Wednesday, June 28, 2006

new vocabularies i learnt

despite of omos drown in the burger-norm-boredom, i learn some new words from time to time, after the 'cohesion', which is quite a strong word to describe our work, today i came across this word: 'squalid'.

it is written in the job req: " to hav squalidly line for...." i was puzzled, so i asked my copywriter, she was puzzled too, later we found the meaning of 'squalid' as:

squal.id
adj.
  1. Dirty and wretched, as from poverty or lack of care. See Synonyms at dirty.
  2. Morally repulsive; sordid: “the squalid atmosphere of intrigue, betrayal, and counterbetrayal” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
squal'id.ly adv.
squal'id.ness or squa.lid'i.ty n.

pls excuse my poor pool of vocabularies in mind, but tht sentence in the job req really got me thinking hard...

1 comment:

C.T. Chua said...

Maybe it just means that it's a "dirty Job", but someone has to do it...you know, like that age-old adage.