goblinbox

Being a running list:

• exiguious
• manque
• approbation
• ratiocenation

Being a running list:

• eponymous
• dysesthesia
• lecanomancy

In which I share what I’ve used Google’s define¹ function in the past seven days to better understand.

• lemniscate
• antipathy
• sidereal
• basque
• DS3
• SSP

I often look up words I’m familiar with just to make sure I really do know what they mean. Because sometimes? It turns out that I actually don’t.

Well, that’s not exactly true; I have extremely subtle inference skills, yo, and can grok most unfamiliar words easily by context. (I read at a high school level in grade school, and had a post-collegiate reading level in junior high, you dig). But sometimes it turns out that I don’t entirely know a word’s full meaning or etymology, and like anyone can always benefit from deeper research. Read the rest of this entry »

In which there’s an example but no rules, really.

Okay, so last night Truck said Carne Estrada to me. I laughed my arse off.

Today, I said Angelina Joie de vivre to him. Which didn’t really impress him, but amused the hell out of me. (Morning isn’t my sharpest time of day.)

So it’s the household’s new word game, and will probably last all the way through Sunday. There’s really no structure, other than mixing a celebrity name with something else.

Your turn! (I depend on you, Internet, to be funnier than whatever it is in Truck’s pants that he won’t shut up about.)

In which I show you what my reading has taught me.

1. catenary
2. Planck’s constant
3. belletrist
4. plethysmograph
5. haptics

Being a running list, 25-31:

• coprophagous
• half-life
• cynosure

Being a running list, Dec. 4-10, 2005:

• frottage
• turducken
• turgid

Yes, I have been reading smut as a matter of fact!

Being a running list, 18-24:

turbot
anomic
diktat
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A running list, 14-20:

proprioceptive
kvelling
apposite
ullage
naff

A running list, 7-13:

schadenfreude
pederastic
dyspnea
somatization
cladistic
protista
mishugana
arced