November 2, 2009

Word of the Day

[IRENIC]\eye-REN-ik; -REE-nik\ , adjective;

1. Tending to promote peace; conciliatory.

My Sentence:

Fresh from a landslide victory over the once formidable iron Liberal or Coalition Party, the new Prime Minister elect, Labor Leader Kevin Rudd's first harmonic move was to deliver his famous tear jerking IRENIC Speech to the Aborigines of Australia to formally expressed forgiveness for the sufferings of the "Stolen Generation" from the hands of the white people on behalf of the Australian people.


Word Origin & History

irenic

1864, from Gk. eirenikos, from eirene "peace." Irenical "peaceful" is attested from 1660.