Friday, June 22, 2007

Word of the Day for Friday, June 22, 2007

countervail \kown-tur-VAYL\, transitive verb:

  1. To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to counteract.
  2. To compensate for; to offset; to furnish or serve as an equivalent to.
  3. To exert force against an opposing, often bad, influence or power.



Urban Word of the Day

June 22, 2007: commercide
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=commercide&defid=2059836

  • When a e-commerce site is so slow that you just can't buy anything from them.
The store committed commercide when it gave me that error message... I just left and bought someplace else.




Trivia:

In the 1989 romantic comedy Say Anything, what song did John Cusack, as heartbroken Lloyd Dobler, play on his boom box to win the girl of his dreams?
  • “In Your Eyes,” by Peter Gabriel.



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