learn a new word each week

carefreeness: the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you

Watching a Jeeves and Wooster dvd and Wooster says, “Spode [a person’s name] qua menace, is spent.”

From Webster’s (1913)on the web

Qua \Qua\, conj. [L., abl. of qui who.]
In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.

It is with Shelley’s biographers qua biographers that
we have to deal. —London Spectator.

and from Answers.com

qua = In the capacity or character of; as: The President qua head of the party mediated the dispute…

(I learned this today too)

1. A person (as a clinical psychologist) who is skilled in the administration and interpretation of objective psychological tests.

I must have seen this before, but when I saw it today in a job description, I wasn’t quite sure who it referred to….

1. A protein involved in coagulation. Fibrinogen reacts with other molecules to produce blood clots.
2. Soluble plasma protein

Boy, it’s been a while since I posted a word. Where are all the rest of you word-learners? Maybe we should change the goal to learn a new word a month! (for me at least!)

A loogie is a wad of phlegm, broken loose and spit out from the congested throat of a usually infermed person. Loogies can range in color from a sickly yellow to a vibrant green, but are invariably disgusting looking.

(I came across this word in a newspaper article by Rick Morrissey, Chicago Tribune. His sentence, “You wouldn’t want a loogie arriving unannounced from the next cubicle.” http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/15670821.htm

I just HAD to look that up, as I spent 11 years in a cubicle and wondered if one ever flew over my cubicle wall toward me. Fortunately, not!)

1. an indication of the approach of something or someone
2. foreshadow or presage

Australian: person given to comical or outlandish behavior.

I looked this up as I read the sad stories of the death of the “crocodile hunter,” Steve Irwin, today.

He was certainly an enthusiastic person, apparently generous, and well-known animal advocate and passionate father. He was enthusiastical “outlandish” in some ways, of course, and the newspaper reports used the word larrikin to affectionately describe him.

Yiddish (also ferklempt): “overcome with emotion”

Reason:
http://www.43things.com/entries/view/1133861

(I think weeks are going by faster now that I wrote this goal. Maybe I should change this to each month….)
This isn’t a new word to me but one that I spent an hour trying to recall the other day for a paper I was writing.

1. Relating to or concerned with discrete or unique facts or events: History is an idiographic discipline, studying events that cannot be repeated.

2. (In psychology) relating to or involving the study of individuals

Watched “Antiques Roadshow” last night and the antiques expert used the word “garniture” which I never heard of so I looked it up!

Embellishment
Trimming
Set of decorative objects (as vases, urns of clocks)

I can’t believe I missed a month of these. Where did those four weeks go?