"Can you help me build my vocabulary" game

Fransiscan43 · Post by **Fransiscan43** » 12 Mar 2013, 11:29

Oxymoron: A combination of two contradictory or incongruous terms

Noun:

"Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear" (John Milton's Paradise Lost.)

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Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 12 Mar 2013, 18:47

Xiphisternum - Sword.

The author Robert E. Howard wrote Xiphisternum and sorcery stories.

I next.

lady_charlie · Post by **lady_charlie** » 20 Mar 2013, 16:46

ides 15th day of March, May, July, or October or the 13th day of any other month in the ancient Roman calendar this day and the seven days preceding it

Beware the ides of March!!!!

Fransiscan43 · Post by **Fransiscan43** » 20 Mar 2013, 22:39

Dilettante: Having only a very superficial interest in any branch of the arts or knowledge.

Noun:

He posed as an intellectual of literature and the Arts but was intact exposed as a dilettante.

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FNAWrite · Post by **FNAWrite** » 21 Mar 2013, 09:16

This game will not build vocabulary if we provide false definitions.

Xiphisternum does NOT mean sword.

As the saying goes you could look it up.

Back to you letter I

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 21 Mar 2013, 19:04

Sorry about that, I was looking at the wrong thing.

Irenic - Promoting peace.

Its a shame that much of the world is not irenic.

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asmaahsan · Post by **asmaahsan** » 24 Mar 2013, 16:21

Bighuey, you threw away your Webster I see. If you don't check before posting, you get scolded here. Serves you right!

Xiphisternum - n. pl. xiph·i·ster·na (-n)
The posterior and smallest of the three divisions of the sternum, below the gladiolus and the manubrium. Also called xiphoid, xiphoid process.

It's a medical term, the lowest part of the Breastbone. Don't ever catch a doctor reading you saying its a sword unless you plan to take the Xiphisternum of some poor lab skeleton and use it in self Defence! A very odd behavior that would be!

rachitic - affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets; "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient"

I fear that if I don't top my daily calcium and vitamin intake, I may end up being a rachitic old lady.

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melodique · Post by **melodique** » 24 Mar 2013, 16:56

My kind of game...I can't get DH to play Scrabble or Boggle with me anymore because he says I use made up words. Qat is too a word...

Allegro - ADVERB
quickly: at a quick and lively tempo (used as a musical direction)
NOUN
piece of music played allegro: a piece of music, or a section of a piece, played allegro

An example of an allegro is the third movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8.

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Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 24 Mar 2013, 19:59

Xanthic - Yellow or yellowish in color.

With the last rain, the field next to my house is xanthic in color from the wildflowers that have come up.

A next.

asmaahsan · Post by **asmaahsan** » 25 Mar 2013, 03:55

a la mode - in the current fashion or style
-with ice cream on top or on the side;

When Mcdonalds came up with their recipe of apple pie a la mode, topped with strawberry sauce, I couldn't eat enough of it.

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Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 25 Mar 2013, 09:05

Lavation - To wash, a washing.

About once a week I give my clothes a good lavation.

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asmaahsan · Post by **asmaahsan** » 25 Mar 2013, 09:36

Attraction - allure, appeal

For us, it was never an attraction for each other ; it was rather a meeting of minds.

(writing a simple word because I like this sentence.)

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Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 25 Mar 2013, 09:56

Tango - A dance from Cuba.

One of Tom Leher's crazy songs was the Masochism Tango.

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asmaahsan · Post by **asmaahsan** » 25 Mar 2013, 10:29

Attunement - Attunement is a form of energy medicine originally developed by Lloyd Arthur Meeker (1907 – 1954) and his colleagues.

Since I had my second level Reiki attunement, I feel more at peace with myself as my negative blocks have been removed miraculously.

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