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Grant Hilliard
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--hardscrabble
Date: August-09-07 2:03 AM
This week's theme: red-herring words.
hardscrabble (HARD-skrab-uhl) adjective
1. Yielding little for much effort.
2. Relating to a place that provides for bare subsistence.
[From English hard + Dutch schrabbelen (to scrape). Ultimately from
the Indo-European root sker- (to cut) that's also the source of words
such as skirt, sharp, scrape, screw, shard, shears, carnage, curt,
and carnivorous.]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus:
http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=hardscrabble
-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
"How did young Mildred, a homely, chubby, fatherless kid, reared on
a hardscrabble Iowa farm during the Great Depression manage to work
up the genius to relish every minute of her life?"
Elizabeth Gilbert; The Home Place; The New York Times; Jul 1, 2007.
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--hardscrabble
Date: August-09-07 2:03 AM
This week's theme: red-herring words.
hardscrabble (HARD-skrab-uhl) adjective
1. Yielding little for much effort.
2. Relating to a place that provides for bare subsistence.
[From English hard + Dutch schrabbelen (to scrape). Ultimately from
the Indo-European root sker- (to cut) that's also the source of words
such as skirt, sharp, scrape, screw, shard, shears, carnage, curt,
and carnivorous.]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus:
http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=hardscrabble
-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
"How did young Mildred, a homely, chubby, fatherless kid, reared on
a hardscrabble Iowa farm during the Great Depression manage to work
up the genius to relish every minute of her life?"
Elizabeth Gilbert; The Home Place; The New York Times; Jul 1, 2007.
Sponsored by:
The Desk Drawer: Ready for a nudge to write more?
Tired of hiding your words in a closet? http://www.winebird.com/
Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers
save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?ad=aw&code=p17
.............................................................................
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ
from that of their social environment. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Pronunciation:
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http://wordsmith.org/words/hardscrabble.ram
Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/hardscrabble.html
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