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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49048)	9/12/2005 6:45:25 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

ostentation \os-ten-TAY-shuhn\, noun: Excessive or pretentious display; boastful showiness. In a city where the wealthy are known for ostentation, many are now buying low-profile economy cars to fool kidnappers and thieves. --Anthony Faiola, "Brazil's Elites Fly Above Their Fears," [1]Washington Post, June 1, 2002 After his marriage, when Francis finally had enough money to indulge his tastes, his extravagance and ostentation in matters of dress frequently occasioned comment. --Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart, [2]Hostage to Fortune It is too early to probe the cause or say how far the staggering ostentation of the wealthy fomented the sullen disaffection of the poor. --Stephen McKenna, [3]Sonia The Puritan leadership was especially distressed by the sartorial ostentation of the lower classes, who were supposed to content themselves with "raiment suitable to the order in which God's providence has placed them." --Patricia O'Toole, [4]Money & Morals in America: A History

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49048)	9/13/2005 11:40:30 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Word of the Day for Tuesday September 13, 2005 officious \uh-FISH-uhs\, adjective: Marked by excessive eagerness in offering services or advice where they are neither requested nor needed; meddlesome. Ian Holm plays a well-meaning but officious lawyer who tries to make the grieving families sue for damages. --John Simon, "Minus Four," [1]National Review, February 9, 1998 The guy was an officious twerp, but Luke and Pete were vagrants, and a railroad employee had the right to throw them out. --Ken Follett, [2]Code to Zero "Why don't you mind your own business, ma'am?" roared Bounderby. "How dare you go and poke your officious nose into my family affairs?" --Charles Dickens, [3]Hard Times

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49048)	9/14/2005 7:33:37 AM
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Word of the Day for Wednesday September 14, 2005 afflatus \uh-FLAY-tuhs\, noun: A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration. Whatever happened to passion and vision and the divine afflatus in poetry? --Clive Hicks, "From 'Green Man' (Ronsdale)," [1]Toronto Star, November 21, 1999 Aristophanes must have eclipsed them . . . by the exhibition of some diviner faculty, some higher spiritual afflatus. --John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets The miraculous spring that nourished Homer's afflatus seems out of reach of today's writers, whose desperate yearning for inspiration only indicates the coming of an age of "exhaustion." --Benzi Zhang, "Paradox of origin(ality)," Studies in Short Fiction, March 22, 1995