6.9.05

Oh What's in a Name

Main Entry:
endeavor
Part of Speech:
noun
Definition:
attempt
Synonyms:
aim, all out, best shot, crack, crash project, dry run, effort, enterprise, essay, exertion, fling, full blast, full steam, go, header, labor, lick, one's all, push, shot, stab, striving, struggle, toil, travail, trial, try, try on, undertaking, venture, whack, whirl, work


Main Entry:

extemporize
Part of Speech:
verb
Definition:
improvise
Synonyms:
ad-lib, dash out, devise, do offhand, improvisate, invent, knock off, make up, toss off.


I think that about explains it.

9 comments:

Josh said...

And I was really hoping to get these thought alphabetized. Guess you can't win them all.

emelina said...

wow, that's some serious intellectualism going on there. not sure i like this blog anymore. sounds too smart for me.

Emma Rose said...

wow. it took me way too long to figure out what you were talking about.

Allison said...

does it make more sense to you if you go with the definition? attempted improvisation [of my life]? hehe. shame on you english major and poet. hehe.

Emma Rose said...

(in case that was addressed to me) no, see, what I meant was: There were these two random words you were defining. And it took me forever to figure out why... that is, it took me forever to notice you had renamed your blog!

Lola Bacon said...

What I find fun is to take the synonyms of the main words to create new phrases. Such as: effort toss off, enterprise dash-out, whack devise, whirl invent, and so on.

Pamela Joy said...

I agree with Rose. It wasn't that I didn't know what those words meant but I couldn't figure out what that post was referring to for a while... until I saw the heading of the post that is. Will you truly help me get a profile picture when I get up there? I feel so inadequate without one! I am planning on coming up Friday late morning/early afternoon... is that good?

emelina said...

i'll admit, i couldn't figure out what the heck you were talking about either, for a while. i thought you were playing word of the day or something. i guess i never read people's blog titles.

mrs ham, that is soooo funny! i miss your awesome creative way of viewing the world.

Allison said...

Enterprise Dash-out. Ahhh hahahaha - I like that one. (Hehe... yeah... I basically posted all those synonyms just because they were so funny) Love for Lita!