Word of the Day

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30

Adjudicate

[ə-joo-dih-kayt]Part of speech: verb

Origin: latin, late 17th century

• To make an official decision or judgment
• To act as a judge

Examples of Adjudicate in a sentence

• The student council was required to adjudicate any accusations of cheating. 
• After years as a public defender he was ready for his promotion to adjudicate on the state supreme court. 

About Adjudicate

Adjudicate can act as both a transitive and an intransitive verb. As a transitive verb (the first definition), there is an object that is receiving the judgment. Adjudicate as an intransitive verb (second definition) is slightly easier to recognize because it will be followed by a preposition. You may adjudicate upon a certain issue, or adjudicate on a court.

Did you Know?

Adjudicate can be traced directly to the Latin verb “judicare,” meaning to judge. But go back just a little bit further to “jus,” the Latin word for law, and you’ll recognize the root of many of our legal terms. Take a closer look at judge, judicial, judgment, prejudice, jury, injury, justice, and perjury.

Reminder: Impromptu Challenge

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We have an Impromptu Challenge still open for entries.  You can find the prompt by following the Tag: Impromptu Challenge.

There isn't a word criteria, just something in response to the photo.  This is an overt effort to get people writing, just so you know.

I Have a Suggestion for the Cousins To Discuss...

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Lately, it seems that those of us who write MFU fanfic, except for spikesgirl58, are currently experiencing a writing lull. jantojones published a double drabble yesterday, but I think we can all agree that, for whatever reason, we're not being very productive.  I'm embarrassed to say that for the first time since I took over the Song Story Challenge, I was unable to publish anything for the January challenge.

Leap Year notwithstanding, February is short.  My suggestion is: Suspend all challenges for February to remove the pressure to produce.  Instead, how about we declare February a "free form" month and encourage ourselves to write whatever comes to our minds be they drabbles, one shots, gen, het & slash (in the appropriate venues, of course) of any length, even if it's only one sentence.

It's possible that someone might write something that inspires someone else to either continue in that vein or write something new.  If so, the original writer could be credited.   Also, maybe we could use this break to review the current challenges to determine if new challenges should be created and/or if any challenges should be put on hiatus or even discontinued.

What do you think, Cousins?