Word of the Day

[Queen of the Blue Twins]

Masamune no Hi

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

Ok. Sorry. People just seemed annoyed that they didn't know alot of them and I though one that might actually be used in a normal week would be appreciated. Won't happen again. redface

On the other side of it - I do keep coming back to see what other seriously obscure word this site is coming up with, so I guess it is still interesting. smile  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

yeasty: frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.  

[Dea Mariella]

echolalia: (sp?) a medical condition in which a person habitually repeats a word or two.

...this is my friend's fave word, and she said that word that she used as an echolaliac (in her head only) was echolalia. Just listen to the sound of it...echolalia...it just sounds nice. whee

Dea-chan  

[Dea Mariella]

Yami no Hitokiri

paladin: a champion of a cause.

Has anyone ever read the short story Paladin of the Lost Hour? I forget who it's written by, but it is available to read online in various places. I would recommend it to anyone.

Dea-chan  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

extemporaneous: composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment.  

[- Xenn be Twisted -]

This is interesting ^.- Could I suggest some? For school we have to write Vocabulary Cards and find the diffenitions of weird words so I have many swirling about my mind! Ambiguous, Obfuscate, Imperturbable, Excrete, and, many, many, more XD I have them pounded into my poor brain... sweatdrop  

[Knit Happens]

legerdemain lej-er-duh-MAYN noun
*1 : sleight of hand
2 : a display of skill and adroitness

Example sentence:
It was an impressive feat of legerdemain for Shane to take a dollar bill and instantly turn it into twenty nickels.

Did you know?
In Middle French, folks who were clever enough to fool others with fast-fingered illusions were described as "leger de main," literally "light of hand." English speakers condensed that phrase into a noun when they borrowed it in the 15th century and began using it as an alternative to the older "sleight of hand." (That term for dexterity or skill in using one's hands makes use of "sleight," an old word from Middle English that derives from an Old Norse word meaning "sly.") In more modern times, a feat of legerdemain can even be accomplished without using your hands, as in, for example, "an impressive bit of financial legerdemain."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.  

[Radio Chaos]

Wow! Some of these words I will probably not use very often. Those are a bit confusing  

[- Xenn be Twisted -]

socceridol1

Wow! Some of these words I will probably not use very often. Those are a bit confusing

Which words are you taking about for the second "Those"?  

[Shelton3369]

cohort:A group or band of people;A group of people sharing a common statistical factor (as age or membership in a class) in a demographic study.


Ultimately we could have the know-how to breed these groups of human beings -- called 'clones' after the Greek word for a throng -- to produce a cohort of super-astronauts or dustmen, soldiers or senators, each with identical physical and mental characteristics most suited to do the job they have to do.
-- William Breckon


Cohort derives from Latin cohors, "an enclosure, a yard," hence, "a division of an army camp," hence "a troop, a company," hence, "a division of the Roman army."  

[Knit Happens]

zaibatsu zye-BAHT-soo noun
: a powerful financial and industrial conglomerate of Japan

Example sentence:
As owners of a zaibatsu with interests in the insurance and banking industries, the family's
decisions had an undeniable impact on the Japanese economy.

Did you know?
"Zaibatsu" is a compound formed by the Japanese words "zai," meaning "money" or "wealth," and "batsu," meaning "clique" or "clan." The word refers to one of several large capitalist enterprises that developed in Japan after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and that expanded rapidly during World War I. Each zaibatsu was typically organized around a single family and controlled interests in multiple areas, such as mining, foreign trade, textiles, insurance, and especially banks. While zaibatsus were dissolved during the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II (around the time the word entered English), many of the individual companies that comprised them continued to be managed as they had been, and the term has survived.  

[stealth251]

Here's a huge word I learned from my college prof. You don't hear this everyday.

Mithridatism - Immunity to poison by gradually intaking the poison itself  

[Duke.Lychee]

ochlocracy: government by the mob; mob rule  

[Duke.Lychee]

tergiversation: evasion of a straightforward or clear-cut statement  

[SchwickilySargasmicBby]

serendipitos-luck, lucky