As I reported last night, the chick survived her brush with death (wedged between a couple tow by fours. The same cannot be said for the squirrel that (I believe) chewed through an electric line providing power to the outside lights in the front barn. I am not particularly interested in scooping said squirrel out from between the walls, but perhaps one day when I have nothing better to do, or I just get on a kick of cleaning the attics in the barn, the corpse may be removed and put in the trash. Such is the cycle out in the country!No rain today, but we are expecting it. Another cloudy day, and the forecasts are getting worse and worse for massive quantities of rain, and potentially more flooding. From the maps on the national news, we are just on the very bottom edge of the risk areas, but we are totally saturated, so it will nto take too much to put us over the edge.
Denigrate -- Verb. 1. to attack the reputation of, defame. 2. to deny the importance or validity or, belittle. She is teaching her students how to argue against positions with which they disagree without denigrating the people who hold those positions.
Did You Know? If you denigrate someone, you attempt to blacken that person's reputation. It makes sense, therefore, that denigrate can be traced back to the Latin verb denigrare, meaning "to blacken." When denigrate was first used in English in the 16th century, it meant to cast aspersions on someone's character or reputation. Eventually, it developed a second sense of "to make black" ("factory smoke denigrated the sky"), but this sense is now rare. These days, denigrate can also refer to belittling the worth or importance of someone or something.
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