Expand Your Vocabulary

[Ancilla Domini]

Ailurophile - a lover of cats

Ebullience - the quality of cheerfulness

Interlard - to intersperse (but better ;))

[KarenJoanna]

Wow. Never knew these words existed. I need to read the dictionary more often. lol

[Nihil Obstat]

Here is a fun one. Peruse traditionally means the opposite of how most people use it. Most of the time when you hear it used, it is in the sense of "to glance quickly" or something along those lines.

pe·ruse
pəˈro͞oz/
verb formal
read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way.
"he has spent countless hours in libraries perusing art history books and catalogues"
examine carefully or at length.
"Laura perused a Caravaggio"

[Luigi]

There a website called FreeRice. The link won't stick in here, but type in the name and add .com - you'll get there.

 

You donate rice to the UN with every correct answer. 

 

This is a good source way to build your vocab, although at the upper levels the selections are kind of ridiculous.

 

Build your vocab and feed hungry people. It's a spiritual and a corporal work of mercy rolled into one - educate the ignorant (yourSELF!) while you feed the hungry. 

Edited May 27, 2014 by Luigi

[maximillion]

I use freerice.......and yes, some of the words are ridiculous, but its fun, it's free and they give rice.

 

 

Tintinnabulation....the resonance of a bell that continues to be heard after it has been struck.

[brandelynmarie]

Lackadaisical...to be listless or carelessly lazy...lacking enthusiasm.


I always picture daisies when I use this word. It's one of my favorites :blush:

[Ancilla Domini]

Lackadaisical...to be listless or carelessly lazy...lacking enthusiasm.


I always picture daisies when I use this word. It's one of my favorites :blush:

 

Oh, I love that word!

[Not The Philosopher]

Fuliginous - Sooty/Smoky/The colour of soot

[Credo in Deum]

Bumfuzzle: confuse, perplex, fluster.

Bamboozle: to deceive by underhanded methods.

[chrysostom]

Tintinnabulation....the resonance of a bell that continues to be heard after it has been struck.

 

In addition, this word is used to describe a prominent musical technique of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, whose music I find to be among the most beautiful of modern times.  :)

Edited May 27, 2014 by chrysostom

[chrysostom]

In "Lord of the Flies", author William Golding coined the word "flink", a cross between "flick" and "blink", to describe the visual impression of short foamy waves in the distance, if my memory serves me right.

 

And one of my favourite words is "Brobdingnagian", referring to the giant race in Gulliver's Travels and meaning, well, "giant".  It's so much fun to roll out on the tongue.  :D

Edited May 27, 2014 by chrysostom

[Credo in Deum]

Antecedence: 

 

1. the act or fact of going before; precedence.

2. priority.

 

[maximillion]

Abrogate

 

To repeal or do away with.

[Catherine Therese]

For my fellow West-Wing addicts out there:

Acalculia - an acquired inability to perform simple arithmetic functions.

[Nihil Obstat]

Acalculia - an acquired inability to perform simple arithmetic functions.

There is an easier term for this: accountant.

 

My accounting professor always used to say, CA stands for "can't add".