cavort kuh-VORT, intransitive verb:
1. To bound or prance about.
2. To have lively or boisterous fun; to behave in a high-spirited, festive manner.

Cavort is perhaps an alteration of curvet, “a light leap by a horse” (with the back arched or curved), from Italian corvetta, “a little curve,” from Middle French courbette, from courber, “to curve,” from Latin curvare, “to bend, to curve,” from curvus, “curved, bent.”

intrepid in-TREP-id, adjective:

Fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit.

Intrepid comes from Latin intrepidus, “calm,” from in-, “not” + trepidus, “anxious, disturbed.”

Synonyms: dauntless, resolute, daring, valiant, heroic.

Tom posted 25 things you need to keep in mind if you write a newspaper column by Keith Waterhouse and suggested that they apply to weblogs as well. Very interesting stuff…especially points #2, 5, 12, 16, 19, and 24.

Working on some writing, but doing it on paper, via pen. I’ll transcribe what I find to be interesting.

along hatt-baby, and such… what is this – http://www.btinternet.com/~david.st/b3ta/ ???

deracinate dee-RAS-uh-nayt, transitive verb:
1. To pluck up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
2. To displace from one’s native or accustomed environment.

Deracinate comes from Middle French desraciner, from des-, “from” (from Latin de-) + racine, “root” (from Late Latin radicina, from Latin radix, radic-). The noun form is deracination.

cormorant KOR-muhr-uhnt noun

1. Any of the seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, having a hooked bill with a pouch under it, a long neck and webbed feet.
2. A greedy person.

Middle English cormeraunt, from Middle French cormorant, from Old French cormareng, from corp, raven + marenc, of the sea, from Latin marinus.