New Word Of The Day

[LeslieDean]

I ran across this "word of the day" and thought it applied to how many may feel from all the worries and strife.

 

We will spell the word and use it in a sentence.  Like in a spelling bee!

 

Exhasustipated.  E-x-h-a-u-s-t-i-p-a-t-e-d.  Defined as "too tired to give a crap"   Exhaustipitated.

[bagwell1987]

Ok Leslie, I'll take a stab:

 

sui generis-  Among history's greats, Leonardo da Vinci is often considered sui generis—a man of such stupendous genius that the world may never see his like again.

[bagwell1987]

OK friends, come on. Leslie and I can't be the only ones who want to do this? It does pay to enrich your word power!

 

 

Requite- (rih kwyte)

 

   to make suitable return to for a benefit or service or for an injury

[barbara10]

diaspora - displacement of Jews as in after the Holocaust.  Generally, can refer to Jews today living outside of Israel.

[walkr2]

abe·ce·dar·i·an\ˌā-bē-(ˌ)sē-ˈder-ē-ən\

noun

: one learning the rudiments of something (as the alphabet)

[Lilac Isosceles]

Both of my children have one of these.

 

Floordrobe: noun(informal); a pile of clothes left on the floor of a room. 

 

A form of storage for clothing which requires no hangers, drawers, doors or effort. Simply drop on the floor and you have a floordrobe. 

 

[barbara10]

pragmatic - reasonable, practical. 

 

His pragmatic response was easy to understand.

[Lilac Isosceles]

Abibliophobia (noun): The fear of running out of having reading material.

You may laugh at this, but many people experience milder forms of this condition every day. For example, if you are a voracious reader and you commence a long plane journey only to realize you accidentally left behind all your books, you will experience a mild form of abibliophobia.

You will always recognize the abibliophobic personality at a breakfast table. He or she is the one who momentarily panics when there is no newspaper or magazine in sight and then proceeds to read the contents of the cereal box.

 

Sadly I have been known to suffer from this.

[bagwell1987]

Efflorescence- ef-luh-RESS-unss\

 

1- the action or process of developing and unfolding as if coming into flower

2- period or state of flowering

 

Illustrated:

 

Perhaps a collective sense of anxiety about the natural world … has prompted an efflorescence of books about trees from an aesthetic and cultural standpoint in the last decade or so." — From a review by William Pannapacker in The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 16, 2012

[walkr2]

de proundis

Definition: out of the depths (of sorrow, despair, etc.).

adverb

[bagwell1987]

de proundis

Definition: out of the depths (of sorrow, despair, etc.).

adverb

 

 

OOOO, nice one sis!

[bagwell1987]

WYSIWYG- WIZ-ee-wig

 

Example- He wrote a word processor called Bravo that displayed text on a computer screen as it would appear when printed on a page—a breakthrough technique at the time, called WYSIWYG, What You See Is What You Get." — From an article by Steve Lohr in The New York Times, October 22, 2012

 

I liked this one!

[Lilac Isosceles]

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia 

 

No it is not the fear of giant hippos

 

 

 

It is the fear of long words. How ironic.  

 

 

 

[bagwell1987]

Oh my that's just riotousuproarious!!

[surfergirl]

1. non·cha·lant  

   /ˌnänSHəˈlänt/

    

   Adjective

   (of a person or manner) Feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed.

    

   Synonyms

   indifferent - unconcerned - careless - negligent