A couple of years ago I posted a list of 10 words I wanted to start using because they were just so awesome. Here are 10 more:
1. Gallimaufry (A mixture of really different things..."Terry and I attended the Grateful Dead concert, and I was surprised to see such a gallimaufry of people.")
2. Oolet (A barn owl)
3. Foofaraw (Frills, fancy extras)
4. Quincunx (This word is almost too great for its own good. It's an arrangement of five items where you have four in the corners and one in the middle. Think of what you see when you roll a 5 on a die. That's a quincunx pattern.)
5. Irpe (Refers to a smirk or, sometimes, a way of twisting your body. "Get that irpe off your face, young man!")
6. Tintinnabulation (Tinkling, though not in the urinary sense)
7. Palimpsest (It's a manuscript or essay written over an earlier version. This word makes me slightly uneasy and I'm not sure why.)
8. Dewlap (A great word referring to a turkey's waddle – that flap of skin on their necks – but I wonder why we need it when "waddle" is itself already an outstanding word.)
9. Zazzy (Flashy or stylish. "That Jim Bob is just so zazzy!")
10. Xanthocyanopsy (A kind of color blindness in which a person can only distinguish blue and yellow. I can't imagine a time when this will come in handy, but if it ever does, I'm ready.)
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
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