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Title: vocab thread
Post by: fatty fat fat on April 12, 2011, 12:27:52 PM
please add words here to expand our vocab.

i'll start.

Perspicacious (per-spi-k-shush): Having a keen insight, or understanding.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: steve dave on April 12, 2011, 12:29:36 PM
huh, I would have pronounced it per-spi-kA-shus
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: pissclams on April 12, 2011, 12:31:09 PM
pur-spi-key-sh uh s
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: AppleJack on April 12, 2011, 12:33:06 PM
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.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: pike on April 12, 2011, 08:00:41 PM
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"And the word of the day is ______"
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 12, 2011, 11:47:58 PM
How about some of you non-97th-percentile-on-the-GRE-vocab losers actually give SkinBen a challenge?  tia.



Perspicacious.    :zzz:
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: fatty fat fat on April 13, 2011, 12:23:47 AM
How about some of you non-97th-percentile-on-the-GRE-vocab losers actually give SkinBen a challenge?  tia.



Perspicacious.    :zzz:

Oh boy.  :cry:
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 13, 2011, 01:24:12 AM
Don't worry, you'll smoke me on videography if you ever come out of retirement!  :emawkid:
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: sys on April 13, 2011, 01:52:27 AM
enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: Trim on April 13, 2011, 05:35:51 AM
enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.

:horrorsurprise:
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 13, 2011, 07:42:07 AM
enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.

Ah, so you're one of THOSE.   :curse:


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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,  :cheers: for participating in this thread!  And that goes for everybody!


Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: OK_Cat on April 13, 2011, 09:27:23 AM
enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.

Ah, so you're one of THOSE.   :curse:


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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,  :cheers: for participating in this thread!  And that goes for everybody!




regis philbin disagrees, and when in doubt, i always side with regis.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 13, 2011, 10:28:45 AM
That is a good way to operate.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on April 13, 2011, 11:11:10 AM
enunciate - to talk a word, phrase or idea.
irregardless - to regard with less than zero regard.


:eye:
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: felix rex on April 13, 2011, 11:50:41 AM
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.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: Joker on April 13, 2011, 12:07:18 PM
Can't ever remember these long enough to actually use them.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: Dual Ju on April 13, 2011, 01:26:19 PM
In the category of "There's a word for that"

Callipygian: having well-shaped buttocks
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: felix rex on April 13, 2011, 02:01:05 PM
In the category of "There's a word for that"

Callipygian: having well-shaped buttocks

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"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."
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: sys on April 13, 2011, 02:50:19 PM
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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.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: felix rex on April 13, 2011, 02:57:17 PM
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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.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: SkinnyBenny on April 13, 2011, 03:09:55 PM
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.
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: Dual Ju on April 13, 2011, 09:08:09 PM
In the category of "There's a word for that"

Callipygian: having well-shaped buttocks

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"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.  :)
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: john "teach me how to" dougie on April 13, 2011, 09:47:46 PM
A German guy at work used this today. He said it was how I felt about KU!  :surprised:

Schadenfreude
Title: Re: vocab thread
Post by: 06wildcat on April 13, 2011, 10:38:36 PM
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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.  :cheers: