Remember, ignorance can be fixed….but you can’t fix stupid.
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When there’s an unpleasant job needs doing, it’s better to just do it rather than live with the dread of it.
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@Wanda3 , if you like words, try this: Can you name the common English word which has two meanings that are opposite of each other?
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I’m thinking…dont want to cheat and look this up so give me a minute or hours…
today…means today until tomorrow when the today that was today just became yesterday?
(I’ll keep thinking…)
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If you don’t have anything positive to contribute by all means keep it to yourself.
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Take all the time you like.
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overlook?
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You are referring to a Janus word or Contranyms. There are more than one. A few are fast, cleave and sanction.
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@Joseph202 , @Wanda3… Never said there was just one. “Cleave” is what I was going for.
How about something a little different? A word who’s meaning has become, over time, the opposite of its earlier meaning. Hint: It’s not slang or a colloquialism.
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There about 75. What are you looking for?
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Republic.
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Liberal…our founding fathers were thought of as liberals in their day.
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In fact, they were labeled as traitors by the ruling authorities.
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Correct, the question was what words have had the meaning changed over the years. Liberal back then was more individual freedom. While today it has taken on a more government reliance meaning.
Like gay. When I was very young it meant happy. Today it means/leans towards homosexuality.
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I’m thinking of a word less…political. It is a word in a commonly used phrase.
“Darkness can not drive out darkness, only light can do that! Hatred can not drive out hatred, only love can do that!”
- A leader
- A father
- A Christian
- A hero
- A King
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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It was so hot the corn started popping in the fields, the chickens thought it was snow, and froze to death.
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OK< the word I was thinking of is “moot”. Today its primary usage is to mean something which has been rendered irrelevant by new conditions or information. In earlier times it was used to mean a subject fit for discussion or debate.
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