What's Your Word for the Day? Showing 1,201-1,250 of 3,049

[David]

I am abashed, benighted, chastised, downcast, etc.

My word today is from Hindi:

juggernaut, from jagganath, a huge cart, out of whose way the wise hie themselves.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

My word for the day (most appropriate given the mathematical abilities of my very average class this year).....
dactylonomy - the act of counting on one's fingers.

[David]

Wait a minute. What are these strip malls? Ecdysiastic caravanserais?

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

gutter minds, but probably fairly accurate

today's word: holistic

[Ruth]

Holistic, adj., meaning full of little punctures, tears and perforations.

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

That is a lovely pun HOLE-listic, Ruth.
Next you'll be saying its a list of holes in the neighborhood.

[David]

Perforated mackerel, Ruth, you are amusing!

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

sesquipedalian

I live with a herd of semi-feral sesquipedalia.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

So they are caterpillars?

[David]

Do they have hookahs?

[Ruth]

Which side makes you taller?

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

Never thought of sesquipedalia as vermiform. They would be classified as bookworms, I suppose.

How about anthelmintic: a vermifuge.

[David]

"The one your mother gives you
Doesn't do anything at all . . .
Ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall."

[Ruth]

Bingo, David.

[David]

Pillar of salt-to

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

Good one, David

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[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Ummmm....this isn't the word association thread guys :-)

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

New Word
ostensible : being such in appearance : plausible rather than demonstrably true or real [the ostensible purpose for the trip:]

[David]

This brings to mind "putative."

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

Well, I guess I never really thought of what this one meant, because it doesn't mean at all what I thought.

peripatetic : of, relating to, or given to walking : moving or traveling from place to place : itinerant.

[Meridee]

One of my favs - onomatopoeia - Boom! Der it iz!

[David]

propinquity

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

Do you remember Dobie Gillis?: Nothing propinqs like propinquity.

conglomeration

[Ken, Moderator]

I'm anti-pinq, personally.

[David]

You're pro-pinq witty, then.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Yeehah!!

(That's my word for today)

[Tyler]

Peripatetic has crossed my mind recently because I've been reading about Greece's "peripatetic" philosophers.

Ostensible and putative beg to be joined by their first cousin, apparent.

[Ken, Moderator]

I became apparent, to my ever-living regret. Man, but they're expensive!

[Tyler]

Consider them an investment with a putative payoff some day.

[Ken, Moderator]

You mean a visit every month or so when I'm drooling in the convalescent home?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Presumably they will pay for the home....especially if you spend it all now!!! Either that or they will have to look after you!

[Robyn]

maun⋅der   /ˈmɔndər/

–verb (used without object) 1. to talk in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way.

(Which I guess could have a word association also :)

[David]

You can come back and haunt them after you die. You can be a character in their graphic novel.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I would David, except that I don't believe in ghosts!!

[David]

They believe in you, which is more to the point.

I'm reading Pelagia and the Black Monk, which mentions "stuffed zander," apparently a game fish similar to pike. I like pike, and take a gander at my zander."

[Robyn]

perspicacious ~ as in 'astute, insightful' ~ which is how I am feeling today :)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Nice one David.....and Rob, you are always pers....perspi......astute!

[David]

"coulibiac," a Russian dish--salmon baked in a dough shell, featured in the Quebequois film, "The Decline of the American Empire". Great film.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Yuuuummmmmm!!!!!

Nelipot - someone who walks around in bare feet

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

I always knew there was a word to describe that particular proclivity.

[Lea]

Someone recently told me that you can sign up to receive an interesting word every day at: http://wordsmith.org/awad/

[M]

My favourite words lately are "inertia", "oubliette", "insatiable" and "enamoured".

I'm always intrigued by words. It's just a pain when others don't know what they mean!

[Ken, Moderator]

I oubliez what "oubliette" means.

[David]

A secret dungeon where those immured there are forgotten (oublier is French for "forget").

[M]

"Oubliette" translates to "forgotten places" - it usually refers to a dungeon-like room which is only accessible through a small entry in the ceiling.

So oubliez naturally suits, as it translates to "forget". (Or so I think anyway)

[Savvy]

CRAPAUD

Noun 1. crapaud - large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog

[Ken, Moderator]

Reminds me of the Latin name for a common robin: Turdus migratorius. Translate at your own risk.

[M]

That made my day xD
I have some serious pity for that frog now, as well as the robin.

[Jan (the Gryphon)]

jeremiad, a prolonged lamentation or complaint ; also : a cautionary or angry harangue

I actually looked it up for the spelling and was pleased to find I had spelled it correctly.

[Robyn]

insouciance
lack of care or concern; a lighthearted attitude. — insouciant, adj.

Although I like this better:
Noun 1. insouciance - the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you

It's a great word for Hangman because there are so many vowels