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Fun words you've learned recently
2006-01-25, 5:07 PM #1
It's amazing. Senior in high school, and I still learn something new everyday.
Apotheosis: Divine glorification, to become a god

-Post any new words you've learned recently that are really interesting.
2006-01-25, 5:14 PM #2
Fairly recently I came across Vigesimation - the killing of every 20th person
2006-01-25, 5:20 PM #3
autochthones - Indigenous peoples
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2006-01-25, 5:24 PM #4
Yonic is a fun word.

"A yoni is like a phallus, only female.

Anything vaguely oblong appears phallic to our post-Freudian eyes. Anything with a hole may legitimately be called yonic. Donuts, for example, are yonic."
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2006-01-25, 5:59 PM #5
Predilection: an established preference.

It was dictionary.com's word of the day yesterday
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2006-01-25, 7:07 PM #6
Gelatinous, fangoriously. Those are the most recent words, anyway, but still a while ago. <.<
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2006-01-25, 7:15 PM #7
Methotically

as in

"I methotically stroked the meat loaf"
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2006-01-25, 7:25 PM #8
Originally posted by petmc20:
Methotically

as in

"I methotically stroked the meat loaf"

:eek:
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2006-01-25, 8:25 PM #9
Apoptosis: cellular suicide (in a nutshell)
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2006-01-25, 8:29 PM #10
Originally posted by petmc20:
Methotically

as in

"I methotically stroked the meat loaf"

Perhaps "Methodically"?

-Dunno.
2006-01-25, 8:32 PM #11
apple: A kind of fruit, typically red, but often orange, yellow, or green on the outside.
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2006-01-25, 8:37 PM #12
the: Used before singular or plural nouns and noun phrases that denote particular, specified persons or things

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2006-01-25, 8:42 PM #13
teh: Common mispelling of "The", used to emphasize gerunds.

-Seriously, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh
2006-01-25, 11:02 PM #14
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2006-01-26, 2:08 AM #15
It's funny that almost every time I learn some new English word (in a book, ie) I see it shortly afterwards somewhere else, like on massassi. Or I get the opportunity to use it in a conversation.
Sorry for the lousy German
2006-01-26, 2:18 AM #16
Foibles - 1. A minor weakness or failing of character.
2. The weaker section of a sword blade, from the middle to the tip.

I think it's sounds like a really interesting cereal. "Would you like some foibles this morning?"
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2006-01-26, 2:46 AM #17
i looked up awesome in the dictionary and found a picture of me.
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2006-01-26, 3:13 AM #18
As a counter-example?

:p
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2006-01-26, 5:03 AM #19
are you sure you werent looking in the antonymary
2006-01-26, 6:34 AM #20
I moved to Florida a few years ago from Connecticut. Since then I've learned words like "mayonaise".

"Mayonaise a lotta peeple in here!"

When I heard that, I sat in a corner, sucked my thumb, stared into space, and kept on singing Connecticut's anthem.
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2006-01-26, 8:46 AM #21
Originally posted by KnightRider2000:
I moved to Florida a few years ago from Connecticut. Since then I've learned words like "mayonaise".

"Mayonaise a lotta peeple in here!"

When I heard that, I sat in a corner, sucked my thumb, stared into space, and kept on singing Connecticut's anthem.


Gotta love that Southern drawl.
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2006-01-26, 9:10 AM #22
Knifular:

1. Of knives.
2. Resembling a knife.
3. Acting in a way that resembles the use of a knife. "He brandished the pencil in a knifular fashion."
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2006-01-26, 9:15 AM #23
Ummm, lexeme maybe? Though its not really new. Though I did learn that all the synonyms for lexeme are word, symbol, symbolic form, and token.
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2006-01-26, 9:21 AM #24
Can we do other languages?
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