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Games, activities and teaching ideas > Come and Play, come and Play, here is the new Word of the Day
Come and Play, come and Play, here is the new Word of the Day
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MarionG
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Come and Play, come and Play, here is the new Word of the Day
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Thank you Valentinaper for choosing my definition!
Here is the new word for the day (or for the next few days as Ed put it).
Lets hear you silly, witty, serious or ridiculous meanings for the word:
obdurate
The idea is to give an alternative meaning for the word, NOT the correct one. This word is not too strange so it is very possible that some of you know it, in that case, put you �re knowledge aside and just make up another meaning, something the word could mean. |
3 May 2013
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cunliffe
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Obdurate is, of course, an adjective. It means soft, easy-going, but to the point of being gullible and easily taken it. Obdurate people are real door mats, they just get walked on. Ob = against, or in front of dur = the door ate = like (Latin derivations) |
3 May 2013
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edrodmedina
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Du Rate was a world traveling French Canadian OB doctor (OB Du Rate) best known for delivering to this Earth such notables as HP Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, Stan Laurel, Frank Morgan, Fritz Lang, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ho Chi Minh and Charles De Gaulle, all in the same year (1890). Ed |
3 May 2013
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Iciar
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The Ob River is a major river in western Siberia. It is so long that people who sail on that river are said to be obdurating ( from the verb obdurate) because they seem to sail forever. |
5 May 2013
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