Read any book... when you come to a word unknown to you, tell me what it was and what it means?

29 Jan 2011

Quote by gypsymoth
Quote by HoneyBee000
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Sobriquet - it's a variant of nickname apparently. One of 3 I couldn't figure out in the Sydney Morning Herald crossword today.

How do I pronounce it? I have trouble with new words when I come across them, sometimes I can't figure out how to say the word and if I can't say it I'm less likly to use it!

I suggest you try it like this: so brie kay -- but run it all together, sobriekay. At least that is how it's pronounced in French. Dictionary.com gives this pronunciation guide to it, which is close to my attempt at explaining it: soh-bruh-key

Ok HB, now just lean down close to the screen, because I'm whispering it to you, so you can actually hear it.

Sobriquet.

There. Didn't that sound lovely? ;-)

hahahahaha nice one Gypsy hee hee Brilliant! laughing6

29 Jan 2011

twitterpated ~ to be smitten or lovesick over something or someone.

29 Jan 2011

twitterpated ~ to be smitten or lovesick over something or someone.

30 Jan 2011

Oh, the only other one I couldn't get out in the crossword, "Perfidious".

–adjective
deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.

30 Jan 2011

I love perfidious and perfidy. A great perfidy was visited on us all when Michele Bachmann was elected to office in the US...

Oops, but that's not the assignment, is it? Bad dog, Daniel. No bone! My memory is so horrible that I don't remember the last word I didn't know. DORK. (I mean that's what I am. Sadly, I know WELL what it means).
Fugly

1 Feb 2011

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Impossibilist

Someone who believes that all things are impossible, they own a defeatist attitude.

I pretty much figured that out on my own, but I'd never seen the word used before the other day.

The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.

16 Feb 2011

Contumacious : – adjective
stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.

—Synonyms: contrary, pigheaded, factious, refractory, headstrong, intractable.

Her parents grounded her for the rest of her life because of her contumacious refusal to put the cap back on the toothpaste tube, even though they had asked her to do so at least ten million times.

16 Feb 2011

I write it down and then I look the defination up.