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Ame Yuki Kaze

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:14 pm


toothsome: delicious; attractive; luscious.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:14 pm


Shinobi 1977
In the interest of expanding our collective vocabulary:

Word of the Day

redivivus: living again; revived; restored

My new favorate word! Like the Shichinintai!

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:52 am


countermand: to revoke (a former command) or recall by a contrary order.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:29 am


expropriate: to deprive of possession; also, to transfer (property) to oneself.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:50 am


perambulate: to stroll; to walk through or over.
PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:35 am


contradistinction: distinction by contrast.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:15 am


ululate: to howl; to wail.
PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:44 pm


::Giggles slightly::
I love the english language,
But I still find that some of our words are quite hilarious.
::Nods::

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:39 am


crapulous: sick from, or marked by, excessive drinking.
PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:17 pm


Greatest word of all time:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

The fear of large words.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:17 pm


parvenu: an upstart; one newly risen in class or economic status.
PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:35 am


manse: a large and imposing residence.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:31 am


uxorious: excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:33 pm


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uxorious: excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.

From uxor (or similar) meaning wife, I'm guessing, as I seem to remember that uxoricide means the killing of one's wife. I know many -icide words...

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:40 am


Ides: the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
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