Word of the Day: Wrangle

by Jul 24, 2019The Dictionary Project: Word of the Day

wran-gle / ˈraNGɡəl
 
verb
 
1.      to argue or bicker in a noisy or peevish manner
A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour.
Timothy Shay Arthur, 1809-1885
 
2.      to tend or herd
It pays to be in the best shape possible when you’re wrangling the largest reptiles on Earth!
Terri Irwin, 1964-
 
3.      to engage in an argument
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1882
 
4.      to obtain by maneuvering
They’re coming at us so fast – the gizmos, the doodads, the gimcracks, the wonderments – so ubiquitously, so overwhelmingly, we’ve not yet found how best to wrangle each new miracle into genuine usefulness.
From ‘You Aren’t Special’ by David McCullough, Jr., ?-
 
noun
 
1.      a noisy dispute
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle.
From ‘Decline and Fall’ by Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966
 
2.      an action or instance of bickering
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
Euripides, c. 480-406 BCE

Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club.  In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year.  They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students.  Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project.  They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study.  Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.

By PDG Scott McLaughlin

District Governor 2019-2020
PDG Scott is currently serving as an Assistant Rotary Public Image Coordinator for Zone 29 (Region 36). Scott is a member of the Paul Harris Society and Major Donor.Scott is a Rotarian in the Kearney Dawn Rotary Club of Kearney, NE

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