower
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snowbird
During days of yore, a wife's interest in her husband's property was termed a dower; some wives were given to fits of pique at having to deal with such pestilential concerns; others, affected with a goodly amount of dudgeon, primly refused to involve themselves in such matters.
escheat, warren, weir
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compound complex
escheat:
reversion of land to state when there are no heirs
warren:
Safely within the warren were the quivering rabbits; the raging storm without failed to buffet the now sheltered denizens.
weir:
This winter, in Sacramento, California, weirs (horizontal barriers across the width of a river) were opened manually to lower the steadily rising waters.
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snowbird
Even though the gale force winds threatened to buffet me off the path, I doggedly made my way to the country buffet.
Testy
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snowbird
The heat is causing quite a few of us to become just a little bit testy.
Callow
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compound complex
When a thoughtless and callow youth, I did things that now make me weep with shame.
definition: juvenile, naive, immature
new word: picaresque
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sparky1
Humerus
Humorous
As it turns out, breaking your arm is no laughing matter!
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snowbird
With a scandalous disregard for polite society, Rhett Butler was a picaresque as well as picturesque character.
Fallow
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Village Idiot
Who knew about our new light is more like light bulbs burning out and needing to be replaced?