Olathe Sunrise Speakers

07/29/2016

Joe Biden brought this weird to our attention.

https://www.patreon.com/Grandiloquent_Word

I'm so happy to be seeing the sudden spike in popularity for this word!

Malarkey
(ma•LAR•kee)
Noun:
-Insincere or foolish talk.
-A load of absolute flapdoodle.

An Americanism of unknown origin, but it also is an Irish surname. First known use: 1920s.

Used in a sentence:
“I’m so tired of listening to that load of malarkey!”

06/27/2016

Persiflage
(PUR-suh-flahzh)
Noun:
-Light, bantering talk or writing.
-A frivolous or flippant style of treating a subject.

From French word persifler meaning "to banter.” Entered English in the 1750s.

Used in a Sentence:
“Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.”
~D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love, 1920

06/19/2016

Politicaster
(puh-LIT-i-kas-tuhr)
Noun:
-An unstatesmanlike practitioner of politics.
-A petty, feeble, or contemptible politician.
-An ill-suited or disliked politician

From Italian politicastro, from Latin politicus (political), from Greek politikos, from polites (citizen), from polis (city) + Latin -aster (pejorative suffix).

Used in a sentence:
"You can neither have read, nor observed enough to be a politician. Pretend not then to scrutinize the arts of government, for fear you should be called a politicaster.”
-Philip Stanhope Dodge -1796.

06/07/2016

Tripudiate. Hmmm.

Tripudiate
(try•PEW•dee•yate)
Verb:
-To dance for joy; to exult; to stamp one’s feet.
-To dance, especially in a measured way.
-To figuratively trample on an opponent in triumph. - (Dancing upon the graves of your fallen enemies!)

From Latin tripudiatus, past participle of tripudiare - derived from tripudium a religious dance - probably derived from tri- three + pes, pedis foot.

Used in a sentence:
“Every night, when I return home from work, my dog tripudiates when I walk through the door.”

Tripudiary - Adjective - pertaining to dancing.
Tripudiate - Verb - to dance for joy; to exult; to stamp.
Tripudiation - Noun - the act of dancing for joy.
Tripudium - Noun - an ancient religious dance.

05/20/2016

Our President represents!

05/14/2016

Our agenda for Tuesday!

05/11/2016

I have hope for the future.

Ottawa High School senior Allie Sanford wouldn’t have seen herself competing in the forensics impromptu speaking two years ago.

04/16/2016

Brad and Karen gave amazing speeches in last Toastmaster's meeting !

04/02/2016

Chris presented an insightful speech "Building a Team" and Jon gave an excellent evaluation of it.

04/02/2016

Sherece did an awesome job being the Toastmaster of the day last meeting !

03/16/2016

We had a lively meeting Tuesday!

03/02/2016

Chris Johnston and Mark Loes gave fascinating speeches titled "All the way home" and "Ideas to travel more" respectively !