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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Oct 4th at 2:50pm 2006

20. Sycophant



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Posted by Junkyard God on Thu Oct 5th at 12:36pm 2006

Love the word 'rephrobate' for some reason <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">, can't explain what it means in english though hehe.

But it means something like 'severely inhumane' or something like that, my band is called that ^^.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Oct 5th at 1:30pm 2006

21. Reprobate?



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Posted by Juim on Thu Oct 5th at 4:20pm 2006

In the scientific and medical communities, the technical name for using one's finger to extract boogers is rhinotillexis, and doing so compulsively is termed rhinotillexomania. The act of eating the resulting harvest is called mucophagy.



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Posted by Bewbies on Mon Oct 9th at 5:13pm 2006

thank juim, i got myself some new WoW character names now. =D


the players tried to take the field
the marching band refused to yield



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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Mon Oct 9th at 6:45pm 2006

I approve this thread.

Seriously this is great stuff, keep 'em coming. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Mon Oct 9th at 8:50pm 2006

Ok, for you Scythe.

Here's the m-w.com word of the day. Pretty worthless one if you ask me, but hey...

25. antipode



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Posted by Cassius on Tue Oct 10th at 5:02am 2006

And now, gentlemen, for the most obscure words in the lexicon:

Opisthenar;

Sastrugi, the only English word I know of rooted in Russian;

?lan, the only word that comes to mind to feature an accented vowel;

Acedia;

Glossolalia;

and others.





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Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Oct 10th at 3:13pm 2006

Cassius, I knew a few of those words.

Another word rooted in Russian is "Robot" it comes from the word "Rabotat'" работать which means "to work"

More obscure treasures:

  1. Girt - It means to have a belt on.
  2. co?perate is also a proper spelling. One of the only words with a Diaeresis.
  3. Diaeresis
  4. lathi
  5. ar?te
  6. h?ček

I love language.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Oct 10th at 4:23pm 2006

Link those definitions for us lazyfolk!



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Posted by Naklajat on Sun Oct 15th at 6:09am 2006

31(-ish). Resource
32(maybe). Recourse

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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sat Oct 21st at 1:22am 2006

Vocab from Julian Barnes' "England, England."

39. Trope
40. Egregious
41. Porphyry
42. Fairisle
43. Tussocky
44. Peroration
45. Scrimshaw
46. Junta

Enjoy.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Oct 24th at 2:26am 2006

47. Felicitous



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Oct 31st at 4:12am 2006

48. Soporific



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Posted by wil5on on Tue Oct 31st at 9:31am 2006

Interrobang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Nov 2nd at 4:59am 2006

I just got done reading an interesting article on American television culture after 9/11 called "Entertainment Wars" written by Lynn Spigel.

Quite a few new words:

50. Jingoism
51. Paucity
52. Reify
53. Pedagogy
54. Pabulum




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