vocab thread

[fatty fat fat]

please add words here to expand our vocab.

i'll start.

Perspicacious (per-spi-k-shush): Having a keen insight, or understanding.

[steve dave]

huh, I would have pronounced it per-spi-kA-shus

[pissclams]

pur-spi-key-sh uh s

[AppleJack]

ac·cou·tre·ment / ??ko?ot?rm?nt/ Noun

1. Additional items of dress or equipment, carried or worn by a person or used for a particular activity.

2. A soldier's outfit other than weapons and garments.

[pike]

"And the word of the day is ______"

[SkinnyBenny]

How about some of you non-97th-percentile-on-the-GRE-vocab losers actually give SkinBen a challenge?  tia.



Perspicacious.    

[fatty fat fat]

How about some of you non-97th-percentile-on-the-GRE-vocab losers actually give SkinBen a challenge?  tia.



Perspicacious.    

Oh boy. 

[SkinnyBenny]

Don't worry, you'll smoke me on videography if you ever come out of retirement! 

[sys]

enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.

[Trim]

enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.

[SkinnyBenny]

enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.

Ah, so you're one of THOSE.   

Irregardless
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irregardless is an informal term commonly used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since it first appeared in the early twentieth century. Most dictionaries list it as "nonstandard" or "incorrect".

Still,  for participating in this thread!  And that goes for everybody!

[OK_Cat]

enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.

Ah, so you're one of THOSE.   

Irregardless
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irregardless is an informal term commonly used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since it first appeared in the early twentieth century. Most dictionaries list it as "nonstandard" or "incorrect".

Still,  for participating in this thread!  And that goes for everybody!

regis philbin disagrees, and when in doubt, i always side with regis.

[SkinnyBenny]

That is a good way to operate.

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.

[felix rex]

half-smoke: a delicious spicy hot dog that only costs a dollar from the street vendors and I don't know what it's actually made of.

[Joker]

Can't ever remember these long enough to actually use them.

[Dual Ju]

In the category of "There's a word for that"

Callipygian: having well-shaped buttocks

[felix rex]

In the category of "There's a word for that"

Callipygian: having well-shaped buttocks

"Her gown (perhaps as a result of the scorching winds coming off the ambas) clung damply to her body, clearly revealing her callipygian curves and the entire shapely length of her legs."

[sys]

Irregardless
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irregardless is an informal term commonly used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since it first appeared in the early twentieth century. Most dictionaries list it as "nonstandard" or "incorrect".

this is why i recommend private schools for anyone that can afford it.

[felix rex]

Irregardless
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irregardless is an informal term commonly used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since it first appeared in the early twentieth century. Most dictionaries list it as "nonstandard" or "incorrect".

this is why i recommend private schools for anyone that can afford it.

I'm gonna wait for 06wealthycat to weigh on this.

[SkinnyBenny]

One of the best words ever: avuncular.  It means relating to an uncle, or if you are cool enough to pull it off, having traits and/or behavior similar to that of an uncle.

Larry David used it in an episode of CYE once and my wiener nearly expectorated in my pants.           <------a halfway-accurate vocab joke.  lol.

[Dual Ju]

In the category of "There's a word for that"

Callipygian: having well-shaped buttocks

"Her gown (perhaps as a result of the scorching winds coming off the ambas) clung damply to her body, clearly revealing her callipygian curves and the entire shapely length of her legs."

Nothing would delight me more than to have that word come up at the Scripps National Spelling Bee and listen to Jacques Bailly recite that sentence. 

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

A German guy at work used this today. He said it was how I felt about KU! 

Schadenfreude

[06wildcat]

Irregardless
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irregardless is an informal term commonly used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since it first appeared in the early twentieth century. Most dictionaries list it as "nonstandard" or "incorrect".

this is why i recommend private schools for anyone that can afford it.

I'm gonna wait for 06wealthycat to weigh on this.

Just understand the difference between being rich and having class. Obviously I have neither.

If sys went to a private school he would know a more formal way to phrase that sentence though.