badinage \bad-n-AHZH\, noun:
Light, playful talk; banter.
Badinage comes from French, from badiner, “to trifle, to joke,” badin, “playful, jocular.”
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cross something off my to-do list every couple of days
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read 24 books in 2009
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hike half dome
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plan my meals and go to the grocery store with a list
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never throw food away
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keep a daily rule of prayer
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grow an herb garden on my windowsill
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scan and fix all the photos I've ever taken that are worth saving
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Learn about spices and use them
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make a list of 43 memories
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learn to whistle with my fingers
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significantly increase my vocabulary
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read every book I own
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Learn Anglo-Saxon
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taste a lot of wines until I can really tell if one is good or not
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get stung by a bee
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love God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength
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live with integrity
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stop feeling guilty about EVERYthing
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contemplate
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Read the Bible through.
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completely understand and apply St. John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul
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learn to make resin jewelry
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buy an expensive bottle of champagne for no particular reason
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celebrate traditions from my ancestral cultures
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climb up the hill to the Hollywood sign and decide once and for all if it is really made out of corrugated sheet metal or what
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go back to the Vietnam Memorial and find the name of the soldier on my POW bracelet
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see Venice before it sinks
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eat a gelato on the Spanish Steps in Rome
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See the Eiffel tower at night
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Drive the Pacific Coast Highway.
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have a Beowulf-themed dinner party, with no silverware, a few outrageous fights, and lots of mead
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Stand on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
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buy Mike Ness a drink
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recite a Shakespeare soliloquy in front of lots of people who aren't expecting it (like in an airport terminal, or in a movie theatre line)
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drink absinthe (actual, good absinthe) in Paris.
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go punting in Oxford
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sail the wine-dark sea
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see the midnight sun
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have a darkroom in my house someday
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own an old house with wood floors and "interesting" rooms (like the sunroom in my sister-in-law's house and the quirky library in a friend's house)
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badinage \bad-n-AHZH\, noun:
Light, playful talk; banter.
Badinage comes from French, from badiner, “to trifle, to joke,” badin, “playful, jocular.”
gustatory \GUS-tuh-tor-ee\, adjective:
Of or pertaining to the sense of taste.
Gustatory derives from Latin gustatus, “taste,” from gustare, “to taste, to take a little of.” Other words that have the same root include disgust and gusto (“vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment”).
asperity \as-PAIR-uh-tee\, noun:
1. Roughness of surface; unevenness.
2. Roughness or harshness of sound; a quality that grates upon the ear.
3. Roughness of manner; severity; harshness.
Asperity comes from Latin asperitas, from asper, “rough.” It is related to exasperate, “to irritate in a high degree,” from ex- (here used intensively) + asperatus, past participle of asperare, “to roughen,” from asper.