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Wednesday's word for the day - Dryrod - 05-24-2006
[center][font "Poor Richard"][green][size 3]CONFLUENCE[/size][/green][/font][/center]
[font "Poor Richard"][size 3][green]1 a : the flowing together of two or more streams [/green][/size][/font]
[font "Poor Richard"][size 3][green] b : the place of meeting of two streams [/green][/size][/font]
[font "Poor Richard"][size 3][green] c : the combined stream formed by conjunction [/green][/size][/font]
[font "Poor Richard"][#008000][size 3]2 : a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point <a happy confluence of weather and scenery>[/size][/#008000][/font]
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Re: [Dryrod] Wednesday's word for the day - Fishhound - 05-25-2006
[black][size 3]3. Con-Fluence: Method used by politicians to gain office they would otherwise not be qualified to hold.[/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]4. Con-Fluence: Combination of separate streams of flotsom in a liquid or gaseous solution into one river of sewage - often called government.[/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]5. Con-Fluence: Politiclly correct euphemism describing the wealthy in fluid two-faced positions of power over the increasingly unlikely to become wealthy. [/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]6. Con-Fluence: The convergence of extortion, perjury, bribery, and highway robbery into a legal format by those that make the legal environment to which they are mostly immune. [/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]7. Con-Fluence: A powerful force of errosion that strips natural resouces of anything downstream that is unfortunate enough to be unable to get out of the way.[/size][/black]
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Re: [Dryrod] Wednesday's word for the day - duke-i - 05-25-2006
con.flu.ence (kon'floo-ans) (< cometogether+fluere, flow) 1. a flowing togethe, as streames. 2. the place of this, 3. a flocking together. 4 a crowd ---con'-flu-ent, adj.
Fro-found, Depends on witch dictionary you use. Mine is as old as me.
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