Words of the Day

[deedle at loop.com]

Sorry, just had to chime in here...

Angst
Provost
Beverage
Dung
Dangle
Confection
Farfetched
Lackadaisical
Wheelie
Reckon

Now, children, who can use these words in a sentence?
(Oughtn't we consider some kind of Bad TRP Contest, like the Hemingway.com
people have?)

-- deedle

>1. Miasma
>2. Confabulate
>3, Scry
>4. Penultimate
>5. Pirogue
>6. Mickle
>7. Deliquesce
>8. Screwworm
>9. Bisque
>a-and of course
>10. Waterproof

>Evening
>Pillow
>Nuance
>Scrum
>Listerine
>Ameliorate
>Triste
>Tryst
>Cupidity
>Merge

>> 1) engastrimyth (ventriloquist)
>> 2) adscititious (opposite of inherent)
>> 3) bebung (particular maneuver on the clavichord)
>> 4) cangue (portable pillory)
>> 5) digamy (2nd marriage)
>> 6) gavage (forcible feeding)
>> 7) hamesucken (assaulting a person in person's own home)
>> 8) intropunitive (blame oneself)
>> 9) malapert (presumptuous, saucy)
>> 10) sermuncle (sermonette)
>>
>> And a bonus : epeolatry (worship of words)

>1) steatopygous - fat-assed
>2) gamomanic - marriage crazed
>>