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Word of the day besides "murmur".

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16 February 2007, 06:55 AM
Braling II
Word of the day besides "murmur".
Rounders?
16 February 2007, 08:48 PM
rocket
grok

To understand profoundly and intuitively.

(I'm adding a secondary word, it's okay because it is in parenthesis, it is:rapscallion, and I used it today and meant it!)


She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist...

rocketsummer@insightbb.com
16 February 2007, 10:43 PM
Chapter 31
GROK is a very excellent word.
18 February 2007, 08:05 AM
rocket
scintilla


She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist...

rocketsummer@insightbb.com
20 February 2007, 07:43 AM
Braling II
splenetic
20 February 2007, 07:18 PM
rocket
verbiage


She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist...

rocketsummer@insightbb.com
21 February 2007, 06:51 AM
Braling II
rodomontade
21 February 2007, 02:13 PM
rocket
juxtapose


She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist...

rocketsummer@insightbb.com
21 February 2007, 02:25 PM
Braling II
vespertilian!

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/classify/animalia/chordat...tera/chiroptera.html
22 February 2007, 06:40 AM
Braling II
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis!
22 February 2007, 10:53 AM
philnic
Floccinaucinahilipilification!


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22 February 2007, 10:59 AM
Braling II
Good one, Phil!
I had to look that one up!
I found Floccinaucinihilipilification (different by one vowel).
23 February 2007, 01:04 AM
philnic
That's what I meant! I'm glad you didn't floccinaucinihilipilificate my post.


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23 February 2007, 06:57 AM
Braling II
Phil, I would never do such a thing! I consider all your posts anything but nugatory!
23 February 2007, 08:15 AM
biplane1
What aout being rapacious?