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Post by karenee on Sept 23, 2006 10:41:23 GMT -5
rhabdomancy: When rhubarb rules the world!!!
Actually: rhab‧do‧man‧cy /ˈræbdəˌmænsi/ [rab-duh-man-see]
–noun
divination by means of a rod or wand, esp. in discovering ores, springs of water, etc
(Now why didn't I know that?)
New word: lacuna
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Post by dreamer on Sept 25, 2006 8:09:08 GMT -5
lacuna: having to do with words and their meanings.
. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
2. Anatomy. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells.
3. Botany. an air space in the cellular tissue of plants.
Oh, well, I'd read it in a sentence as 'minor lacunae'. Now I know!!
New word: sprachgefuhl
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Post by karenee on Sept 25, 2006 11:53:07 GMT -5
sprachgefuhl: when you're too full, but someone insists on offering you dessert. (Is this really English???)
Actually: n : an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language; "Dubyuh has no sprachgefuhl"
New word: disembogue
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Post by dreamer on Sept 26, 2006 14:38:52 GMT -5
(Oh, I can think of LOTS of answers for that one!!) We'll go with the least disgusting. disembogue: having to do with blowing one's nose. 1. to discharge contents by pouring forth. 2. to discharge water, as at the mouth of a stream: a river that disembogues into the ocean. –verb (used with object) 3. to discharge; cast forth. So, I was close!!  New word: taboret |
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Post by karenee on Sept 26, 2006 14:53:37 GMT -5
taboret: A type of dance
Actually: –noun
1. a low seat without back or arms, for one person; stool.
2. a frame for embroidery.
3. a small, usually portable stand, cabinet, or chest of drawers, as for holding work supplies.
4. a small tabor.
New word: drupe
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Post by dreamer on Sept 26, 2006 21:26:03 GMT -5
drupe: What things start to do as you get older! any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed. New word: ulema |
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Post by karenee on Sept 27, 2006 9:14:08 GMT -5
Ulema: pursuing a lemur devotedly (as scientists tend to do)
Actually: –plural noun Islam.
the doctors of Muslim religion and law.
(close? well, the devoted part, anyway)
New Word: cleome
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Post by dreamer on Sept 27, 2006 11:55:01 GMT -5
A cleome is a annual flower with a long stalk and spiky flowers at the top. (There are some in our community's garden, and I used to work at a garden and flower shop!!)
any of numerous strong-smelling plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Cleome, of the caper family, mostly natives of tropical regions, and often bearing showy flowers.
New word: velarize
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Post by karenee on Sept 28, 2006 11:54:14 GMT -5
velarize: placing velcro upon unsuspecting people, then laughing at them
Actually: To articulate (a sound) by retracting the back of the tongue toward the soft palate.
(Oooh, Quechua velarizes a lot, then. Interesting.)
New word: recondite
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Post by dancer on Sept 28, 2006 12:22:34 GMT -5
recondite - the act of being reconditioned (okay, I know that's boring)
Real Meaning:[adj] difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
New word: MELLUCO
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Post by dreamer on Sept 28, 2006 19:26:56 GMT -5
Melluco: A new kind of dance popular in the South Pacific.
\Mel*lu"co\, n. (Bot.) A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.
New word: wickiup
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Post by Tegid on Sept 29, 2006 5:56:46 GMT -5
"Wickiup!" -- What one says to a rataan horse to get it to go faster.
wick-i-up [wik-ee-uhp] -- A frame hut covered with matting, as of bark or brush, used by nomadic Native Americans of North America.
Next word: syzygy
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Post by karenee on Sept 29, 2006 10:19:52 GMT -5
syzygy: A complex mathematical formula, using many letters.
Actually: –noun, plural -gies.
1. Astronomy. an alignment of three celestial objects, as the sun, the earth, and either the moon or a planet: Syzygy in the sun-earth-moon system occurs at the time of full moon and new moon.
2. Classical Prosody. a group or combination of two feet, sometimes restricted to a combination of two feet of different kinds.
3. any two related things, either alike or opposite.
New word: sedge
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Post by dreamer on Sept 30, 2006 8:40:40 GMT -5
Sedge: a hedge in a swamp
1. any rushlike or grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places. Compare sedge family.
2. any plant of the sedge family.
New word: xanthochroid
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Post by karenee on Oct 3, 2006 12:36:37 GMT -5
xanthochroid: a robotic bug
Actually:
adj. - Having a light complexion and light hair.
n. - A person having a light complexion and light hair.
(Ugh. I'm starting that study of word origins I've been putting off.)
New word: jurat
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