Subject:
Re: An Invader at alt.surrealism
Date:
13 Oct 1998 00:00:00 GMT
From:
jimvan@gate.net (Jim Vandewalker)
Organization:
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Newsgroups:
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References:
1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17
In article <36233186.306752445@news1.radix.net>, nospamum@radix.net wrote:
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{ I'm the chairman and the game is
{ fixed! As panel members, you don't get a VOTE, you just get plenty of
{ time to ridicule him and offer hints that I should have thought to
{ mention. Stuff that in your bangio!
Okay, now -- try these. Real words, and each one has at least one real
definition attached.
1. obnubilate \ahb-NUE-buh-late\ (verb) :
a. (verb) becloud, obscure
b. (verb) to come of marriagible age
c. (verb) to rub or stub out violently
2. flageolet \flaj-uh-LET, flaj-uh-LAY\
a. (noun) a small flute resembling the treble recorder.
b. (noun) a sort of bean
c. (noun) a flower of the iris family
3. couloir \cool-WAHR\
a. (noun) a steep mountainside gorge
b. (noun) a holder for coal or other fuel for a fire
c. (noun) a Provençal mountain sheep formerly hunted for sport
4. pogonip \PAH-guh-nip\
a. (noun) a dense winter fog containing frozen particles that is formed in
deep mountain valleys of the western U.S.
b. (noun) a leaf disease of tomatoes and potatoes
c. (noun) an Australian jumping beetle
5. doch-an-dorris \dakh-un-DOOR-us (kh as in BaCH)\
a. (noun) a parting drink
b. (noun) a popular television comedy in Wales in the 1980s
c. (noun) a decorative form of lock and key made through the end of the
19th century by Cornwall and other west country blacksmiths
6. litotes \LIE-tuh-teez, LIT-uh-teez, lie-TOH-teez\
a. (noun) understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the
negative of the contrary
b. (noun) any of several species of tropical moths native to Arabia Felix
and the Horn of Africa
c. (noun) a medieval drinking vessel made of scraped horn
7. cynosure \SIE-nuh-shoor, SIN-uh-shoor\
a. (noun) the northern constellation Ursa Minor; also : North Star
b. (noun) a center of attraction or attention
c. (adjective) in medicine a blue condition of the lips and nails
indicating oxygen deficit
8. diapause \DIE-uh-pauze\
a. (noun) a period of physiologically enforced dormancy between periods of
activity
b. (noun) the end of the day; twilight
c. (noun) the next to the last foot of a line in anapestic meter
9. orgulous \OR-gyuh-lus, OR-guh-lus\
a. (adjective) proud
b. (noun) a kind of finish applied to linen fabric
c. (adjective) said of an organ or tissue suffused with blood or other fluid
10. campanologist \kam-puh-NAH-luh-jist\ (noun) :
a. (noun) one that practices or is skilled in the art of bell ringing
b. (noun) one who makes or studies varieties of vinegar
11. scrimshander \SKRIM-shan-der\
a. (noun) a person who creates scrimshaw
b. (noun) an alcoholic drink of scrumpy or fermented apple cider and lager
c. (noun) in theatre parlance the person in charge of raising and lowering
backdrops and scrims
12. fugacious \fyew-GAY-shus\
a. (adjective) disappearing before the usual time -- used chiefly of plant
parts
b. (adjective) covered in fine mold; scaly
c. (adjective) said of a particularly thick and persistant sea fog
13. cacography \kak-AH-gruh-fee\
a. (noun) bad spelling
b. (noun) the study of the distribution of natural fertilizers and phosphates
14. tontine \TAHN-teen or tahn-TEEN\
a. (noun) a joint financial arrangement whereby the participants usually
contribute equally to a prize that is awarded entirely to the participant
who survives all the others
b. (noun) a Mexican saddle of the late Spanish colonial period decorated
with silver and turquoise
c. (noun) a kind of lacquer used to decorate boxes and furniture
15. sternutation \stur-nyuh-TAY-shun\
a. (noun) the act, fact, or noise of sneezing
b. (noun) the act of steering or guiding a towed boat or barge
c. (noun) the audible whistle or wheeze heard by stethoscope in the lungs
of those impaired by asthma or pneumonic disease
16. banausic \buh-NAW-sick or buh-NAW-zick\ :
a. (adjective) relating to or concerned with earning a living -- used
pejoratively
b. (noun) a tropical disease related to undulant fever and endemic to
Central Africa
c. (adjective) the weatherbeaten or rotted condition of old rope or line
and hence said of any rock climbing equipment that is no longer fit for
service
17. welkin \WELL-kun\
a. (noun) the vault of the sky : firmament
b. (noun) a small bell usually attached to the harness of a pony or dog
c. (noun) a mollusc found in the waters of the North Sea and the Rhine and
Scheldt estuaries; considered a delicacy in Holland and Belgium
18. nychthemeron \nick-THEHM-uh-rahn (TH as in "think")
a. (noun) a full period of a night and a day
b. (noun) a classical Grecian stringed instrument tuned in the Myxolidian mode
c. (noun) the legal and ecclesiastical bureaucracy of the Byzantine Empire
considered as a whole
19. pridian \PRID-ee-un\
a. (adjective) of or relating to a previous day or to yesterday
b. (noun) a medieval university librarian or bookbinder; now an honorary
title at Jesus College, Oxford
20. paronomasia \pair-uh-no-MAY-zhee-uh or pair-ah-nuh-MAY-zhee-uh\
a. (noun) a play on words
b. (noun) in neuroscience the inability to name objects; caused by injury
to or disease of the prefrontal fontanaleae
21. canicular \kuh-NIK-yuh-lur\
a.(adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer
b. (noun) a mehanical lift for ascending a steep slope by means of a cog
and rail
c. (noun) a kind of woven matting used for chairs and stools
22. saltation \sal-TAY-shun or sawl-TAY-shun\
a. (noun) the action or process of leaping or jumping
b. (noun) dance
c. (noun) the origin of a new species or a higher taxon in essentially a
single evolutionary step that in some especially former theories is held to
be due to a major mutation or to unknown causes
d. (noun) the transportation of particles by currents of water or air in
such a manner that they move along in a series of short intermittent
movements
--
Jim the Prophet
Licensed SubGenius Minister