post your favorite "25 cent" word

btMOMtoFFBs

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 6:35 am

Please share some of your favorite "big words"

antidiluvian - ancient
supersilious - looking down on someone

p.s. posting this and running off to get ready for work. See you this afternoon.

mama-star

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 8:25 am

I call them 50 point scrabble words...LOL

sophomoric
pedantic
ubiquitous

I'm sure I can think of lots more LOL

ChossidMom

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 8:35 am

btMOMtoFFBs wrote:

Please share some of your favorite "big words"

antidiluvian - ancient
supersilious - looking down on someone

p.s. posting this and running off to get ready for work. See you this afternoon.

I think it's spelled "supercilious" but I'm not sure. Just didn't look right to me. (Hey, if you're going to use fancy words gotta spell 'em right, no? LOL

)

I can't think any of my own right this second.

zaq

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 8:37 am

btMOMtoFFBs wrote:

Please share some of your favorite "big words"

antidiluvian - ancient
supersilious - looking down on someone

p.s. posting this and running off to get ready for work. See you this afternoon.

Those words are spelled antEdiluvian, meaning "from before the Flood", and superCilious. If you post big words and spell them wrong, you're super silly, yes.

chaylizi

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 8:38 am

ChossidMom wrote:

btMOMtoFFBs wrote:

Please share some of your favorite "big words"

antidiluvian - ancient
supersilious - looking down on someone

p.s. posting this and running off to get ready for work. See you this afternoon.

I think it's spelled "supercilious" but I'm not sure. Just didn't look right to me. (Hey, if you're going to use fancy words gotta spell 'em right, no? LOL

)

I can't think any of my own right this second.

it is supercilious. I am totally drawing a blank on any words. I can proofread the thread & caustically comment on other people's posts though. 8)

zaq

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 8:54 am

peripatetic
itinerant
mendacious
gobsmacked
flabbergasted
quaternary
quixotic
moribund
vacuous
portentious

That'll be $2.50, please.

red sea

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 9:11 am

Oh, in my house a 25 cent words are words you shouldnt be using and then you have to put a quarter into the jar. You want big words, I memorized thousands in high school, I wouldnt know which to choose,

Succinctly

teachby

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 2:30 pm

The word "normal" meaning "regular" is perfectly, uh, normal.

But, did you know it can also mean "orthogonal" or "perpendicular"?

As in, vector X is normal to plane YZ.

And, it can also refer to teaching, as in "Normal School", which is a teacher training school.

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hadasa

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 2:56 pm

My favorite is "sesquipedalian", which means "preposterously long words that sound pompous" - of which "sesquipedalian" itself is a good example.

Etymologically it means "words a foot and a half long".

greenfire

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 3:12 pm

justanothermother wrote:

My best 25 cent word would have to be:

Hidden:

and I say you WIN !!!

btMOMtoFFBs

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 3:26 pm

zaq wrote:

btMOMtoFFBs wrote:

Please share some of your favorite "big words"

antidiluvian - ancient
supersilious - looking down on someone

p.s. posting this and running off to get ready for work. See you this afternoon.

Those words are spelled antEdiluvian, meaning "from before the Flood", and superCilious. If you post big words and spell them wrong, you're super silly, yes.

how dolorously malapropos of me! I feel quite lugubrious about the spelling mistakes in my original post. That's what I get for posting at 6:30 in the morning. LOL

Last edited by btMOMtoFFBs on Thu, Dec 18 2008, 3:30 pm; edited 1 time in total

Stepmum

Thu, Dec 18 2008, 3:56 pm

My favourite is 'superfluous'. I know it's not a word with a complex meaning, but I love the sound of it, and use it superfluously.

zaq

Fri, Dec 19 2008, 9:50 am

teachby wrote:

The word "normal" meaning "regular" is perfectly, uh, normal.

But, did you know it can also mean "orthogonal" or "perpenicular"?

.

that's "perpenDicular", honey.

teachby

Fri, Dec 19 2008, 9:57 am

zaq wrote:

teachby wrote:

The word "normal" meaning "regular" is perfectly, uh, normal.

But, did you know it can also mean "orthogonal" or "perpenicular"?

.

that's "perpenDicular", honey.

Oooh!! Oy!! Thank you!! I will edit. (And I am so careful to correct my students' mistakes...bad me!!) And yes, I realize that what I just wrote in parentheses is not a proper sentence.

greenfire

Fri, Dec 19 2008, 10:00 am

you know what is odd ... I always feel fake when I use big words ... but then I realize I know more words than I think I know ... but apparently I cannot think of even one word to post ... so this entire idea to write favorite words is moot

sunshine!

Fri, Dec 19 2008, 10:07 am

These are a few of mine

apprehensive
belligerent
presumptuous
superfluous
ambiguous
hypocritical

Are any of them spelled wrong, oh Mighty Spellcheckers?