I thought I would make a little game to pass the time. I love learning new words and sometimes hear words that I've never heard before. This could be fun! Here's what to do:

Define the word posted by the person before you and add a new word.

I guess you can use a dictionary or don't use one. Of course there won't be a way of telling if you use one or not! :)

I'll start:

effulgence...

Effulgence means to shine brightly. It is sometimes used in sentences like; His effulgent praise made me feel happy but somewhat embarrassed.

Fulsome

Fulsome

Excessively flattering. It can also simply mean "abundant".


Next word: Ecdysiast

I had to hit the dictionary .. that's a word I've never encountered.

Ecdysiast: a striptease artist.

Next: anacrusis

I also had to use a dictionary for this one. I couldn't find it in the Webster's New Explorer Dictionary but I did have success on dictionary.com.

anacrusis is "one or more unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line of verse, before the reckoning of the normal meter begins"

sine qua non

sine qua non - essential to or neccessary for

copacetic

Satisfactory

Etymology

The history of a word or linguistic form.

Sui generis

Unique

Saturnine

ponderous and gloomy. Someone who is plodding and slow to act and usually a bit of a gloomy Gus.


Vulpine

foxlike, cunning , sly

Peripatetic

Nomadic

Nonplus

Bewilder, perplex...

Usufruction

Usufruct is the legal right to use or take that which someone else produced. Sort of like welfare or the dole.

The Democrats should be known as the Usufruct Party.


Fungible

Exchangeable

Pusillanimous

timid
defenestrate

To throw out of a window.

echolalia

Echoing what other people say.

glossilalia

Did you perhaps mean :glossilalia?

If so, it is speaking in tongues.

xenophobe

That's what I wrote.

Xenophobe = someone who hates foreignors.

Lycanthrope

a werewolf

jackanapes

someone who is acts or behaves like an ape.

ABSQUATULATE

To leave, especially in a hurry.

bloviate

A blowhard politician

Bactrian

A two humped camel.

absquatulate

A two humped camel.

absquatulate

Didn't we just have that word? (leaving in a hurry)

Inculcate

Indoctrination

Equinoctial

Yeah, geeze frogger. Taking other ppl's words. geesh. lol jk

happening at or near either of the two equinoxes or describes a plant whose flowers opens and closes at specific times of day.

BLATHERSKITE

A person given to talking nonsense.

pseudepigrapha

Another phony bible

Trocar

Trocar: A shaft with a three sides point.

moratory

Authorizing delay in payment

Quahaug

A hard shelled clam found along the east coast of North America

farinaceous

Rich in starch

Croustade

A molded or hollowed bowllike crust, as of pastry, rice, or bread, used as a serving container for another food.

INTERROBANG

A punctuation mark in the form of a question mark over an exclamation point.

mountebank

It is a sharp-pointed surgical instrument fitted with a cannula and used especially to insert the cannula into a body cavity as a drainage outlet.




deflagrate

deflagrate- to burn

marmoreal

marble-like


spitfire

I disagree with the definition of mountebank.

A mountebank is a charlatan, ie. a snake oil salesman, someone who sells things through trickery.

A spitfire is both the name of a fighter plane and a term for a person, usually a woman who is a real bundle of vim and vinegar.

lachramose.

lachramose? or do you mean
lachrymose

if so...tears, crying, weeping...

ubiquitous

Existing or being everywhere, at the same time

Sesquipedalian

Sesquipedalian
The literal Latin sesquipedalis would be what most men think they are...;)
otherwise: given to or characterized by the use of long words... I had never seen this word before.

Here's a neat one: weltschmerz

Sentimental pessimism

Paralanguage