Tabitha
First short story featured in regional newspaper
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Post by Tabitha on Dec 2, 2006 10:07:23 GMT -5
Triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13
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Post by Dominique on Dec 22, 2006 8:19:59 GMT -5
supercilious: adj. "contemptuous, overbearing, haughty, indifferent, arogant, disdainful".
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Post by Dominique on Dec 26, 2006 5:27:16 GMT -5
Convivial def: adj. "festive, social, jovial"
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Post by Dominique on Dec 26, 2006 6:27:08 GMT -5
"bricolage", noun, def: "Construction or something constructed by using whatever materials happen to be available." lol kind of like a collage I guess but a constructed thingy.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 28, 2006 17:19:13 GMT -5
did you know that supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is actually a word. or it is on www.dictionary.com. it just says its a nonsense word meaning fantastic. therefore, one would also think it's in the thesaurus as well haha
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
Posts: 7,214
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Post by Kristie on Apr 20, 2007 14:22:22 GMT -5
deus ex machina \DAY-us-eks-MAH-kih-nuh\ noun : a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty
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kinabolina
First poem written for Mother’s Day
Clever Pudding, Pudding's Clever
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Post by kinabolina on Apr 25, 2007 22:05:09 GMT -5
Came accross this one in the NYTimes today: PENTIMENTO Painting - the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over. An underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting, part of a painting, or original draft, that shows through, usually when the top layer of paint has become transparent with age. Link to article (it's the last line): www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/fashion/22POSS.html?_r=1&ref=fashion&oref=slogin
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Lu
Administrator
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Post by Lu on Jul 11, 2007 10:12:06 GMT -5
I'm studying Science and Technology of Materials now and I've just read this word: austenite noun Metallurgy a solid solution of carbon in a nonmagnetic form of iron, stable at high temperatures. It is a constituent of some forms of steel. I've heard it millions times but I've never realized that it sounds like a sort of illness caused by too much reading Jane Austen ;D by the way, a relation to "Austen" isn't so far from the truth: ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from the name of Sir William Roberts- Austen (1843–1902), English metallurgist. eh,eh, that shows how much I can concentrate today ...I think I need a break..
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bluejay765
First short story featured in regional newspaper
"I can go from zero to studying in less than sixty seconds."
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Post by bluejay765 on Aug 15, 2007 22:22:59 GMT -5
phantasmagoric a constantly shifting group of imagined things
(the scarlet letter)
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Brunella
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
Posts: 1,441
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Post by Brunella on Aug 30, 2007 17:58:40 GMT -5
Paroxysm: (noun) a sudden attack or outburst.
I love this word! I have to give an oral presentation for a contest with a friend, and he told me he could go first, know the lay of the land, and that I could go next and use all those "fancy words" I know, lol. And I responded "Oh, yeah. I'm gonna have a total paroxysm of verbiage!!" to what he responded with a wow, lol ;D.
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Post by Hazy on Aug 31, 2007 7:54:22 GMT -5
mea culpa: (noun) an acknowledgment of your error or guilt
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Brunella
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
Posts: 1,441
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Post by Brunella on Sept 29, 2007 10:33:57 GMT -5
Facetious: (adjective) trivially or inappropriately humorous
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bookworm148
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of a sky of a tree called life."
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Post by bookworm148 on Oct 31, 2007 22:50:55 GMT -5
did you know that supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is actually a word. or it is on www.dictionary.com. it just says its a nonsense word meaning fantastic. therefore, one would also think it's in the thesaurus as well haha That is completely awesome!
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Brunella
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
Posts: 1,441
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Post by Brunella on Dec 29, 2007 19:39:48 GMT -5
This one is very popular in Spanish (opinar), but not so much in English: Opine: (verb) to express judgments or opinions
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