Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Winner! Inspiration 4 this weeks words!

 

Gargoyle Picking Nose DANimal!  You won!  Happy day to you!  Now, don’t forget to come up with two random words for next week’s challuunge by Friday!

Speakin of Friday, that’s when this week’s art is due.  2pm-ish.  And like a perfect segway, here is some inspiration for this week’s words…

 

ANGEL

noun

1.one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).

2.a conventional representation of such a being, in human form, with wings, usually in white robes.

3.a messenger, especially of God.

4.a person who performs a mission of God or acts as if sent by God: an angel of mercy.

5.a person having qualities generally attributed to an angel, as beauty, purity, or kindliness.

6.a person whose actions and thoughts are consistently virtuous.

7.an attendant or guardian spirit.

8.a deceased person whose soul is regarded as having been accepted into heaven.

9.a person who provides financial backing for some undertaking, as a play, political campaign, or business venture: A group of angels entered the mix, providing George the leverage he needed to take the startup company in a new direction. Angels seek deals that they can exit in less than a decade.

10.an English gold coin issued from 1470 to 1634, varying in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s. and bearing on its obverse a figure of the archangel Michael killing a dragon.

11.Slang. an image on a radar screen caused by a low-flying object, as a bird.

Descending Angel - Misfits Accordion Cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o96fxCg7Q90

SYNTHETIC

adjective

1.of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic ).

2.noting or pertaining to compounds formed through a chemical process by human agency, as opposed to those of natural origin: synthetic vitamins; synthetic fiber.

3.(of a language) characterized by a relatively widespread use of affixes, rather than separate words, to express syntactic relationships: Latin is a synthetic language, while English is analytic. Compare analytic ( def 3 ) , polysynthetic ( def 1 ) .

4.Also, syn·thet·i·cal. Logic. of or pertaining to a noncontradictory proposition in which the predicate is not included in, or entailed by, the subject.

5.not real or genuine; artificial; feigned: a synthetic chuckle at a poor joke.

6.Jewelry.

a.noting a gem mineral manufactured so as to be physically, chemically, and optically identical with the mineral as found in nature.

b.(not in technical use) noting a gem mineral manufactured and pigmented in imitation of a natural gemstone of that name.

Educate yourself on how to do synthetic division:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLgRS0mUZLw

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