Word of the Day

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

bowdlerize: to remove or modify the parts considered offensive.  

[Cheerfulhope]

O.O Wow. I must be vocabulary-deficient because I barely know any of those words.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

incarnadine: pink or red; also, to redden.  

[Queen of the Blue Twins]

How about --

denotations - neutral dicitionary meanings.

smile  

[Masamune no Hi]

These word of the days are taken from a website, so we would use thos instead of ones we suggest.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

tractable: docile; manageable, governable.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

bromide: a commonplace or conventional saying.  

[Veritas Unae_Nanashi]

xanthic: yellow in colour  

[Raellie]

Myriane

What makes me laugh a little is that two of those words (maybe three, I'm not sure) are derived from French, which is my first language. Hehe... Oh and here's another rarely used word for you:

Logorrhea: Means in short that the person who suffers from that (yes, it is considered a mental disease, sometimes) speaks in excessive amounts.

You must be joking...
After all my years of going in and out of clinics and doctors' offices alike, I have come to be extremely anti-diagnostic. The fact this has become a word, a "disease," really makes me sick, a kind of sick I hope never gets diagnosed.

In other news...

Autassassinophilia: the paraphilia where a person becomes sexually aroused by fantasizing their own death in the hands of another.
They really have to feel they are in danger in order to be sexually aroused. Unfortunately, many of them get killed in the process.

That last bit always makes me laugh. x]  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

eddy: a current running contrary to a main current or in a circular direction.  

[Totensonntag]

Wow, you're making me feel stupid. I always thought I had a pretty decent sized vocabulary.

Now I feel sad..... V-V  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

imprecation: a curse.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

foofaraw: excessive or flashy ornamentation; also, a fuss over a trivial matter  

[(LD)Croaks]

idiosyncratic:
1. a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
2. the physical constitution peculiar to an individual.
3. a peculiarity of the physical or the mental constitution, esp. susceptibility toward drugs, food, etc.

The term denotes a non-immunological hypersensitivity to a substance, without connection to pharmalogical toxicity. Idiosyncratic stresses here the fact that other individuals would react differently, or not at all, and that the reaction is an individual one based on a specific condition of the one who suffers it. Most commonly, this is caused by an enzymopathy, congenital or acquired, so that the triggering substance cannot be processed properly in the organism and causes symptoms by accumulating or blocking other substances to be processed.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

cudgel: a short heavy stick.