Definitions: The Ultra New Revised Standard Version

By J.T. Beckman

Juxtapose for a minute that you were planning an innuendo and later recovering in the windward. To the simple-minded, the previous sentence will be difficult if not impossible to understand. We need be neither simple-minded nor simple-minded.

Fear not! Definitions: The Ultra New Revised Standard Version is available in book form to assist you in understanding the improved meanings of everyday words and even the lesser-known words.

Although very rarely seen these days, a farthing is best viewed with prescription glasses (if visually impaired), with binoculars, or even utilizing a telescope. Why is a farthing better viewed by one or more of these modes? Definitions: The Ultra New Revised Standard Version will guide you to understand why and guide you to understand so much more!

Give a copy of Definitions: The Ultra New Revised Standard Version to your local, state, and national representatives and senators. When they use the words and the definitions of this book in their arguments and interactions, the American people will have a higher opinion of them because at last they will begin to make sense.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781449797539

J.T. Beckman

Dr. Beckman, father of four, lives with his wife, Usha, in Beaumont, Texas. This displaced Kansas man has been practicing audiology in Port Arthur, Texas, for over twenty-five years. J.T. is one of many awesome active members of Beaumont Bible Church.

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Interior Graphics/Art Credit: Matthew Skinner

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ISBN: 978-1-4497-9752-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4497-9754-6 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4497-9753-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013910739

WestBow Press rev. date: 06/19/2013

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter 1 The Animal Kingdom

Chapter 2 Life in General

Chapter 3 The International Scene

Chapter 4 People

Chapter 5 Physical/Medical

Chapter 6 Sports

Chapter 7 Helpful Terminology

Acknowledgements

To my beloved wife Usha, thank you for your help on this book and for your encouragement. I will do my best to keep you smiling and laughing. Thanks, Sofie for your help too.

To my children: J.D., Elsa, Sofie, and Sonja, thank you for the joy you bring me. I am proud of all of you.

I dedicate this book to my dad, Rev. Axel V. Beckman, from whom I inherited a love for words. And I dedicate this book to my brother Jim Beckman, whom I loved and admired, and will always remember the words we could share only by texting, in the end.

I further dedicate this book to all who have enjoyed the Word of the Day entries on Facebook over the last couple of years. This book is the result of your encouragement!

I thank Matthew Skinner, artist extraordinaire, for his awesome chapter illustrations and the magnificent cover art. You’re brilliant, Matthew!

Foreword

Have you ever seen the picture, The Laughing Christ? The first time I saw it I was dumbfounded, never contemplating before that our Savior would do such a thing. Jesus—laugh? Other people had similar reactions as it was completely different than any other prior artistic interpretations of Jesus.

Jesus spent a little over three years in ministry from the receiving of the Holy Spirit after His baptism in the Jordan River through His crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension. In that brief time, He taught, He healed, He confounded the Pharisees and Sadducees with Truth, and He performed many miracles. God in the flesh, tabernacled among the people He created—the people He was born to save.

I have often wondered what those three years must have been like between Jesus and His twelve disciples. We read in the Word about moments of anger, jealousy, and rivalry between the disciples as they lived with each other and ministered together with their Teacher.

There can be no doubt that there must have been moments of clowning around, ribbing one-another, or performing pranks. Anytime a group of guys get together, even for a short time, there is going to be a lot of ribbing and laughter involved as well. The way that Jesus told stories and parables, He probably told the best of jokes. Don’t you think He must have laughed too, similar to that Laughing Christ Picture?

Jesus was also great at playing around with words—the Master Wordsmith. As He was speaking with Peter about building His Church He used Petros and petra as a play on words to make His point. And we recall how He taught His soon-to-be disciples who were professional fishermen to become fishers of men. Jesus was great with words and His wordsmithing is memorable and unmatched.

This book is intended to bring laughter to the reader through humorous definitions to both familiar and unusual words found in the standard dictionary. There are also more challenging words where the reader may have to contemplate the definition a little longer than the more predictable ones.

Often we look at something just one way for a