Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Happy Holidays!


The LionCity Toastmasters Club wishes
everyone

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!


~ LionCity Executive Committee 2006/2007

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Word of the Day: Exuberant

27th November 2006

The members and guests who convened for the chapter meeting on 27th December had a lot of fun incorporating the word of the day into their conversational and presentation skills.

Word of the Day: Exuberant
- adjective

1. enthusiastic: lavishly abundant: an exuberant welcome for the hero
2. abounding in vitality; extremely joyful and vigorous
3. extremely good; overflowing; plentiful; exuberant health
4. profuse in growth or production; luxuriant; superabundant: exuberant
5. extreme in degree, size, or extent


President of the club, Kheng Chuan took on the role to “Spot the Word” during the meeting session. Beautiful phases and sentence structures were adopted by both members and guests. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.

Rhyming

“A man gets excited by anything that walks, talks and wears a skirt”

Alliteration

“Smiles, simple and strong”
“practice, practice and more practice”
“when you fail to plan, you plan to fail”


Metaphor/ Mental Images

“that gave me an adrenaline rush”
“take a step back”
“digest information, digest knowledge”
“hit it on the nail”
“as beautiful as cindy Crawford”
“bubbly personality”
“nerve-wrecking”

Power Statement

“praise her to no end”
“when you use te3chnology effectively, there can be opportunities”
“data can be crunched”
“the quest of immortality/technology”
“today I advocate to you”
“market your availability”

Others
“think tank”
“opportunities abound”
“the things that will solve this is wisdom”
“watershed”