Newly elected Argentinian President Javier Milei, last month said:
“I don’t go to Church, I go to Synagogue.
I don’t follow a priest, I follow a Rabbi.
I learn Torah.
I’m known internationally as a friend of Israel.
In addition to aligning with the US and Israel, I want to move our Embassy to Jerusalem.
If I win, my first trip is to Israel.”
Discuss it on The BFD.
The word for today is… dissonant (adjective) - 1: marked by dissonance : discordant 2: incongruous 3: harmonically unresolved Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : At the root of dissonant is the Latin verb sonare. Can you guess what sonare means? Here's a hint: some related words are sonata, supersonic, and resonance.
The word for today is… syzygy (noun) - : the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : At first glance, syzygy appears to be a somewhat singular member of the
The word for today is… conscientious (adjective) - 1: exercising attentive care to avoid errors or omissions : concerned with doing something correctly : meticulous, careful 2: governed by or conforming to the dictates of conscience : scrupulous Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : According to American writer and editor H. L. Mencken, "Conscience is
The word for today is… dichotomy (noun) - 1a: division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or parts b: differentiation into two contrasted or sharply opposed groups 2: something with seemingly contradictory qualities 3 astronomy : the phase of the moon or of an inferior planet (such as Mercury or
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