LOST AND INTERESTING WORDS
G'day folks,
Let's see how smart you are, or how good your memory is. Here are some words I have never heard of.
Acrasial:
Short tempered or ill tempered.
Adimpleate: To fill up; to make something full.
Aeipathy: Continued love or passion for something or someone.
Bajulate: To take the burden of; bear the burden.
Boscaresque: A scenic woodland; picturesque.
Buccellation: The art of making small morsels.
Coakatively: Artificially.
Ecstasiate: To enter an ecstatic level.
Adimpleate: To fill up; to make something full.
Aeipathy: Continued love or passion for something or someone.
Bajulate: To take the burden of; bear the burden.
Boscaresque: A scenic woodland; picturesque.
Buccellation: The art of making small morsels.
Coakatively: Artificially.
Ecstasiate: To enter an ecstatic level.
Exipotic: A purgatorial process.
Fallaciloquence: A pretentious speech.
Foppotee: A simpleton.
Gnathonize: To flatter someone.
Graviloquence: A sad or grave speech.
Homerkin: An outdated measure for beer.
Ictuate: To put stress on; to emphasize.
Jobler: Someone who does petty jobs.
Kexy: Dry and brittle.
Lignicide: An ancient word for woodcutter.
Misqueme: To offend or displease.
Nepheliad: A sky nymph.
Obstrigillate: To resist; refuse; protest.
Phalerate: Decorated; made beautiful.
Quadrimular: A phenomenon lasting for four years.
Rhodologist: A person who studies and classifies roses.
Sacricolist: A devoted worshiper.
Tecnolatry: Act of idolizing children.
Vacivity: Hollow or emptiness.
And then …
ablegate: papal envoy or legate
ablepsia: blindness
abliguration:extravagance in cooking and serving
abligurition:lavish spending on food and drink
ablow: in a blowing state
abluent:
cleanser or cleansing product
ablutomania:
an insatiable mania for washing oneself
ablutophobia:
the fear of bathing
abnegate:
to renounce or repudiate
abnormous:
misshapen
abodement:
an omen; a foretelling
aboideau:
tide gate
abolla:
Roman military cloak
abomasum:
the fourth of the four stomachs of a ruminant
abord: to
accost; to approach
aborning:
during birth; while being born
aborticide:
killing of a fetus; abortion
abortuary:
anti-abortion term for an abortion clinic
aboulia: loss of ability to make decisions
aboulomania:
pathological indecisiveness
aboutsledge:
largest blacksmith's hammer
abra:
narrow mountain pass
abradant:
a substance that abrades
abraid:
to awaken or rouse
Clancy's comment: So, how did you go? Know any at all? Mm ... yeah, right!
Think about this!
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