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Post by vuvu •°♡ on Dec 14, 2004 17:27:06 GMT -5
I like knowing big words so that I can use them to "scare" people sometimes. So why don't we post up some big terms and their simple definition just for fun?
I know that this isn't really an English class thing...but it is improving your vocabulary ain't it? ;D
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Post by Angie on Dec 14, 2004 19:07:17 GMT -5
Ooooooh, English class!!! ^_^ Need a teacher?
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Post by MHT off on Dec 15, 2004 0:42:04 GMT -5
How bout big words like suffucient or terminology or stuff!(ran out of big words... )
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Post by Shiho on Dec 15, 2004 2:32:54 GMT -5
OB- words. Obscure Obscene Obsolete ( I can't remember the spelling, or am I right?) Obituary Obese Obstacle ( I guess this is no big word) Obstinate
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Post by Tui on Dec 15, 2004 18:58:04 GMT -5
empyrean: the sky ((or heaven)) ineffable: Divine hoi polloi: the common people generally; the masses dulcet: Pleasing to the ear; melodious; harmonious. emolument-profit, gain. palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward. deprecate: to disapprove of strongly. bivouac: an encampment for the night. umbrage: suspicion of injury or wrong; offense. incipient: beginning to be; commencing; initial. dapple: a small spot or blotch. pugnacious: inclined to fighting. capitulate: to surrender under agreed conditions. susurrus: a whisper; a murmur; a rustling. thaumaturgy: magic. capacious: able to contain much; large; roomy. glower: to stare angrily or with a scowl. canorous: melodious; musical. effulgence: a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor. assuage: to soften; to ease, or lessen. repast: a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. spoonerism: the transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words. tenebrous: dark; gloomy. nescience: lack of knowledge. gewgaw: a showy trifle; a pretty but worthless bauble. exiguity: smallness; thinness; the quality of being meager. seriatim: in a series; one after another. tmesis: in grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word. chthonic: dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld. objurgate: express strong disapproval of. plethora: excess; superabundance. lissom: limber; supple; flexible; lithe. badinage: playful raillery; banter. Scary enough ((all I can remember))
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Post by Shiho on Dec 16, 2004 8:35:58 GMT -5
Wow Tui! I learn alot, but I never seem to remember them
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Post by Shiho on Dec 16, 2004 8:37:46 GMT -5
Palindrome! Oohhh.. I remember that!
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Post by Tui on Dec 16, 2004 18:49:30 GMT -5
((I get the word of the day...Okay I cheated for 3 words and checked my old mail Sue me)) ((new one)) recherche \ruh-sher-SHAY\, adjective: 1. Uncommon; exotic; rare. 2. Exquisite; choice. 3. Excessively refined; affected. 4. Pretentious; overblown. ((some examples of how it could be used)) . . . recherche topics interesting only to university specialists. In recent years, Garber's appetite for the rigors of theory seems to have diminished. The books have kept coming, but the italics-heavy meditations and the recherche terminology have receded. ((I'm sure you guys didn't read my entire last post. I know I didn't. Typing it was enough >,<))
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Post by vuvu •°♡ on Dec 17, 2004 19:08:55 GMT -5
Waaa, so many words tui-chan!! But what happened to your favourite word? "Hypnotism"?
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Post by Tui on Dec 18, 2004 1:08:43 GMT -5
^,^ do you want me to define it Vuvu?
((word of the day- permeate \PUR-mee-ayt\, transitive verb: 1. To spread or diffuse through. 2. To pass through the pores or openings of.
intransitive verb: To spread through or penetrate something.
Obey Vuvu.
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Post by vuvu •°♡ on Dec 18, 2004 1:15:17 GMT -5
So you're trying to penetrate through my mind? Sorry doesn't work this time Tui-chan
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Post by Tui on Dec 19, 2004 16:33:03 GMT -5
germane \juhr-MAYN\, adjective: Appropriate or fitting; relevant. and... 1. Being beyond consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; filled with grief; as, "a bereaved and disconsolate parent." 2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, "the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights." ((If anyone wants me to stop I can ^,^; )
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Post by vuvu •°♡ on Dec 19, 2004 22:43:43 GMT -5
LOL, by all means keep going Tui-chan *is amused by all the things Tui-chan puts up*
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Post by Shiho on Dec 20, 2004 6:08:11 GMT -5
Tui! KEEP GOING! *writing everything down*
Trebuchet (TRE-BOO-CHEY) *hehehehe*
A slighly tall and big catapult that were used in war during the middle ages.
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Post by Tui on Dec 21, 2004 10:37:49 GMT -5
((okay ^,^; ) etiolate \EE-tee-uh-layt\, transitive verb: 1. (Botany) To bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight. 2. To make pale or sickly. 3. To make weak by stunting the growth or development of. intransitive verb: (Botany) To become bleached or whitened, as when grown without sunlight. languid \LANG-gwid\, adjective: 1. Drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion; weak; weary; heavy. 2. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness. 3. Slow; lacking vigor or force. ((Two today ^,^; )
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