Every Sunday morning the "Breakfast Club" gets together at the Legion for the WORD OF THE WEEK
Saturday, June 16, 2012
June 10, 2012
Pronunciation: \kahn-yuh-SHEN-tee\
Function: noun
Plural: cognoscenti
-a person who has expert knowledge in a subject: connoisseur
Example Sentence:
All the members of the Breakfast Club are cognoscenti when it comes to drinking.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
June 3, 2012
Pronunciation: \fyoo-GAY-shus\
Function: adjective
-lasting a short time: evanescent
Example Sentence:
Fortunately, the Breakfast Club's meetings are normally pretty fugacious.
May 27, 2012
Pronuncition: \MAF-ik\
Function: verb
-to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Example Sentence:
The weekly gathering of the Breakfast Club tends to get quite maffick.
Monday, May 14, 2012
May 13, 2012
Pronunciation: \mench\
Function: noun
-a person of integrity and honor
Example Sentence:
You have to be a mensch to be a member of the Breakfast Club.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!
Sunday, May 6, 2012
May 6, 2012
CACHINNATE
Pronunciation: \KAK-uh-nayt\
Function: verb
-to laugh loudly or immoderately
Example Sentence:
There tends to be a lot of cachinnating at a gathering of the Breakfast Club.
Trivia:
A: Gay for Ray
Winner: Larry
Saturday, May 5, 2012
April 29, 2012
TOPER
Pronunciation: \toh-per\
Function: noun
-a hard drinker or chronic drunkard
Example Sentence:
One thing that the Breakfast Club can be proud of, is that there are no topers among them.
Trivia
Q: What is Mr Lick's nickname for Mo?
A: Mommy Dearest
Winner: Dan
April 22, 2012
OBTUSE
Pronunciation: \uhb-TOOS\
Function: adjective
-not quick or alert in perception, feeling or intellect
-not sharp, acute or pointed; blunt in form
-rounded at the extremity
Example Sentence:
Most members of the Breakfast Club feel a bit on the obtuse side most Sunday mornings.
First Trivia question was a list of 6 times from 10:04 to 12:28, with no less than 14 minutes and no more than 25 minutes in between. The question was: "what did the times represent?"
Answer: the times Kenny got a beer yesterday (Saturday) morning
Winner: Rich