Definition Destruction

[Bren]

to seduce a tray?? Actually I already know the word, so I had to attempt humor. To malign, slander.

tutelary

[karenee]

Of use in teaching.

Actually:
1. having the position of guardian or protector of a person, place, or thing: tutelary saint.
2. of or pertaining to a guardian or guardianship.
–noun
3. a person who has tutelary powers, as a saint, deity, or guardian.

(If I have EVER said to any of you that I have a huge vocabulary, feel free to laugh up your sleeve. I am now suitably humbled.)

New word: qhee

[Bren]

Hmm...sounds like a filler syllable in a song. sha la la qhee qhee

Expenses such as tuition and tuition related expenses that an individual, spouse, or child must pay to an eligible post-secondary institution.


slugabed

[dreamer]

Me!! Sleeping in until 8:30 this morning!! I was a definite slugabed.


a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.

See!! I told you so!!

New word: dulse

[Bren]

Is that why your name is dreamer??

dulse...um...a dull...um...se?

No, a coarse, edible, red seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata. Of course

defenestrate

[karenee]

Voluble opposition?

Actually: To throw out of a window.

Oh, wow! I absolutely love this word! hehehe. *plots to find opportunity to use it*

New word: estreating

[Bren]

estreating...paying the way for a former friend?? ;D

(a) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance. (b) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.
Okay, if you say so.

Here's you another...abstemious

You're dangerous with new words

[karenee]

abstemious...uh, having to do with abstaining and pious? hmmm... stringently holding back?

Actually:
1. sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
2. characterized by abstinence: an abstemious life.
3. sparing: an abstemious diet.

Ok, so moderation...I wasn't too far off! Hah. You want me to be abstemious about defenestration?

New word: mulct

[Bren]

Now that looks like a typo to me. Past tense of mulch??

1. to deprive (someone) of something, as by fraud, extortion, etc.; swindle.
2. to obtain (money or the like) by fraud, extortion, etc.
3. to punish (a person) by fine, esp. for a misdemeanor.


You seem like a NEOTERIST to me

No, no...no need to be abstemious about defenestration. GO for it!

[karenee]

terrorized tourist?

Actually: one who introduces new words or phrases.
*I could say the same of all those who participate in this game.*

New word: laic

[dreamer]

being without, not having. Or something to do with milk. Your choice.

A layperson
2. one of the laity

Okay.

New word: enantiomorph

[tinidril]

Someone who can change into an ant?

Actually: Either of a pair of crystals, molecules, or compounds that are mirror images of each other but are not identical, and that rotate the plane of polarized light equally, but in opposite directions.

New word: satrap

[dreamer]

Is that like the golfer's shortened term for a sandtrap?

1. a governor of a province under the ancient Persian monarchy.
2. a subordinate ruler, often a despotic one.

Nope, no golfing there!!

New word: fizgig

[tinidril]

Figwit's brother? (that's a LOTR movie joke...)

fiz‧gig –noun
1. a type of firework that makes a loud hissing sound.
2. a whirling toy that makes a whizzing noise.
3. fishgig.
4. Australian. a police informer.

Nope, no beaut-y-ful elf men there...

New word: pecuniary

[dgan]

An aviary for a rare breed of flying pecans? /

Actually,

1. of or pertaining to money: pecuniary difficulties.
2. consisting of or given or exacted in money or monetary payments: pecuniary tributes.
3. (of a crime, violation, etc.) involving a money penalty or fine.


New word - chamfron