Categories: just-life
Date: 12 January 2006 15:05:17
Today is brought to you by The Grandiloquent Dictionary and some words that you might never of heard of otherwise........
agelast - a preson who never laughs,
blatteroon - a person who will not stop talking,
capernoited - slightly intoxicated or tipsy,
deipnophobia - a fear of dinner conversation,
exsibilation - the collective hisses of a disaproving audience,
funambulist - a tightrope walker,
garalesthesia - the sensation caused by tickling,
hebephobia - the fear of young people,
ignipotent - having control of or power over fire,
jowfair - an event which does not occur after much planning, such as a wedding with no groom,
kamalayka - a shirt made of seal guts,
lethologica - the inability to recall a precise word for something,
maritorious - excessively devoted to one's husband,
nostomania - overwhelming homesickness,
obnubilate - to be clouded and obscure,
paralian - a person who lives near the sea,
quiddler - a person who hangs around wasting time at work and making conversation with people who are working,
recumbentibus - a knockout punch, either verbal or physical,
sardanapalian - being luxuriously effeminate like the Byron hero Sardanapalus,
theriolater - a person who worships animals,
urticate - to beat with a whip,
veriloquent - speaking nothing but the truth,
wittol - a man who meakly accepts his wife's adultery,
xenodochiophobia - a fear of foreign hotels,
yataghan - a long knife, common in Turkey, which has a double curved blade,
zoonosis - any disease that can be passed from animals to humans.
Your challenge...... to use one of these words sometime today....... go for it!!!!