Word of the Day 02/14/22 Perorate

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Perorate (verb)
perorate [ per-uh-reyt ]

verb (used without object), per·o·rat·ed, per·o·rat·ing.
1. to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.
2. to bring a speech to a close with a formal conclusion.

OTHER WORDS FROM PERORATE
per·o·ra·tor, noun

WORDS RELATED TO PERORATE
address, declaim, expatiate, lecture, orate, speak, conclude, epitomize, rant, sum up

See synonyms for perorate on Thesaurus.com

Origin: First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin perōrātus, past participle of perōrāre; see origin at per-, orate

HOW TO USE PERORATE IN A SENTENCE
Men of letters who were men of sense would have smiled and let Perrault perorate.
POPULAR TALES|CHARLES PERRAULT

The Greek sought after wisdom; he wanted a man who would perorate and argue and dissertate.
EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE: ROMANS CORINTHIANS (TO II CORINTHIANS, CHAP. V)|ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.

Songfic Challenge!

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Today I bring you a selection of the shortest songs to ever hit #1




( Today's songs )

Jan 2022 stats!

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Sorry guys, despite my best intentions, I have been no better at getting the end of Jan's stats up for you all to see. For this I must apologise, and advise that the numbers are in!

WHAT A GREAT START!!!

Image word: 53 x 1,000. This is wonderful!

Written word: 218,185 . This is better than January the last two years, so I am thrilled!

1_million_words Total words to date 2021: 271,185

YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

This is a fantastic start, everyone! Keep up the great work! Don't forget that our current long challenge, Songfic, goes until the end of Feb, so you still have another 14 days to get in something creative for this challenge, not to mention all our ongoing weekly and daily stuff!

And don't let's forget our Creative work so far this year! I've just had a read over here and man, are you all talented! What a great bunch of great things everyone has started in 2022 already! Add yourself here too, if you haven't already, and let us know what marvellous things you're making or doing that you consider to be creative (even though we won't be counting in our words/graphics numbers). It's impressive all the same, and I love seeing it!

As for the rest of this month, let's be creative out there!!! ;-)

Monday's a Monday here

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I figured I may as well post Monday's main post today already since I'm just as likely to forget later, no matter how many reminders I give myself. It's just so easy to swipe them away and think "Oh yeah, gotta do that", then promptly forget as I move on to some other distraction, be it work or play!

Anyhoo, it's Monday the 14th and Valentine's Day already here, so will be too where you are soon enough! Valentine's wasn't such a big deal when I was a kid, but NZ has become more American-influenced since the internet came to town (we were largely British-influenced before that, apart from our own idiosyncrasies here in NZ), so VDay is a much bigger thing these days. However, I've never celebrated much because my lovely husband and I chose to get married on the 17th of the same month and it's crazy to do both when they're so close. One of the best things about having an anniversary (our 26th this year!) just after VDay is that the prices on so many romantic-type gifts and such drop the next day or so after it. Not silly, us.

So Thursday night we are planning a dinner at the lovely little restaurant up the road to celebrate, and I would like to thank my 1MW co-conspirator, kaige, who so brilliantly found this place online last year, and for my birthday sent me vouchers to use there! I hadn't got to using them before now as we were in lockdown from Aug to Dec, and by then it was crazy around here with Christmas stuff, so our anniversary in Feb looked like the best time to use them. We are very much looking forward to it as it's probably something like nine months since either of us had a restaurant dinner. That's my happenings for this wonderful week (words may be another matter altogether); what are you up to?

Don't forget to check out the tags for all the last week's wonderful prompts, be it A-Z, Numbers, Weekend Challenge (and skargasm has made it a special extended version!), Slow Sated Sunday, Word of the Day, or the current long challenge, Songfic; there's plenty of choice!

Your flash challenge for today is courtesy of Simon & Garfunkel, who I am currently listening to: The Zoo. Whether it's a couple of your characters meeting there unexpectedly, someone taking a child there, or just reminiscing about old visits, there's so much potential in the zoo! Drop and give us 100 words (or more) for the heck of it, then pat yourself on the back for your effort!

Big Buddyites, you should be around the 50% mark today; how is it going? Need any help or encouragement? Tell us, do!

Good luck to this week's Daily Challengers! Hope you all manage to make your goals!

And let's continue being creative out there! ;-)

Daily Count reminder

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How is the writing thing going for you? Any bumps or hiccups in remembering the days you're accountable for?

If not, great! If so, that's still great! We're going to help you with that!

Here are the next 7 people for the month! Let's cheer them on to get those words!!

TU 15 – Dreamy
WE 16 – flipflop_diva
TH 17 – skargasm
FR 18 – agdhani
SA 19 – apachefirecat

SU 20 – itsanonyx
MO 21 – cmk418


Happy continued writing!

Daily count challenge to Dreamy

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Had a good day. Watched the women's hockey semifinals in the Olympics and wrote a little over a thousand words. I posted one story for the last day of Half a Moon and then finished another that will count toward a Bingo challenge.

Dreamy, it's all yours. May your day be filled with abundant creativity and may your Muses be kind. Happy writing!

Weekend Challenge - True Bulls#*t!

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Well that's your weekend of True Bulls#*t over and done with! I hope you've enjoyed the prompts and I'm looking forward to my next weekend! Thanks for taking part and I'm looking forward to seeing what you all came up with!