Word 162: Repudiate

Forgive me, gentlemen, but you must understand that His Majesty’s government and the British people repudiate both the massacre and the philosophy that prompted it.

repudiate (v) 1: cast off or disown [syn: renounce] 2: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid 3: refuse to recognize or pay 4: reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust – source: Gandhi R2 DVD, 1:30:58

Lätinää ja mäiskettä saatavilla

Kannessa sanotaan, että Sormusten herran ohjaajalta, mutta minusta se on hieman epäreilu mainos. Joka tapauksessa tarjolla olisivat Bad Taste (R2), äärimmäisen legendaarinen (!) splättispätkä sekä Meet the Feebles (R1), maailman eniten pipi ja eniten hauska nukkeanimaatio koskaan.

Vihainen asiakas

<Jepson> viimeisestä kuudesta jutusta viisi on jotai helvetin sanoja, joita ei ole jaksanut neljännen jälkeen enää edes vilkaista.

Word 161: Precipitate

Increases in food production may temporarily alleviate the problem, but it is mathematically certain that they cannot be a long-term solution; indeed, like the medical advances that have precipitated the crisis, they may well make the problem worse, by speeding up the rate of the population expansion.

precipitate (v) 1: separate as a fine suspension of solid particles 2: bring about abruptly 3: fall from clouds [syn: come down, fall] 4: fall vertically, sharply, or headlong 5: hurl or throw violently – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 111

Word 160: Parsimonious

I find it more parsimonious to think of him as selecting at a lower level, the level of independent candidates.

parsimonious (adj) : excessively unwilling to spend [syn: penurious] – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 86

Ajatelma

Ajattele jos eläimillä on päänsärkyä, ne ei voi ottaa Ibuxinia. – Sonja

Word 159: Germane

But this is for a reason not germane to our discussion.

germane (adj) : having close kinship and appropriateness [syn: related] – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 56

Word 158: Flotilla

This particular sperm (unless you are a non-identical twin) was the only one of the flotilla which found harbour in one of your mother’s eggs – that is why you exist.

flotilla (n) 1: a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships 2: a fleet of small craft – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 30

Word 157: Fecundity

The same old process of automatic selection between rival molecules by reason of their longevity, fecundity, and copying-fidelity, still go on as blindly and as inevitably as they did in the far-off days.

fecundity (n) 1: the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination [syn: fruitfulness] 2: the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring [syn: fertility] 3: the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth [syn: fruitfulness] – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 24

Word 156: Willy-nilly

Evolution is something that happens, willy-nilly, in spite of all the efforts of the replicatiors (and nowadays of the genes) to prevent it happening.

willy-nilly (adv) 1: in a random manner; ”the houses were randomly scattered”; ”bullets were fired into the crowd at random” [syn: randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way] 2: without having a choice

– source: The Selfish Gene, p. 18