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 Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:51 am
bowdlerize: to remove or modify the parts considered offensive.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:32 pm
O.O Wow. I must be vocabulary-deficient because I barely know any of those words.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:36 am
incarnadine: pink or red; also, to redden.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:25 am
How about --
denotations - neutral dicitionary meanings.
smile
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:21 am
These word of the days are taken from a website, so we would use thos instead of ones we suggest.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:49 am
tractable: docile; manageable, governable.
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:10 am
bromide: a commonplace or conventional saying.
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:44 pm
xanthic: yellow in colour
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:51 pm
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]
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:17 am
eddy: a current running contrary to a main current or in a circular direction.
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:40 am
Wow, you're making me feel stupid. I always thought I had a pretty decent sized vocabulary.
Now I feel sad..... V-V
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:09 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:57 am
foofaraw: excessive or flashy ornamentation; also, a fuss over a trivial matter
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:47 am
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.
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:14 am
cudgel: a short heavy stick.
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