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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 04:27 PM
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100 Words You Should Know
Last June, VenusRising posted the the list of words that high school grads should know. This is the advanced list:

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/100wordlovers/">100 Words Every Word Lover Should Know



aesthetic or esthetic
alchemy
allegory
anachronism
anathema
bailiwick
beleaguered
bromide
cappuccino
caprice
caribou
chiasmus
chortle
coccyx
crescendo
cruciverbalist
desultory
detritus
didjeridoo or didgeridoo
ebullient
echelon
egregious
ephemeral
epicure
ersatz
facetious
fecundity
focaccia
fusty
gemütlichkeit
glossolalia
gossamer
gravamen
halcyon
hiatus
humuhumunukunukuapuaa
iconoclast
insouciant
interloper
internecine
inveigle
jeremiad
juxtaposition
koan
laconic
lagniappe
leprechaun
litotes
lucubrate
magnanimous
maharajah or maharaja
malapropism
meretricious
mesmerize
meticulous
milieu
mitochondrion
nemesis
nictitate
nostrum
nudnik also nudnick
obloquy
obstreperous
oxymoron
palaver
pejorative
precarious
prestidigitation
preternatural
quark
quixotic
redolent
repugnant
rubric
sang-froid or sangfroid
sarcophagus
schwa
serendipity
sesquipedalian
shaman
sinecure
snakebit also snakebitten
soporific
succotash
susurration
syzygy
tantalize
theory
timbre
troglodyte
ullage
umlaut
vicissitude
visceral
voluptuous
wassail
xerophyte
yogh
Zeitgeist
zenith
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 04:40 PM
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1. Ah vocabulary knowledge is my bailiwick!
I always chortle at people who think word knowledge is an anachronism in this day of spell check!
My theory is that people who don't study vocubulary words are displaying egregious ignorance of English. Although I do love a good malapropism from time to time.
Anyone who wants to argue with me, will be my new nemesis!
(Yes, I'm a show off...):P
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siligut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 09:34 PM
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13. I don't want to argue!
You might like the Farlex free dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/. They have a new word matching game everyday, a place to play hangman, spelling game and more. Lots of fun.
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:11 PM
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20. One should, however, eschew ostentation
don't you think? :shrug:
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 05:13 PM
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2. 93 out of 100. Yet my sex life is 100%...
...Wait, "word lovers"? Shit. I must admit, I misread that. Thought it was "100 words every lover should know." I caught it, obviously.

Mine: yogh, schwa, nictitate, litotes... and the other three.
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zingaro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 10:22 PM
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17. That is exactly what my brain read on the first take.
Any clue what it says about you or me? :rofl:
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 02:07 PM
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18. We're hopelessly randy? Orally fixated?...
... Language and lust have always gone together in my life. Consider the tongue: such a versatile instrument of passion and communication.
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 02:14 PM
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19. That's what I thought as well....
....and I was asking myself how the word "leprechaun" was supposed to apply. Silly me. :eyes:
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 05:17 PM
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3. When playing contact supports one should take care to protect one's coccyx
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 05:47 PM
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4. why is snakebit on the list?
I don't claim to be a word lover although I do love to read. Snakebit seems a bit odd compared to the other words on the list though. :shrug:
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 05:50 PM
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5. Troglodyte? really?
:shrug:
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 05:56 PM
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6. Maybe it was sponsored by Geico...
:)
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 05:58 PM
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7. this list is quite verbose...
coming from me, that's probably saying something.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 06:03 PM
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8. this is my new favorite word...
humuhumunukunukuapuaa

AS soon as I figure out how to pronounce it....

:P
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 06:55 PM
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9. hear it pronounced
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=humuhumunukunukuapuaa">humuhumunukunukuapuaa

Click on the little speaker icon.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 09:20 PM
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12. Sweet, thanks...
Now I know how to pronounce it.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 08:47 PM
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11. Our state fish!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humuhumunukunukuapua%27a#Hawaii_state_fish

Due to an expiration of a Hawaiian state law, the trigger fish ceased to be the state fish of Hawaii in 1990. On April 17, 2006, bill HB1982 was presented to the Governor of Hawaiʻi which permanently reinstated the reef triggerfish (humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa) as the state fish of Hawaiʻi. The bill passed into law on May 2, 2006 and was effective upon its approval.

Humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa means "triggerfish with a pig-like short snout". It is not, as often claimed, the longest fish name in Hawaiian; that distinction belongs to lauwiliwilinukunukuʻoiʻoi ("long-snouted fish shaped like a wiliwili leaf"), the butterflyfish Forcipiger longirostris. For the purposes of religious sacrifices, every land animal in the Hawaiian islands had an equivalent in the sea. The Humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa was seen as equal to a pig.

Note that humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa, and Hawaiʻi itself, are spelled with an ʻokina ( ʻ ). It is a consonant in ʻolelo Hawaiʻi, and is pronounced as a glottal stop (like in "uh-oh", or for you East Coasters, "Trenton" or "New Britain").
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 08:45 PM
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10. I've not a small appreciation for litotes




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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 09:47 PM
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14. I had to look up three of those
(chiasmus, humuhumunukunukuapuaa, and yogh).

Sigh. I need a life....

BTW, Firefox didn't recognize those words either: all three are underlined in red. But then they also don't know from Obama.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 09:53 PM
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15. "Chiasmus?" That makes it a bullshit list, immediately.
Most of the other words are ones I'd expect people to know, but that one, especially when followed by words like "ullage," make the list cross the line into the realm of the ridiculous.

Yes, there are word of which everyone should know the meaning. But not many of the ones in this list.

Redstone
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 10:11 PM
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16. K&R for humuhumunukunukuapuaa
:woohoo:
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