Vocabulary thread

[Sluggo]

Use the word left for you in a sentence, leave a good word for the next person. Make them work for it, no easy ones, but do give them one that is at least in the dictionary

The word I am leaving is:

Plebian

 

[GoldenBear]

Huh? I'm stumped.

 

[DaveJ]

"John preferred the aristocratic ways of his ancestors more than the plebian antics of his fellow roommates."

The word is:

Loquacious

 

[LightRider]

Those that are loquacious rarely have large vocabularies, much like this thread will point out.

Viscera or visceral.

 

[Asubit]

visceral bleeding has manifested a new level of pure death metal.

caveat

 

[LightRider]

Those that build your own rigs know all too well the general rule "caveat emptor", buyer beware.

vis-a-vis

 

[Sandor]

Often, when people come vis-a-vis with their fears, they will be stronger for it.

tenesmus

 

[shadowfaX]

After suffering severe tenesmus, the man decided to increase his daily intake of water and fiber.

commensurate

 

[Ulfwald]

Salary to "commensurate" with experience.

tenacious

 

[cherrytwist]

The St. Louis Blues must rally with a tenacious effort in tomorrow night's game after losing the series opener to Colorado.

delineate

 

[tigerbait]

In his latest article, Anand delineated the future of AMD processors.


gerrymander

 

[TripleJ]

A politician loves to gerrymander his way into office.

Have fun with this one: Callypygious

Sorry, spelt my word wrong!

 

[LordMagnusKain]

Jon, who was quite Callypygious, being as how he was gay and gay guys like that sort of thing, had a hard time trying to delineate to his plebian falowers the government incergency plan, when they represented a small group of about 10 1/2 drunken rednecks with guns. This was partly becase he was drunk himself, but this was mostly becase they had all not quite goten past the 3rd grade, and thus didn't quite understand why they "couln' jus stars up'n as race war; sos dem negroz wud chutup, ands theyz could run da contry"; in a sad twist of fate they all shot eachother in a horible Resivwar Dogs style shoot out just before bush was elected presedent.



my word:
taciturn.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

My teachers in elementary school aggreed that I was not at all taciturn in my classroom interaction.

probity

 

[TripleJ]

Sorry, I'm too late.

 

[TripleJ]

Probity doesn't come naturally.

frippet

 

[KaBudokan]

What do you do with a Japanese hamburger when it is done on one side?

Why, you frippet of course.


assuage

 

[Belegost]

Don't you realize you only screw everything in sight to assuage your fears of sexual impotence?

My word: clochard

 

[Theophilus]

My word:

Theophilus

 

[tim0thy]

to bridge the two words together and to keep the game going... here's my sentence and next word.

the clochards in new york city always hound you for money when you ride the train late at night.

Theophilus

 

[TripleJ]

BTW Kabudokan, a frippet is a female show-off.
Good try though.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Theophilus is a member of AT

 

[Zucchini]

not much was known about that idiot roman Theophilus.

Necrophelia

 

[thereds]

Necrophelia is something that is quite popular at UT Austin.

coagulation

 

[syzygy]

blood cannot achieve proper coagulation on a diet bereft of eseential vitamins and minerals.


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