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Saturday, May 03, 2008
Precarious | 1. | dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood. |
| 2. | dependent on the will or pleasure of another; liable to be withdrawn or lost at the will of another: He held a precarious tenure under an arbitrary administration. |
| 3. | exposed to or involving danger; dangerous; perilous; risky: the precarious life of an underseas diver. |
| 4. | having insufficient, little, or no foundation: a precarious assumption. |
Veto | 1. | the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, esp. the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature. |
| 2. | the exercise of this right. |
| 3. | Also called veto message. a document exercising such right and setting forth the reasons for such action. |
| 4. | a nonconcurring vote by which one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council can overrule the actions or decisions of the meeting on matters other than procedural. |
| 5. | an emphatic prohibition of any sort. |
–verb (used with object) | 7. | to reject (a proposed bill or enactment) by exercising a veto. |
| 8. | to prohibit emphatically. |
Adamant | 1. | utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc. |
| 2. | too hard to cut, break, or pierce. |
–noun | 3. | any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance. |
| 4. | a legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond. |
Here's to all the peeps who have issues with my vocabulary. haha. Sorry, sometimes i run out of adjectives to use.
Kenneth blogged at 12:25 AM.
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