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  • December5th

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    sassy starter : word of the day

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    CHANCE

    chance/CHans/

    Noun:
    1. the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency.
    2.  luck or fortune.
    3.  a possibility or probability of anything happening.
    4.  an opportune or favorable time; opportunity.
    Adjective:
    Fortuitous; accidental.
    Verb:
    Do something by accident or without design: “if they chanced to meet”.
    Synonyms:
    noun.  occasion – opportunity – luck – fortune
    adjective.  fortuitous – accidental – random – casual
    verb.  risk – happen – venture – occur – gamble
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    take a chance – chance encounter – 50/50 chance – once in a lifetime chance – last chance – another chance – chanced it – missed chances – what are the chances – fat chance – give him/her/it a chance – stand a chance – stand a chance – given a chance – on the off chance – jump at the chance – fighting chance – chance it – chances are – only chance – make your own chances – leave it to chance – per~chance – lost the chance – snowball’s chance in hell – second chances

    *And that’s just the list I could come up with. (Feel free to add your own.) It’s amazing how much of our life is affected / changed / sometimes based on this one, little, 6-letter word. Amazing.

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    “For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.” - Mignon McLaughlin

    “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.” – Aristotle

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  • August22nd

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    ser·en·dip·i·ty

    [ser-uh-n-dip-i-tee]

    noun

    1. an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
    2. good fortune; luck.

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    Origin: 
    The word derives from Serendip , the old Persian name for Sri Lanka, and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in FLorence. The letter read:

    It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for example, one of them discovered that a camel blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right – now do you understand serendipity? 

    Jonathan: How’d you find this place? 
    Sara: I first came in because of the name: Serendipity. It’s one of my favorite words. 
    Jonathan: It is? Why? 
    Sara: It’s such a nice sounding word for what it means: a fortunate accident. 

    - Serendipity, the Movie

     

    *post inspired by Live the Charmed Life – Searching for Serendipity & one of my favorite commenters Lou.  

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  • June13th

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    sassy starter ~ word of the day

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    seduction

    se·duc·tion - [si-duhk-shuh-n]

    - noun (as defined by Google dictionary)

    1.  The action of seducing someone

    2.  A tempting or attractive thing

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    Seduction

    (From Wikipedia)
    In social science, seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person to engage. The word seduction stems from Latin and means literally “to lead astray”. As a result, the term may have a positive or negative connotation. Famous seducers from history or legend include Lilith, Giacomo Casanova and the character Don Juan.

    Seduction, seen negatively, involves temptation and enticement, often sexual in nature, to lead someone astray into a behavioral choice they would not have made if they were not in a state of sexual arousal. Seen positively, seduction is a synonym for the act of charming someone — male or female — by an appeal to the senses, often with the goal of reducing unfounded fears and leading to their “sexual emancipation”. Some sides in contemporary academic debate state that the morality of seduction depends on the long-term impacts on the individuals concerned, rather than the act itself, and may not necessarily carry the negative connotations expressed in dictionary definitions.

     

    It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce.

    - Voltaire

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  • January10th

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    pas·sion

    [pash-uh n]   -noun

    *as defined by dictionary.com

    • any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
    • strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor.
    • an instance or experience of strong love or sexual desire.
    • a strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire foranything.
    • the object of such a fondness or desire.
    • an outburst of strong emotion or feeling.
    • violent anger.
    • strong sexual desire; lust.

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    Passion (emotion)

    *as depicted on wikipedia.org

    Passion (from the Ancient Greek verb πάσχω (paskho) meaning to suffer or to endure) is an emotion applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something. The term is also often applied to a lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity or love. Passion can be expressed as a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion towards a subject, idea, person, or object. A person is said to have a passion for something when he has a strong positive affinity for it. A love for something and a passion for something are often used synonymously.

    See also: Crime of passion, Love


    “Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”

    - Honore de Balzac

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  • June7th

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    Sassy Starter – Word of the Day

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    beauty – beau·ty [byoo-tee]

    –noun (as defined by dictionary.com)

    1. the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which highly spiritual qualities are manifest).
    2. a beautiful person, esp. a woman.
    3. a beautiful thing, as a work of art or a building.
    4. Often, beauties. something that is beautiful in nature or in some natural or artificial environment.
    5. an individually pleasing or beautiful quality; grace; charm
    6. Informal. a particular advantage: One of the beauties of this medicine is the freedom from aftereffects.
    7. (usually used ironically) something extraordinary: My sunburn was a real beauty.
    8. something excellent of its kind: My old car was a beauty.

    According to the reference.com entry, Beauty is as follows:

    Beauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning orsatisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology,social psychology and culture. As a cultural creation, beauty has been extremely commercialized. An “ideal beauty” is a person who is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture. A number of historical individuals have become icons of beauty, including Cleopatra VII, Helen of Troy, and Marilyn Monroe.

    Human beauty:  The characterization of a person as “beautiful”, whether on an individual basis or by community consensus, is often based on some combination of inner beauty, which includes psychological factors such as personality, intelligence, grace, charm and elegance, and outer beauty, which includes physical factors such as health, youthfulness, symmetry, averageness, and complexion.

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    What’s your definition?

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