Dictionary.com Word of the Day for Monday February 12, 2007

vivify \VIV-uh-fy\, transitive verb:

1. To endue with life; to make alive; to animate.
2. To make more lively or intense.

Urban Word of the Day
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February 12, 2007: multitasking
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• A polite way of telling someone you haven't heard a word they said. Commonly used on long conference calls, when the speaker is monotonous, boring, or couldn't make a point of one were drawn for them.

Joe: "Blah, blah corporate office blah, blah, [leverage] [proactive]ly blah, blah [human capital] and grade-A [synergy], blah, blah. Do you agree, Jim?"
Jim: "I'm sorry, Joe, I was multitasking, can you repeat that?"

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Word of the day:...........'la vaca' [BAH-cah]
English translation:.......cow
Expression:.................'vacas flacas' - skinny/thin cows. Used to refer to hard times or 'times of shortage'.

Phrase:
No es fácil acostumbrarse a las vacas flacas.
It is not easy to get used to hard times.


Daily Trivia:

What actress got her own TV series after she sent a network exec two dozen Krispy Kreme donuts?

• Weight-challenged Kirstie Alley, who played a fictitious version of herself in the comedy-reality series Fat Actress, which first aired in 2005.