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By ye olde order of the Snapping Dragon de Pen Kingdom, there shall hence be a new order, a challenge of lances and swords and weapons of great valour. *peasants yawn* All ye, I bore ye, but not so anymore!
I humbly give the Kingdom’s thanks to @sierra-r , who introduced us to ye olde test of knowledge in our lexicon. It gaveth me-eth the idea to have a vocabulary challenge of knowledge. Thus shall it be by order of these lands. The contestants can be anyone, the reward is ice cream, provided by either myself or sir @daeus !
*cough* Ugh. Enough of that. So, in normal English, what I’m trying to say is this. Anyone of us who comes across a word that seems challenging or new or doesn’t know it can post it here, then all of us can learn it. (either way, I’m trying to expand my vocab.)
So, what say you Writers of the Square Table?
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Sure. As long as I can remember to post. 😉
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@daeus *bribe* 🍦🍦 😀
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@Dragon-Snapper Gosh, how long did it take you to type all that?
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@dragon-snapper Methinks it doth sound like a great challenge! So when thou posteths ye newe word, thou must also posteth ye definition thereof?
Currently reading Les Miserables
@dragon-snapper I accept the challenge! My vocabulary is in dire need of polishing. 😛
Here’s one. It might be helpful to all you people who have battles in your stories.
Internecine: Mutually destructive to both sides in a conflict.
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@ethryndal Ooh, that’s a good one. Here are a few that I missed on the vocab test. (trust me, there are more 😛 )
Parsimonious: Excessively cheap with money; stingy
Svelte: Slender and graceful
Embonpoint: Plump
Funambulist: Tightrope walker
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This is cool! 😀 .. @dragon-snapper – Funambulist… haha! 😂 I think I missed all those too… (and lots more 😝)
Here’s a fun one that I missed: terpsichorean. Of or relating to dancing 😀
And on a rather unrelated note, can anyone guess when this quote on vocabulary was written? No cheating! 🙂
“The vocabularies of the majority of high-school pupils are amazingly small. I always try to use simple English, and yet I have talked to classes when quite a minority of the pupils did not comprehend more than half of what I said.”
@sierra I have no idea, but that reminds me of something; I found an online app that you can paste your writing into and it’ll show you words that are passive voice, rather than active, complicated words that have simpler ones of the same meaning, and sentences that are hard and difficult to read (so, two levels) So I did that, and was shocked to see some of the sentences that it said were hard to read (because they were not) and that it said words like “demonstrate” and “witnessed” were complicated (and they are not)
Currently reading Les Miserables
@sierra-r I can’t…when and who was it from?
Terpischorean… I’m going to have to use that some day. 😀
Here are some more.
Legerdemain: trickery
Imbroglio: a complicated situation (or, for less formal matters, brouhaha 😛 I love that word)
Pastiche: a work that imitates or is made of pieces of other works
And I found this one very interesting- Estivation: A period of inactivity and lowered body temperature that some animals undergo in summer as a protection from the hot weather and lack of food
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Ah, and strange vocabulary connection I just made for school.
The word Supercilious pretty much means arrogant. The root for it is Supercilium which means ‘eyebrow’. I guess even back when this root was made, arrogant people still raised their eyebrows. 😛☀ ☀ ☀ ENFP ☀ ☀ ☀
@dragon-snapper @perfectfifths The quote’s from M.W. Smith in 1889 😀 Even back then people were complaining about vocabulary reduction!
@Sierra-R And this is why most people don’t understand Shakespeare. 🙂
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