Learned a new word recently? Share it by posting it here; give its definition.... and hey, gotta live dangerously, right?.... use it in a sentence.
I'll have the first word
Gelid - very cold; icy.
The wicked witch rested her gelid fingers on the newborn baby's bald head.
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
limacine - of, relating to, or resembling a slug
The limacine couch potato is distressed, he cannot reach the remote.
Snow White is doing dishes again, 'cause what else can you do with seven itty bitty men?
I've got another one!
gustation - the act or sensation of tasting
The gustation of the chocolate cream pie almost made me lose consciousness last night...just kidding
I love new vocabulary! Is anyone else going to join in?
Snow White is doing dishes again, 'cause what else can you do with seven itty bitty men?
Tyro - a novice; neophyte; a beginner in learning anything. (from Latin tiro, meaning 'recruit').
The ten-year-old tyro from Turkey has just unseated the long-time undisputed World Cheese Chomping champion.
Last edited by bouquin; 05-17-2008 at 06:15 AM.
Oppugn - to assail by criticism, argument, or action; to call in question; to dispute, oppose, contradict.
The employees oppugned management's decision to close the factory in Florida.
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Vulpine - of or resembling a fox; cunning or crafty.
The vulpine vagabond stole the unsuspecting students' sandwiches.
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
decorticate - peel
I can't eat apples unless they are decorticated.
Snow White is doing dishes again, 'cause what else can you do with seven itty bitty men?
philippic - any speech or discourse of bitter denunciation; a tirade.
The preacher's philippic concerning church members who marry non-believers was ardently applauded by the elders.
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
fusty :
- having a stale smell; moldy; musty.
- old fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like.
- stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.
The little old lady refused to let go of her family's fusty furniture.
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"The trouble is, you get used to hell," ...
~ from THE FIFTH CHILD (by Doris Lessing)
Disport-To frolic or amuse.
internecine :
- of or pertaining to conflict or struggle within a group, organization, or nation.
- mutually destructive; ruinous or fatal to both sides.
- characterized by great slaughter; deadly.
(origin: Latin - to kill out, exterminate)
The megacorporation collapsed because of incessant internecine clashes among its major stockholders.
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currently reading : The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories (by Yann Martel)
Last edited by bouquin; 03-25-2008 at 04:45 AM.
persiflage
- light, bantering talk or writing.
- a frivolous or flippant style of treating a subject.
The young man's persiflage did not endear him to his girlfriend's grandfather.
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currently reading : Billy Bathgate (by E.L. Doctorow)
discalciate (sp?)
to take off one's shoes.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Insouciant [adj]: casually unconcerned
Her insouciant reaction spoke volumes about her real affections towards him.
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
agglomerating: a mass of things clustered together.
agglomerating objects into unweidly groups (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo pg 81
Silence is golden. But in the absence of silence, classical music is the avenue which chaos is turned into harmonious order.
Yes... I am THIS weird
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