déclassé

a. (fem. -�e pron. same)
  fallen or degraded from social class.

-tiscali.reference

From:
Slashdot | Programming Assignment Guide For CS Students: "Myself, I grew up in the 1970's and consider alcoholic beverages déclassé, but everyone has their own favorite intoxicant"

Editor's Note:
If you can't come up with a consise dictionary definition for a word, then you don't *really* know it. I had a good sense of this word from the context, but then again, you can't trust context from just any bozo on the web.

reify

      v : consider an abstract concept to be real



   [also: reified]



-dict.org







From: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/09/09/blacksmith.html



"Before more fully exploring the thesis of software developer as

reified smithy, an examination of the role of the bookkeeper would be

prudent, for the sake of juxtaposition, comparison, forecasting and

nuance."







Editors Note:



This article is a great example of prententious language, and is full of correctly used

twentyfive cent words.  However, in this case I think the author

misuses the word 'reified'.  It would make more sense to me if he had said

'nouveau', 'post modern', or even 'glorified'. Perhaps if he wanted to make a transition

to the next section of his essay he should have applied 'reified' to the subject of this sentance, his thesis.

exogenous

originating outside of the local environment; foreign, extraneous in origin.
www.imb.org/CPM/Glossary.htm

from:
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/09/09/blacksmith.html