http://www.quadrivialquandary.com Challenge: use four words of the day in one sentence that illustrates their meanings. en-us <a href="http://wordsmith.org/words/exscind.html">exscind</a>, <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/front_runner">front runner</a>, <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/05/19/">atone</a>, <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2013/05/19.html?src=rss">darg</a> Quadrivial Quandary Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.quadrivialquandary.com/archive/2013/05/19 http://www.quadrivialquandary.com/archive/2013/05/19 <p> &nbsp;</p> <p class="p1"> <span class="s1">&ldquo;To late to atone&rdquo;, the devil drawled, having come to his favorite part of his darg, excinding the souls of those who dared bargain with him--and in contests for the soul, he was always the front runner--but Darby smiled, &ldquo;the devil&rsquo;s in the details, and I wrote the fine-print: you get my soul today, but my heart, mind, and body tomorrow, a day that never comes, so take my soul (I doubt I&rsquo;ll miss it) and join me in a drink, a corpse-reviver for me and for you--something with bitters I imagine&rdquo;.</span></p> fdrisc Sun, 19 May 2013 11:51:02 -0400 http://www.quadrivialquandary.com/resolutions/4841 http://www.quadrivialquandary.com/resolutions/4841 The Australian media mogul managed to exscind the presumed front runner from the presidential race altogether, by the ruse of asking her to explain how she hoped to atone for having beaten her husband, and in response to the felicitations that poured forth from his adoring staff, he modestly dropped his gaze to the floor and murmured, "oh, it was nothing -- all in a darg!" Gravely Sun, 19 May 2013 09:13:26 -0400 http://www.quadrivialquandary.com/resolutions/4840 http://www.quadrivialquandary.com/resolutions/4840