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I had a guy come in looking for a book by this title the other day. I asked him if he knew what the word meant, which he did. When he gave me rough a definition I knew immediately that this is word I would use regularly.

Kludge (klooj): A system which is successful in performing a particular function or solving a particular problem while at the same time being inelegant, inefficient, clumsy or patched together. 

or

Something that works for the wrong reason.

“I’ve kludged around it for now, but I’ll fix it up properly later.”

 “I’ve kluged this routine to get around that weird bug, but there’s probably a better way.”

“Some say that google is a kludge”

Here is another word that I have come across often but have never taken the time to understand and use.

Tacit: expressed or carried on without words or speech; implied.

Thus something may be tacitly understood.

Or perhaps they have a partner whose plays a tacit role in their operations.

Better yet one may find as I do that passive aggression is in large part based on one’s ability to communicate tacitly.

Today I was reading Brian McClaren. In his book, he asks the following question, “Are markets free so that inequity can reach its apogee, providing liberty and justice for a very few?”

I wasn’t familiar with word so I looked it up. Apogee means the farthest or highest point, sort of like culmination. Anyway, that’s the word for the day. Enjoy. listen

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I’ve heard this word a lot over the years but took the time to look it up today since I heard it in a message from Dr. William Edgar.

Ephemeral (i-fem-er-uhl): Lasting a very short time. Transitory, momentary, brief.

Enjoy.

This word seems to be getting a lot of traction in material I am reading recently. Here is the skinny;

luddite: a person opposed to increased industrialization or new technology.

Interestingly the word is based on a man named Ned Lud who was part of a band of Englishmen who collectively destroyed machinery in their work place as they believed it to be threatening their jobs.

Someone want to chime in with sentence on this one?

Here is the newest addition to my vocabulary.

Nascent: Coming into existence; emerging

Use it today. I write these words on my hands and try to use them as much as possible until they become a comfortable part of my normal vocabulary. Better yet, use this word on me and we can adopt it together.

This is the beginning of a new and soon to be regular feature here at the vox. I don’t know about you but when I hear or read a word I don’t know I usually look it up. This is a good habit to be in, but if I don’t then share this knowledge or find a way to use the word functionally I tend to lose it. In an effort to enhance my retention and our collective vocabulary I am going to add these new and valuable terms to the blog. So here it is, word #1 metastasize. I heard someone use this word on the radio today and just looked it up. This could be a good one. 
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