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Offline Bearracuda

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Re: Cool words
« Reply #60 on: August 04, 2011, 06:02:57 PM »
Articulate - a.  Using language easily and fluently.  v.  To bring clarity or distinction to

I've liked that one since the day I saw american pie for the first time.  Especially since it can be an adjective or a verb, and the 2 definitions are similar, but just different enough to feel like it's a different word.  You also get to pronounce it differently.  It's just fun.  In fact, this thread is helping teach us to articulate articulately.

Exsanguinate - To drain of blood.

Don't let the vampire stories spoil this one for you.  Assuming you leave emo vampires out, this one can have very nasty implications in your story, especially when you're working with a murder mystery.  Or if you get desperate you can mention meat packing.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #61 on: August 04, 2011, 06:18:55 PM »
I like Donkey Work and haberdasher.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #62 on: August 04, 2011, 06:48:35 PM »
Pulchritude - formal, literary, or physical beauty.

pulchritudinous - Mostly for physical beauty. 

"That girl is pulchritudinous."

I also like old slang like moxie.

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Re: Cool words
« Reply #63 on: August 04, 2011, 07:09:26 PM »
Moll
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #64 on: August 11, 2011, 02:51:11 AM »
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

^ Lots and lots of good words in that song.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #65 on: August 11, 2011, 02:51:59 AM »
Yay!!! I love that song!  :D :D :D
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #66 on: August 11, 2011, 03:17:12 AM »
I liked Mary Poppins right up until I realized that the medicine she was trying to get the kids to take was for polio. That kind of killed the fun factor for me as an adult, even if it did make a mostly ludicrous movie a bit more realistic to the time period it was set in. But the song is awesome. Still doesn't beat Willy Wonka's "Pure Imagination" or "Candy Man Can", for me, but its inherent awesomeness is undeniable. :D
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #67 on: August 11, 2011, 10:51:53 AM »
I used "paucity" in my WIP the other day.  ;D
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #68 on: August 11, 2011, 09:46:04 PM »
Yeah, I used louche the other day on a thread.
Being on the Forum is raising my intelligence and word usage level.
(Right on. ;D)
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #69 on: August 12, 2011, 03:40:14 AM »
Discrete, meaning separate, and indiscrete, meaning its opposite.

One of my favourite bits of verbal misdirection is Nero Wolfe assuring an annoying would-be client that he and Archie are "professionally indiscrete."
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« Reply #70 on: August 12, 2011, 06:48:37 AM »
I love that.  But then I love Nero Wolfe, both the books and the TV show.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #71 on: August 17, 2011, 07:26:00 AM »
Found a cool word today.
The word - Manes - which was the word that the Romans used for a ghost or shade.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #72 on: August 17, 2011, 01:30:02 PM »
pule (pyool) - to whine or wimper.

Also, I think someone early in the thread said mavin is a word for master, but I think it's maven - one who is experienced or knowledgeable, and expert.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #73 on: August 17, 2011, 02:19:14 PM »
Quote from: Griffyn612 on August 17, 2011, 01:30:02 PM
Also, I think someone early in the thread said mavin is a word for master, but I think it's maven - one who is experienced or knowledgeable, and expert.

It is indeed maven.  Hence:

Once upon a weekend weary, while I pondered, beat and bleary,
Over many a faintly printed hexadecimal dump of core --
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As of some Source user chatting, chatting of some Mavenlore.
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Re: Cool words
« Reply #74 on: October 16, 2011, 02:52:09 AM »
"Harrumphed", and Word knows how it's spelled.  ;D
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