What is your favorite word? Where did you hear it? I think this might be good seeing as we are doing all this vocab stuff, heh.
Mine: Defenestration-The act of throwing something or someone out of a window.
I heard that from my Grandma a few years ago...was very interesting.
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Haha, defenestration. Yes, because we all need a word for throwing someone out of a window. As we do it so often.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite word would be transubstantiation n.
ReplyDeletean act that changes the form or character or substance of something.
Its most common usage is the name of a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. It states that during the Consecration in the Mass the bread and wine change their actual substance to the body and the blood of Jesus.
Second place would be:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
(even though this spell check doesn't recognize it.)
It is a disease of the lungs caused by silica dust. To hear it pronounced click:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
CoCo_Nut: That was the best and most wonderful thing I have heard in weeks. I have NO idea who you are but thank you sooooo much for enlightening me on pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (which I did copy and paste.)
ReplyDeleteFavorite word:.... I don't have one, really. I use the word "ridiculous" a lot but it's not my favorite.
I don't think I'm allowed to post my favorite word:P
ReplyDeleteDefinitely hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Fear of long words :)
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I can't remember it for the life of me ><
ridonculous...but im a terrible speller so i doubt that's how it's spelled. ha, i reminds me of Bolt and those pigeons. =P
ReplyDeleteFlabbergasted. Best onomatopoeia I know. I'm also a big fan of "skimble-skamble," which is an archaic British word meaning discombobulated, confused, rambling.
ReplyDeleteActually, I like all words that look like that: helter-skelter, willy-nilly, piggly-wiggly. I'm a fan of the echo.
I have always like the word supercalafragalisticexpealadocious
ReplyDelete(sp) I have always wanted to know how to really spell it, so it has always been a word that has just stuck out to me.
Epitomy, i just like the way it sounds, but thats today, tomorrow might be a different story.
ReplyDeleteXenocide- the killing of an entire race or people.
ReplyDeleteTranquil, is my favorite word at the moment.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite word is either Charity or Atonement because of the relegious meanings they have for me.
ReplyDeleteAh! I cannot think of one!
ReplyDeleteI don't know. My favorite word would have to be fail. I use it a lot, and people do fail.
ReplyDeletePantelones! It's pants in spanish haha. I just like the way it sounds
ReplyDeleteIndubitably. I've always loved it since the 5th grade.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a favorite word.
ReplyDeleteRight now I am stuck on via. VIA VIA VIA! "Talk to you later, via text. Call you via cell. See you via classroom." Wherever it pops up.
ReplyDeleteMy fav word... lol
ReplyDeleteNarrr. I dont know why.... My sisters and I have said it when we see something grose. :)
Hope
ReplyDeletealana i looked up your word on dictionary.com and it wasn't ther... care to explain. i think i dont have a favorite word... i think i like taking random parts of words and putting them together... its mucheasier than using real words
ReplyDeleteAmanda K: because it's a joke. The actual word for fear of long words is "sesquipedaliphobia." (I'm not sure of the last vowel before -phobia) Somebody thought it would be funny to make it even longer, so they added two words for big things -- hippopotamus and monstrous. Hence, hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliphobia. But it is a wonderful word.
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