Word Of The Day

[Diana]

Думали я отстану, ха :hehe:

Today's word

jejune \juh-JOON\, adjective:

1. Lacking in nutritive value.

2. Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; childish.

3. Lacking interest or significance; dull; meager; dry.

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A while ago, Michael Kinsley wrote that Jewish Americans envied Israelis for living out history in a way that made the comfort and security of life in New York or Los Angeles seem jejune.

Were I to make this public now, it would be dismissed as the raving of a mind at the end of its tether, unable to distinguish fiction from reality, real life from the jejune fantasies of its youth.

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Jejune derives from Latin jejunus, fasting, hence hungry, hence scanty, meager, weak.

[Diana]

Today's word

kismet \KIZ-met; -mit\, noun:

Destiny; fate.

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It's pure kismet when these two find each other.

Winning wasn't essential, though it seemed kismet that Cone, for a second straight year, came back from injury to pitch in a game that clinched a bit of postseason bliss.

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Kismet comes (via Turkish) from Arabic qismah, "portion, lot."