Wriging Thread: Favorite New Word

Favorite New Word

cooper — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:39:21

If you go to free rice you can test your word skills and give grains of rice at the same time.

I was 40/40 until I hit "bailey" which means "castle wall". Don't know how I can fit that into a conversation.

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Clarkey — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:03:39

I dropped out a formulaic the other day when describing a book I had read. It drew a couple of "Ooh, get you" comments. Funny.

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trevorlee_nc — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:46:40

clear out of the blue last saturday night (sunday morning really), I revived "jeepers"....and it's been stuck in my personal vocab since...

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RightOn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:16:58

I just finished proofing a friends application for a teaching job. Made him take out MATRICULATED as it was the ONLY $10 word in the whole app.

Cool yet "stuffy" word if you ask me :)

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darkmotion — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:15:17

I like prefixing adjectives with WAY to sound dorky sometimes when I am being sarcastic.
E.g. :
Oh wow sitting through that lecture was WAY cool.
This movie is WAY boring.

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Ollie — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:11:23

Curmudgeon. It's such a horrible-sounding word, but oddly enough I've grown to quite like it.

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cooper — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:42:00

@ Right On

So "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" .

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RightOn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:31:23

I used Bifurcate the other day and my wife looked at me like I was from Mars.

I was bifurcating oranges people!

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shadowsun7 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:40:00

Mine is encapsulate. No friggin idea why I like it so much, other than it has more than 3 syllables and sounds vaguely professional.

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animejulie — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:29:18

Mine is "scoopulate." This is my most important job during lunch, when I portion out the rice from the rice cooker. I am the only person who can scoopulate in three equal servings, so when the rice cooker pops, I am ordered to quickly scoopulate the rice so we can eat our lunch and take a break from our work.

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Kamigoroshi — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:39:27

"Affirm" is my new favourite word. Only because there is a lot of that in my research this year.

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RightOn — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:29:37

It's not a COOL word or anything but I heard it on the radio on my way to work this morning.

Virga - an observable streak or shaft of precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground.

I thought it was cool... :)

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chapstick — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:21:02

"Commonality" is my new favorite.

But for as long as I can remember, I've always liked the word "defenestrate". I like threatening people with that word. >:)

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Mike — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:08:04

I say nebulous a lot, not sure why.

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ryanarrowsmith — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:05:55

It's not a new word, but I've been saying "stymied" a lot more recently. It feels good to say.

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bloglily — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:06:47

OOO. Very nice, Cooper. Apparently, you are I are the geeky word people around here!

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cooper — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:14:39

Mine is actually "vulpine". I know it is a pretty simple word, but I don't believe I've ever used it before, it means of or like a fox, crafty or cunning.

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bloglily — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:44:38

Mine is numerate! Isn't that a great word? When used as an adjective, it basically means to be literate with numbers. I just wish I could figure out how to use it, not being particularly numerate myself. (And when I remember whose blog I discovered that word on, I'll add a link.)

What's the new word you use -- or would like to use -- the most these days?