VOCABULARY & ETYMOLOGIES

I had a recent discussion about vocabulary:
Who has great vocabulary?
Who is wasting time and learning little?
Who is sitting around?

I work part time and have lots of chances to sit at the computer looking things up!
Looking up words! Fun!
Many words have their roots in Latin. Some in English.

Dictionaries have explanations. (etymologies; how a word originated, accompanying the definitions).

I've always loved Etymologies, ever since my 8th grade teacher required them to be included in our weekly vocabluary lists.

Here is an epistle for you to peruse, WITH definitions and etymoloties:

I am an incredibly "lazy" soul.
I just don't believe in a point of view that calls resting lazy.
There is always a reason behind laziness.

Some people are depressed...
Ending up on welfare for generations must be depressing.
Hopelessness.
Anxiety.
Stress!
Fear.
etc.

Downtime "laziness" is important for our brains
I also think that procrastinating (a better word than lazy) can end up being a time of thinking.
Your head is throwing around ideas subconsciously (sp?!) about some problem.
Also, I've been able to get a lot done when I'm putting something off.
I'll do anything but the thing that needs doing.
I call it the Positive Principal of Procrastination.

Coming up with a solution cannot be rushed.
Subconsciously or consciously we turn a problem over and over,
trying myriad (I love that word!) solutions.

Let's remember to lay down our heavy heads, to rest.
Or to learn.

(epistle)
–noun [epistol message, letter, equiv. to epi- epi- + stol- (var. s. of stéllein to send) + -é n. suffix ]
1.a letter, esp. a formal or didactic one; written communication.
2.(usually initial capital letter ) one of the apostolic letters in the New Testament.
3.(often initial capital letter ) an extract, usually from one of the Epistles of the New Testament, forming part of the Eucharistic service in certain churches.

(peruse)
-verb[Origin: bef. 900; ME;Middle English OE:Old English epistol <>epi- + stol- (var. s. of stéllein to send)
1.to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
2.to read.
3.to survey or examine in detail.


(myriad)
-noun [Origin: 1545–55; <> Greek
1.a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.
2.ten thousand.
–adjective
3.of an indefinitely great number; innumerable: the myriad stars of a summer night.
4.having innumerable phases, aspects, variations, etc.: the myriad mind of Shakespeare.