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Offline Shecky

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Re: Cool words
« Reply #30 on: May 11, 2011, 06:01:02 PM »
Flotsam is the floating remains of a ship or stuff that was on it. Jetsam is floating stuff that was deliberately tossed from a ship (think "jettison").
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #31 on: May 11, 2011, 06:04:02 PM »
I also have a secret passion for fortification names, sometimes useful for fantasy:  barbican, bartizan, caponier, counterscarp, courtine, demilune, enceinte, fausse braye,  glacis, mamelon, motte, ravelin, redoubt, tenaille

(Yes, I know, fantasy in which cannon or their analogues work).


Quote from: Unsexy Shecky on May 11, 2011, 06:01:02 PM
Flotsam is the floating remains of a ship or stuff that was on it. Jetsam is floating stuff that was deliberately tossed from a ship (think "jettison").

This is my understanding also.  Jetsam was tossed.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #32 on: May 14, 2011, 06:30:49 PM »
I always find cool new words in Robert Ludlum books.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #33 on: May 14, 2011, 07:22:43 PM »
dilettante
onus
bamboozled
actinic
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #34 on: May 15, 2011, 03:30:38 PM »
disheveled 
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #35 on: May 15, 2011, 03:48:56 PM »
not sure if any of these have been used already

Plethora
Harlot
impish
Dervish
Coalition
Citadel
Imperium 
Legion
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #36 on: May 15, 2011, 09:02:28 PM »
Verisimilitude
Posit


I am also a fan of 'discombobulated', its how I always describe the way I feel after a migraine.
Similarly, I love the phrase 'it boggles my mind'. I usually say 'I am unboggled' when I understand things.

I am sure there are more, but it is late and I have consumed many cold remedies. I am very discombobulated.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #37 on: May 15, 2011, 09:13:44 PM »
cwm
dearth
lumen
lacuna
zeppa
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #38 on: May 15, 2011, 11:28:08 PM »
wretch

quandary

antediluvian

rapscallion

Monolith

Aplomb

Quixotic

Reconnoiter

Isthmus

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Re: Cool words
« Reply #39 on: May 16, 2011, 01:44:35 AM »
Yes it is fun!

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titivated

titfer

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Re: Cool words
« Reply #40 on: May 17, 2011, 12:57:10 PM »

twee
prat
cavil
adit
succulent
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #41 on: May 17, 2011, 01:20:20 PM »
Delenda - Things to be deleted or destroyed (IE "Delenda est Carthago", or "Carthage must be destroyed")

Amphigory - A nonsense verse. Specifically, a poem designed to look and sound good, but which has no meaning upon closer reading. (also applies to lots of music from the last 40 years or so.

Locus - A site considered to be the centre of a particular activity. pl. `Loci'

Pleonasm - The use of more words than are required to express an idea... (As much as I love Penny Arcade they frequently do this.)
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #42 on: May 17, 2011, 06:46:44 PM »
I like the pleonasm, Lord Rae.  That's a new one for me.

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Got a great one for older/out of use words.
Mrs. Bryne's wierd, unusual, and bizarre words.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #43 on: May 18, 2011, 03:57:12 AM »
Good, I actually know some of the above mentioned words.
btw, a coprolite is any fossilized dung, not just from dinosaurs.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #44 on: May 18, 2011, 04:20:32 AM »
puerile
recidivism / recidivist
milquetoast
homunculus
Brobdingnagian


Quote from: Dina on May 18, 2011, 03:57:12 AM
btw, a coprolite is any fossilized dung, not just from dinosaurs.
But... but... but I like my story better - 'cause it involves dinosaurs!  ;D

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