New word thread

bliss · 01-20-2017, 10:42 AM

I thought this might be fun. I came across a word today that I didn't know and had to look up. I thought I'd share it and make a place for us to share other new words. Have you come across anything interesting lately? Maybe your favorite word?
My word today was execrable . It means extremely bad, terrible, atrocious.

Beth1231 · 01-20-2017, 11:05 AM

I love it! I've heard execrable one time and it's a cd of a Narnia book being read. The great god Tash is described with that word.

I'll keep my ears/eyes open for a new one today

BestLaidPlans · 01-20-2017, 11:43 AM

Ooh, I love words. I am gonna like this thread!

I heard and looked up a new word this week. Let me try to remember what it was...

RiverRock · 01-20-2017, 04:42 PM

I recently learned a bad word. A very, yucky, bad word. Muricide. Only read the spoiler if you don't have a weak stomach or the timing for a disgusting story is good.

Kiara.I · 01-21-2017, 10:06 PM

Threnody. It was in a book I was reading to the kids. It's a lament (poem, story, song) composed as a memorial for a dead person.

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BestLaidPlans · 01-22-2017, 08:02 AM

Phantasmagoria -

1 an exhibition of optical effects and illusions
2a a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined
2b a scene that constantly changes
3 a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage

1. having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination. 2. having the appearance of an optical illusion, especially one produced by a magic lantern. 3. changing or shifting, as a scene made up of many elements.

RiverRock · 01-22-2017, 09:16 PM

The word post-truth was used in our church sermon this morning. Apparently it's the 2016 word of the year according to Oxford dictionaries. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/wo...-the-year-2016

bliss · 01-23-2017, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RiverRock

The word post-truth was used in our church sermon this morning. Apparently it's the 2016 word of the year according to Oxford dictionaries. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/wo...-the-year-2016

flowermama · 01-31-2017, 01:16 PM

I came across word I was unfamiliar with in this article -- "diktat."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ocracy/513872/

"Those citizens who fantasize about defying tyranny from within fortified compounds have never understood how liberty is actually threatened in a modern bureaucratic state: not by diktat and violence, but by the slow, demoralizing process of corruption and deceit."

diktat: an order or decree imposed by someone in power without popular consent.

Anyway, I thought it was a good word to know.

bliss · 01-31-2017, 10:01 PM

Interesring, it's like "dictate" but different

. I love etemology and linguistics.

SalH · 02-02-2017, 01:18 AM

The boys played scrabble on Monday. I had previously promised if any of them played 'caziques' then we would all get doughnuts.

Mr 9 managed it after mr 14 took pity and left an available e. He scored 80 and mr 14 still won, that's my boy!!!

Doughnuts were paid for by a mystery donation that dh came home with after finding a financial gift in his pigeon hole. So it was meant to be.

Caziques means a tribal chief. Plural of. They got it out of the rules info that came with the anniversary edition.

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Kiara.I · 02-03-2017, 11:04 PM

Ambit:
1: circuit, compass
2: the bounds or limits of a place or district
3: a sphere of action, expression, or influence : scope

SalH · 02-04-2017, 01:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiara.I

Ambit:

1: circuit, compass

2: the bounds or limits of a place or district

3: a sphere of action, expression, or influence : scope

That's a word I've used a lot...!

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flowermama · 02-11-2017, 01:49 PM

I came across this word while reading today.

irredentist: a person advocating the restoration to their country of any territory formerly belonging to it.

I don't foresee myself using that one very often.

bliss · 02-11-2017, 08:28 PM

So then it's not a sparkly tooth doctor?

01-20-2017, 10:42 AM	#1
bliss Rose Garden NEUROSPICY! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Other worlds than these Posts: 13,430	New word thread I thought this might be fun. I came across a word today that I didn't know and had to look up. I thought I'd share it and make a place for us to share other new words. Have you come across anything interesting lately? Maybe your favorite word? My word today was execrable . It means extremely bad, terrible, atrocious. __________________ Me, The Surveyor, The Truck Driver, The Landscaper, The SAHM, The Grocery Manager, The Gamer, The Gardener, The Home Improvement Manager, and The Grandkids

01-20-2017, 11:05 AM	#2
Beth1231 Deactivated Join Date: May 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 14,962	Re: New word thread I love it! I've heard execrable one time and it's a cd of a Narnia book being read. The great god Tash is described with that word. I'll keep my ears/eyes open for a new one today

01-20-2017, 11:43 AM	#3
BestLaidPlans Rose Trellis What was I… eh, scrap it. I'm taking a nap. Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Here, there, and yonder Posts: 2,232	Re: New word thread Ooh, I love words. I am gonna like this thread! I heard and looked up a new word this week. Let me try to remember what it was... __________________ Mom to my 7 sillies 5 girls 2 boys 4 of my 7 are teens - now 5 are teens! 5 of my 7 have special needs “Motherhood is heaven and hell, hard and holy.” -quote from Rachel Nielson

01-20-2017, 04:42 PM	#4
RiverRock Moderator Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms. Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: In green pastures Posts: 9,767	Re: New word thread I recently learned a bad word. A very, yucky, bad word. Muricide. Only read the spoiler if you don't have a weak stomach or the timing for a disgusting story is good. In my art studio I found a partially eaten mouse (head and feet missing), and rat droppings. This lead me to a Google search to find out what was going on. Basically rats and mice won't live in the same place and will fight it out until one leaves. In my situation the mice won because rats are afraid of chickens and my studio is attached to a chicken barn. Usually rats win. Rats are :shudder. Field mice sometimes come in to my studio when the rains are heavy. __________________ RiverRock, mom to a 24 year old diamond, 22 year old granite, 19 year old pearl, and 16 year old tiger eye. Married for 25 years to a rugged boulder and resting together on the one true Rock.

01-21-2017, 10:06 PM	#5
Kiara.I Rose Garden Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: The Pacific South-West. You know, north of the Pacific North-West Posts: 12,922	Re: New word thread Threnody. It was in a book I was reading to the kids. It's a lament (poem, story, song) composed as a memorial for a dead person. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk __________________ ENTP fits me to a T, though it took me forever to figure it out! DYT Type 3, Enn. Type 1 (hold that thought...enneagram crisis...might be a 7!) Sparks (9) ; Spitfire (8); Sprite (4.5)

01-22-2017, 08:02 AM	#6
BestLaidPlans Rose Trellis What was I… eh, scrap it. I'm taking a nap. Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Here, there, and yonder Posts: 2,232	Re: New word thread Phantasmagoria - 1 an exhibition of optical effects and illusions 2a a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined 2b a scene that constantly changes 3 a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage 1. having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination. 2. having the appearance of an optical illusion, especially one produced by a magic lantern. 3. changing or shifting, as a scene made up of many elements. __________________ Mom to my 7 sillies 5 girls 2 boys 4 of my 7 are teens - now 5 are teens! 5 of my 7 have special needs “Motherhood is heaven and hell, hard and holy.” -quote from Rachel Nielson

01-22-2017, 09:16 PM	#7
RiverRock Moderator Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms. Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: In green pastures Posts: 9,767	Re: New word thread The word post-truth was used in our church sermon this morning. Apparently it's the 2016 word of the year according to Oxford dictionaries. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/wo...-the-year-2016 __________________ RiverRock, mom to a 24 year old diamond, 22 year old granite, 19 year old pearl, and 16 year old tiger eye. Married for 25 years to a rugged boulder and resting together on the one true Rock.

01-31-2017, 01:16 PM	#9
flowermama Owner/Founder of GCM Administrator Run with endurance the race that is set before you. . . Heb. 12:1 Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 30,571	Re: New word thread I came across word I was unfamiliar with in this article -- "diktat." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ocracy/513872/ "Those citizens who fantasize about defying tyranny from within fortified compounds have never understood how liberty is actually threatened in a modern bureaucratic state: not by diktat and violence, but by the slow, demoralizing process of corruption and deceit." diktat: an order or decree imposed by someone in power without popular consent. Anyway, I thought it was a good word to know. __________________ ~ Jeri Vegan mom to my vegan kiddos DD1 (24), DS1 (21), DD2 (18), and DS2 (15) And wife to my gentle DH for 26 years and counting Instagram: gentleveganrunner gentlechristianmothers Last edited by flowermama; 01-31-2017 at 04:17 PM.

01-31-2017, 10:01 PM	#10
bliss Rose Garden NEUROSPICY! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Other worlds than these Posts: 13,430	Re: New word thread Interesring, it's like "dictate" but different . I love etemology and linguistics. __________________ Me, The Surveyor, The Truck Driver, The Landscaper, The SAHM, The Grocery Manager, The Gamer, The Gardener, The Home Improvement Manager, and The Grandkids

02-02-2017, 01:18 AM	#11
SalH Rose Trellis Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 1,590	Re: New word thread The boys played scrabble on Monday. I had previously promised if any of them played 'caziques' then we would all get doughnuts. Mr 9 managed it after mr 14 took pity and left an available e. He scored 80 and mr 14 still won, that's my boy!!! Doughnuts were paid for by a mystery donation that dh came home with after finding a financial gift in his pigeon hole. So it was meant to be. Caziques means a tribal chief. Plural of. They got it out of the rules info that came with the anniversary edition. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk __________________ Sal (41) wife to Matthew (41) Home educating mummy to: DS1 (13), DS2 (11) DS3 (9), DD1 (7), DD2 (5) and DD3 (3).

02-03-2017, 11:04 PM	#12
Kiara.I Rose Garden Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: The Pacific South-West. You know, north of the Pacific North-West Posts: 12,922	Re: New word thread Ambit: 1: circuit, compass 2: the bounds or limits of a place or district 3: a sphere of action, expression, or influence : scope __________________ ENTP fits me to a T, though it took me forever to figure it out! DYT Type 3, Enn. Type 1 (hold that thought...enneagram crisis...might be a 7!) Sparks (9) ; Spitfire (8); Sprite (4.5)

02-11-2017, 01:49 PM	#14
flowermama Owner/Founder of GCM Administrator Run with endurance the race that is set before you. . . Heb. 12:1 Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 30,571	Re: New word thread I came across this word while reading today. irredentist: a person advocating the restoration to their country of any territory formerly belonging to it. I don't foresee myself using that one very often. __________________ ~ Jeri Vegan mom to my vegan kiddos DD1 (24), DS1 (21), DD2 (18), and DS2 (15) And wife to my gentle DH for 26 years and counting Instagram: gentleveganrunner gentlechristianmothers

02-11-2017, 08:28 PM	#15
bliss Rose Garden NEUROSPICY! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Other worlds than these Posts: 13,430	Re: New word thread So then it's not a sparkly tooth doctor? __________________ Me, The Surveyor, The Truck Driver, The Landscaper, The SAHM, The Grocery Manager, The Gamer, The Gardener, The Home Improvement Manager, and The Grandkids

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