Word of the day

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

For example, one could be parsimonious with words, or parsimonious with money.

The word is an adjective rather than a noun (the simplest theory" would be a thing, so the word for it would be a noun)

- you're not even sharing anything new. just trying to impress yourself -

I'm unsure as to what your concern is. Can you clarify the point you are attempting to make?

[myosis]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

harrumph: (1) to clear the throat in a pompous way, (2) to comment disapprovingly.

this is incredibly smurfy:
She harrumphed on my constant harrumphing.

[Alice]

Viaticum - the Eucharist as given to a person near or in danger of death.

2.
ARCHAIC
a supply of provisions or an official allowance of money for a journey.

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by Disco King

I'm unsure as to what your concern is. Can you clarify the point you are attempting to make?

[FoolofaTook]

denizen: (1) inhabitant, (2) a person admitted to residence or citizenship in a foreign country, (3) one that frequents a place

[FoolofaTook]

truck garden - a farm where vegetables are grown for market

[Alice]

"Malidoma told me there is a word in his village: yielbongura. It means 'the things that knowledge cannot eat.'" - from Dagaare, the language of the Dagaaba, an "ethnic group located north of the convergence of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire."

[Alice]

I like this a lot

[FoolofaTook]

elision:

1. a: the use of a speech form that lacks a final or initial sound which a variant speech
form has (such as 's instead of is in there's)
b: the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable in a verse to achieve a uniform
metrical pattern

2. the act or an instance of omitting something

[FoolofaTook]

catchment

1: something that catches water
also : the amount of water caught
2: the action of catching water

[FoolofaTook]

hardscrabble:

1a: being or relating to a place of barren or barely arable soil
a hardscrabble farm
hardscrabble prairies
b: getting a meager living from poor soil
a hardscrabble farmer
2: marked by poverty
a hardscrabble cotton town
a hardscrabble childhood

[vixnix]

tranche

a division or portion of a pool or whole
specifically : an issue of bonds derived from a pooling of like obligations (such as securitized mortgage debt) that is differentiated from other issues especially by maturity or rate of return

[Alice]

Peripatetic - traveling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods.

[FoolofaTook]

insouciance

lighthearted unconcern : NONCHALANCE

[Shallowed]

pish - an imitated bird call (usually a scold or alarm call) used by birders and ornithologists to attract birds, generally passerines.

[Alice]

Passerine - any bird of the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having feet adapted for perching.

[FoolofaTook]

Bimaristan is a Persian word meaning "hospital", with Bimar- from Middle Persian of vīmār or vemār, meaning "sick" plus -stan as location and place suffix. In the medieval Islamic world, the word "Bimaristan" was used to indicate a hospital where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff.

[topleybird]

Taiga: a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. In North America it's often referred to as the boreal forest or snow forest.

[FoolofaTook]

Taiga: Here the Slavs have always ruled!

North America: Here the Slavs will someday rule!


LONG LIVE THE GSGE!!! (Greater Slavic Galactic Empire!!!)

[Alice]

Unisonance - a blending of sounds

[topleybird]

Abnegate: to renounce, relinquish, give up or abandon something, often used about rights or responsibilities

I learned this one by reading Faulkner, which is a pretty good way to learn some cool and unusual words

[FoolofaTook]

THATS COOL

MAYBE NEXT HE"LL LEARN YOU TO USE TERMINAL PUNCTUATION











FUCK

[topleybird]

Honestly, my man Willie F was not the dude to rely on for strict adherence to the niceties of English

[FoolofaTook]

WELL I GUESS THAT ASPLAINS IT

[topleybird]

The post so nice the server made me do it twice!

[FoolofaTook]

BY THE WAY ALL THE WORDS YOU GUYS POST I ALREADY KNEW

NOW ITS TRUE I FORGOT ALL THE DEFINITIONS BUT STILL I USED TO KNOWN THEM BEFORE YOU SO THAT MAKES ME BETTER

[Alice]

As I Lie Dying

[FoolofaTook]

picaresque
: of or relating to rogues or rascals
also : of, relating to, suggesting, or being a type of fiction dealing with the episodic adventures of a usually roguish protagonist

[FoolofaTook]

Sahel

The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. Having a semi-arid climate, it stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.

[FoolofaTook]

iconoclast
1: a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
2: a person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration