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As the list gets longer, it'll be useful to see what words have already been posted (if you'd rather not duplicate). It may be interesting to see what kinds of words have been used, too.
To that end, I've started this alphabetical list. When you post a new word to the thread, please also add it here.
Alpenglow
amativeness
apropos
autodidact
bivouac
buckminsterfullerene-esque
chthonic
denouement
enigmatic
evanescent
ginormous
harf
hemidemisemiquaver
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
iconoclast
inception
metrosexual
molybdenum
oxymoron
paradigm
paradox
penultimate
peregrinating
petulant
quaff
quibble
Quibbles and Bits
recumbent
refudiate
troll
If the list gets too cumbersome, somebody can divide it up.
Anna Mae
Wiki summmary last edited by reststep on Wed May 09, 2012 6:54 am (this post can be edited by any member)
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Josh Journey a.k.a Josh Lewis
Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 4837 | TRs | Pics
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Time for a new thread idea, at times its always fun to see new words each day so I figured it would be fun to have a thread dedicated for posting a word with the definition. I'll start:
Paradox: a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
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kite Member
Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 1419 | TRs | Pics Location: Olympia |
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kite
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Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:10 pm
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Hemidemisemiquaver;
Music a note having the time value of one sixty-fourth of a semibreve Usual US and Canadian name sixty-fourth note
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Chief Joseph Member
Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 7745 | TRs | Pics Location: Verlot-Priest Lake |
Recumbent: The position that most NWhikers appear to be in at this time.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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Magellan Brutally Handsome
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 13116 | TRs | Pics Location: Inexorable descent |
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Magellan
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Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:10 pm
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Do I have to spell the word correctly?
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Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3104 | TRs | Pics
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I like Sarah Palin's recent addition to the English vocabulary: refudiate. In an interview she called upon both Barack and Michelle Obama to refudiate the position that the Tea Party is racist. It sounds like she meant repudiate. I will cut her some slack as the thin air while on her glacier stroll probably caused some HACE to occur.
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Bushwacker Comfortable
Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 834 | TRs | Pics Location: Chaweng Beach, Koh Samui, Thailand |
BIVOUAC: A French word generally said to have been introduced during the Thirty Years' War. Originally meaning a night-watch by a whole army under arms to prevent surprise. In modern parlance the word is used to mean a temporary encampment in the open without tents. Also used in the French language to mean "mistake".
"Wait by the river long enough and the bodies of your enemies will float by"...Sun Tsu
"Wait by the river long enough and the bodies of your enemies will float by"...Sun Tsu
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Quark Niece of Alvy Moore
Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 14152 | TRs | Pics
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Quark
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Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:23 pm
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Buckminsterfullerene-esque - acts like, or shaped like, a buckminsterfullerene molecule.
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
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seawallrunner dilettante
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 3310 | TRs | Pics Location: Lotusland |
Chthonic - pertaining to the spirits of the underworld. possible consequence - bivouac, unless someone refudiates me.
ps: kite, do you like Robert Fripp?
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grannyhiker Member
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 3519 | TRs | Pics Location: Gateway to the Columbia Gorge |
Oxymoron, plural oxymora: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
Origin:
1650–60; < LL oxymorum < presumed Gk *oxýmōron, neut. of *oxýmōros sharp-dull, equiv. to oxý ( s ) sharp ( see oxy-1 ) + mōrós dull ( see moron)
It's fun to read the definitions from different dictionaries on Dictionary.com. The above was from Random House. From the World English Dictionary: "rhetoric an epigrammatic effect, by which contradictory terms are used in conjunction: living death ; fiend angelical." From the American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: 'A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect: “She is just a poor little rich girl.”'
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.--E.Abbey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.--E.Abbey
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Josh Journey a.k.a Josh Lewis
Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 4837 | TRs | Pics
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Magellan wrote: | Do I have to spell the word correctly? |
Well you don't have to, but it would be nice.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16105 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Everybody knows what the word is
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Josh Journey a.k.a Josh Lewis
Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 4837 | TRs | Pics
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Inception: beginning; start; commencement
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grannyhiker Member
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 3519 | TRs | Pics Location: Gateway to the Columbia Gorge |
To go with yours, Flow: denouement
de·noue·ment [dey-noo-mahn]
–noun
1. the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel.
2. the place in the plot at which this occurs.
3. the outcome or resolution of a doubtful series of occurrences.
Origin:
1745–55; < F: lit., an untying, equiv. to dénouer to untie, OF desnoer (des- de- + noer to knot < L nōdāre, deriv. of nōdus knot) + -ment -ment
—Synonyms
3. solution, conclusion, end, upshot
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.--E.Abbey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.--E.Abbey
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jenjen Moderatrix
Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 7617 | TRs | Pics Location: Sierra stylin |
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jenjen
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Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:51 pm
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penultimate
adjective
1. next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play.
If life gives you melons - you might be dyslexic
If life gives you melons - you might be dyslexic
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sarbar Living The Dream
Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Posts: 8055 | TRs | Pics Location: Freeland, Wa |
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sarbar
Living The Dream
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Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:12 pm
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Malachai Constant wrote: | Everybody knows what the word is
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OMG, that episode still causes me to want to poke my eyes. The husband went and bought that song to just annoy me in the car when I cannot escape
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