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Originally posted by S-a-M-u-E-l This may be dumb, but i like to build up my vocabulary, and get alot of good words into my vernacular. so i guess, just post one good word and the definition of that word ill start plethora - a wide selection of/many of

Good word....I use it quite a bit. The key to a worthlessly large vocabulary is knowing how/when to use the big words though

One I like to throw in occasionally:

puerile - childish, silly, juvenile

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puerile? hah...if its that complicated, lets put a method of how to pronounce it.

PURE L E i believe, but IANAL (... not a linguist) so if im wrong.. don't come running to my pm box! I use a plethora ( )of words that make my peers do the head scratch thing normally but at the moment i seem to be at a loss. Hmm.. juxtapose is a fun word =) (to place side by side for comparison... usually two things you wouldn't compare directly)

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Venus: And there are troops of savage giraffes whose necks are on fire, like the starry ejaculations of fireworks in the very pale sky of childhood ... Venus: Enter, enter here - men of all kinds and races, victims of reality! You who have the thirst for dreams. ... Venus: You, on life's bitter road, drenched in hard sunlight who have the thirst that once more the dark marvel of dreams...

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Originally posted by S-a-M-u-E-l puerile? hah...if its that complicated, lets put a method of how to pronounce it.

http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=puerile



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Last edited by Orbax on Aug-22-2003 at 04:28

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Originally posted by Orbax www.dictionary.com and sign up for the word of the day

That reminds me of something...back when he was playing for the Miami Heat, John Salley used to do a bit on one of the Miami TV stations called "John Salley's Word of the Day".
He would find some obscure word, give the definition, and use it in a funny sentence.

They showed it once on a channel I was watching and I remember clearly that the word of the day was:

Prognosticate - to predict

I don't remember the sentence though.

Yes I need a life....lol

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Originally posted by S-a-M-u-E-l puerile? hah...if its that complicated, lets put a method of how to pronounce it.

i got a better one: infantile


arturo should subscribe to this thread




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expand your vocabulary, dear
<@arturob> wtf???

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orbax, edit your thread to one supercool definition! u took the fun out of learning!!!

One last word while I finish waiting for my download to finish so I can go to bed.

Up until they started putting medical and computer terminology in the dictionary a decade or so ago...this was the official longest word in the English language:

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Click the word for the meaning.

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thats only 80 i have over 1000 :P

one i like to call people

troglodyte : A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish. literally means cave-dweller hehe