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I Love to expand my vocabulary. We should post interesting or unusual words with their meanings that we could learn and have fun with. (:
Nitehawk, did you see the National Spelling Bee on TV this evening? The words those kids can spell are amazing. Words even Old Cricket doesn't know! I was wondering if any of our Chatterboxers might be in the bee, but I guess it'd be hard to make time for studying all those words and Chatterbox.
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submitted by Nitehawlk, age 3.25, Somewhere out t
(May 28, 2009 - 9:38 pm)
(May 28, 2009 - 9:38 pm)
Purpuraceous: Having the quality of being purple-ish
Pupaphobia: Fear of.... puppets
Arachabutaphobia: Fear of... peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
Defibrulator: A medical device used to restart the heart
Finally, my favorite:
Hippopotamonstrasesquipedaliaphobia: Fear of... long words
:D
(May 29, 2009 - 5:08 am)
That last one, is it really real?
(June 3, 2009 - 10:00 pm)
It is. I've heard of it before.
(June 6, 2009 - 3:55 pm)
These are a couple of my favorites:
effervescent (oh, I love that word! Sorry.): bubbly or vivacious
opulent: lavish (ok, so that one's not so unusual)
interpolate (a word that shows my math-geekyness and my brother's computer-geekyness that spills over into our conversation): MSWord has several definitions. I'll only include the math one - to estimate the value of a mathematical function that lies between known values, often by means of a graph. Woohooo! Such an awesome word!!! Ok, sorry again. =D
And one that is a cool, sensation-packed word that I hate because of the oily, greasy, just-plain-bulging feeling it has: corpulent, meaning obese.
You may have notcied that it's not so much what they mean so much as how they feel. Kind of strange, but that's the way I am, somehow.
-EH the enthusiastic lover of words
(June 4, 2009 - 9:48 am)
Read anything by Ammon Shea. He read the entire OED. Awesome!
My favourite is probably heterodogmatizer: one who has opinions different from the ones generally held. Example: I heterodogmatize regarding Twilight.
Another good one is agathokakological: comprised of both good and evil. I used it on my teacher ("I consider the Amish to be agathokakological") and she ignored me. My teacher detests me. There are so many horror stories I could relate... sorry. Rambling.
OOOH, and GUESS WHAT? *becomes fervisherly excited* You know when you wake up in the morning, and there's that gunk in yours eyes, and you always just thought it was called gunk that's in your eyes when you wake up? THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT! GOUND!! G-O-U-N-D! HOW MARVELOUS IS THAT?
Sorry... I just recently discovered that word, and started hypervenilating (well, almost), because I had always wondered if there was a word for that... And there is! Yippee! :) *wacks out again*
(June 4, 2009 - 3:28 pm)
And sarcast- a speaker or writer who's sarcastic. Sarcastic is derived from a Greek word meaning to tear like dogs. *grins* *points at self*
(June 5, 2009 - 3:38 pm)
And sarcast- a speaker or writer who's sarcastic. Sarcastic is derived from a Greek word meaning to tear like dogs. *grins* *points at self*
(June 5, 2009 - 3:38 pm)
OHHHHH!!!! GOUND!! :D:D:D
(June 5, 2009 - 3:54 pm)
YAY! I'm not the only one overexcited about that! (just that I thought it might be minnutely weird to like a word meaning "gunk in one's eyes when one wakes up.")
(June 6, 2009 - 10:01 am)
Haha, trust me, you aren't!! When my writing class starts up again in September, I'm going to tell that to everybuggy, and they'll be amazed. :):)
(June 6, 2009 - 6:17 pm)
Yeah, I liked it and told it to my mom. She liked it, too.
-EH
(June 11, 2009 - 9:06 am)
I'd like to be in it next year, but I need more info.
(June 6, 2009 - 3:48 pm)
decuman: [Adjective]{DEK-yoo-munh} extremly large.
xanthodontous:{adjective} Meaning Having yellow teeth
Anyway, these are just a few odd words I thought were interesting. I love looking them up and reading them! Although I have never been in a spelling bee, it sounds like it would be hard yet fun!
(June 6, 2009 - 9:11 pm)
Ooh! Cool!
(June 7, 2009 - 11:36 am)
I read somewhere that the prefix 'xan' means 'yellow.' As in 'xanthophyll.'
(June 8, 2009 - 8:07 am)