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Old 09-03-2019, 06:07 PM   #1
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That's right. We're doing this. Post yer good words. All languages are welcome but please post definitions in English

 
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Old 09-03-2019, 06:10 PM   #2
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Here's two to get us started:

Lassitude: a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.

Doggerel: comic verse composed in irregular rhythm.
verse or words that are badly written or expressed.

 
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Old 09-03-2019, 07:47 PM   #3
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Taphonomy: 1. processes of fossilization 2. the study thereof

 
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Old 09-04-2019, 09:00 AM   #4
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Eolian: borne, deposited, produced, or eroded by the wind

 
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Old 09-04-2019, 10:58 AM   #5
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Constellation: 3. a group or configuration of ideas, feelings, characteristics, objects, etc., that are related in some way: e.g., a constellation of qualities that made her particularly suited to the job.

 
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Old 09-04-2019, 11:41 AM   #6
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sesquipedalian: when applying it to words, it means polysyllabic or long

But I prefer when it's used to describe a person: someone who uses overly long-winded or big words

In order to use it, you have to be it

 
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Old 09-04-2019, 12:13 PM   #7
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is that a subtle critique of the contributors to the word of the day thread?

 
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Old 09-04-2019, 12:17 PM   #8
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Fluvial

1: of, relating to, or living in a stream or river
2: produced by the action of a stream

 
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Old 09-04-2019, 12:26 PM   #9
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sesquipedalian: ... In order to use it, you have to be it
This is great

 
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Old 09-04-2019, 12:27 PM   #10
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And reminds me of one I very much like the sound of:

Uniparous: producing a single young at a birth.

 
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Old 09-04-2019, 12:34 PM   #11
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I really like the weird poetry of some French terms:

Papillon de nuit - a moth, literally a butterfly of the night
Pomme de terre - potato, literally apple of the earth

And some are just fun to say despite their decidedly unpoetic nature such as

Parapluie: an umbrella

 
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Old 09-04-2019, 09:29 PM   #12
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derailleur: [from French] a mechanism for shifting gears on a bicycle that operates by moving the chain from one set of exposed gears to another

may also be referred to as Derai'

 
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autodefenestration: (rare, nonce word) The act of hurling oneself from a window.


that's how i'm gonna go

 
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Old 09-05-2019, 03:37 AM   #14
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floccinaucinihilipilification

the action or habit of estimating something as worthless

 
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Old 09-05-2019, 04:09 PM   #15
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coprolite: fossilized excrement

 
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sublimate: verb (used with object), sub·li·mat·ed, sub·li·mat·ing.
1. Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
2. Chemistry.
to sublime (a solid substance); extract by this process.
to refine or purify (a substance).
3. to make nobler or purer

i like all of the definitions

 
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Old 09-06-2019, 09:39 AM   #17
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Homology: a similarity often attributable to common origin

Phylogeny: 1. the evolutionary history of a kind of organism 2. the history or course of the development of something (such as a word or custom)

 
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tautology: needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word

 
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Old 09-06-2019, 12:06 PM   #19
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floccinaucinihilipilification

the action or habit of estimating something as worthless
Floccilation, more commonly known as carphology or carphologia - the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium

 
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Phylogeny: 1. the evolutionary history of a kind of organism 2. the history or course of the development of something (such as a word or custom)
i came to this thread to post this right now, wtf. We picked the same word bro

Here's a good sister word

ontogeny: the development or course of development especially of an individual organism

 
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Old 09-07-2019, 04:01 PM   #21
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Hendiadys - the expression of a single idea by two words connected with “and,” e.g., nice and warm, when one could be used to modify the other, as in nicely warm.

 
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wow

so this is how it's going to be huh

 
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Old 09-07-2019, 08:03 PM   #23
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abiogenesis: the origin of life from nonliving matter

 
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Phylogeny: 1. the evolutionary history of a kind of organism 2. the history or course of the development of something (such as a word or custom)
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i came to this thread to post this right now, wtf. We picked the same word bro

Here's a good sister word

ontogeny: the development or course of development especially of an individual organism
I read this all as orgasm, and yes it made perfect sense.

 
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i was about to berate you but then i noticed that the sun had set on the Lord's Hallowed Day. so it's fine, go ahead and wallow in your filth.

 
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Speciation: the process of biological species formation

 
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i was about to berate you
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Old 09-07-2019, 10:41 PM   #28
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"And you, be ye fruitful, and have hella orgasms; orgasm abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein."

 
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Old 09-07-2019, 10:42 PM   #29
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That's Genesis 9:7

 
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eurhythmic - harmonious, with an aesthetically pleasing rhythm of structure

fugacious - fleeting, having a tendency to disappear

elysian - heavenly, paradisaical

 
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